Joe B. Putnam

Joe B. Putnam, Jr., M.D. 1313 21st Avenue South; 609 Oxford House Nashville, TN  37232-4682 United States 1 615 343-9202 1 615 322-3079 (Fax) http://www.thoracic.vanderbilt.edu

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Institutional Affiliation

• Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Thoracic Surgery

Specialty

• General Thoracic Surgery

Background

• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (AB Honors Chemistry 1975)
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (MD 1979)
• The Johns Hopkins Hospital General Surgery Residency - Baltimore, MD (1979-1981)
• National Cancer Institute - Surgery Branch, National Institutes of Health - Bethesda, MD (1981-1984)
• University of Rochester General Surgery Residency - Rochester, NY (1984-1986)
• University of Michigan Thoracic Surgery Residency - Ann Arbor, MI (1986-1988)
• Univ Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ctr - Dept Thor and Cardiovasc Surg Faculty (1988-2004)
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Dept Thoracic Surgery Faculty (2004 - present)

Interests

• Surgery for early and advanced lung cancer
• Esophageal carcinoma and benign esophageal diseases
• Management of pulmonary metastases
• Multimodality management for lung cancer, and esophageal cancer
• Primary (and secondary) thoracic sarcomas
• Clinical outcome measures in thoracic surgery
• Malignant pleural effusions
• Isolated lung perfusion / Regional drug delivery systems
• Pleural diseases

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