AATS Expert Consensus: Early-Stage Lung Cancer

Stephen Yang, MD

Invited Discussant

Stephen C. Yang, MD is Professor of Surgery and Medical Oncology, and the Arthur B. and Patricia B. Modell Endowed Chair in Thoracic Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.  He is Vice-Chair of Professional Development for the Department of Surgery. His teaching, research and clinical service awards include: 1996 Johns Hopkins William F. Rienhoff Award for research; 1997 AATS Andrew Morrow Research Scholar; 2004 MCV Outstanding Alumnus Award; 2006 TSDA Socrates Award; 2006 STS J. Maxwell Chamberlain Award; 2008 Johns Hopkins Dean’s Award as Clinical Teacher of the Year; 2017 STSA Urschel-Mavroudis Spirit Award; 2018 Medical School Graduation Marshall; inductee of The Johns Hopkins Distinguished Teaching Society, AOA Honor Society at MCV, and ACS Academy of Master Surgeon Educators.

His clinical interests in general thoracic surgery, with emphasis in lung and esophageal cancer biology/survivorship, pectus repair, robotics surgery, geriatric thoracic surgery and enhancing the educational paradigm for medical students, residents and junior faculty.  He had developed novel techniques in lung transplantation with cadaveric lobar transplantation, and in robotic surgery.

Elected to the ABTS in 2014, he serves as Examination Chair and Editor-in-Chief of SESATS XIII and appointed to Chair the Council to develop Entrustable Professional Activities for CT surgery. He is President of the STSA, and immediate past Chair of the the Medical Student Education Committee for the ACS.  In 2019, he was elected to the ACGME RRC for Thoracic Surgery, and President-Elect of the TSDA.  He is the JTCVS Associate Editor for the education section.    

Though an empty nester now that his three children have flown the coop (and off the payroll!), he lives with his wife Marivic of 38 year in Hunt Valley, MD, and enjoys playing lounge piano music, country club tennis, “Chopped” cooking, taking care of his puppy Milo, and ballroom dancing, winner of the 2017 Dancing with the Hopkins Stars.

Matthew Bott

Abstract Presenter

Dr. Bott is a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.  After completing an undergraduate degree at Duke University, he went on to medical school at the University of Virginia and then a general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center.  During his residency he took part in a research fellowship at MSK which investigated genomic pertubations in malignant pleural mesothelioma.  Following his completion of cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, he joined the faculty of MSKCC and currently has a practice focused on thoracic surgical oncology.  He is currently the surgical director of endobronchial therapies and co-leads MSK's robotic bronchoscopy program.  He also has an active basic and translational research program which explores cellular responses to therapy in lung cancer.