Whitney Brandt, MD
Specialty Areas
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery
Common Diagnoses Treated
- Achalasia
- Adult pectus excavatum
- Airway obstruction
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Benign esophagus strictures
- Chest wall tumors
- Cystic fibrosis
- Empysema
- Esophageal tumors
- Esophageal diverticulum
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Hiatal hernia
- Hyperhidrosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung cancer
- Lung nodules
- Lung volume reduction
- Myasthenia gravis
- Mediastinal tumors
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Thoracic trauma
- Tracheal disease
- Tracheal tumors
Board Certifications
General Surgery
Degrees
Medical School: Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, 2014
Residency
General Surgery Residency, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, 2014-2016, 2018, 2021
Fellowship
Research Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2016-2018
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2021-2023
Professional Memberships
Association of Women’s Surgeons
Reviewer, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgery
Awards and Honors
2021, Samuel Harvey Award for Outstanding Performance as Chief Resident, Yale New Haven Hospital
Areas of Research Interest
I am interested in evaluating factors which can help improve survival for patients with thoracic malignancies. Currently, I am building a translational laboratory here at Washington University which is dedicated to understanding various genomic alterations associated with aggressiveness and metastatic potential for lung cancer.
Financial Disclosures
None
Publications
- A Genomic-Pathologic Annotated Risk Model to Predict Recurrence in Early-Stage Lung Adenocarcinoma
- The Underlying Tumor Genomics of Predominant Histologic Subtypes in Lung Adenocarcinoma.
- A guide for managing patients with stage I NSCLC: deciding between lobectomy, segmentectomy, wedge, SBRT and ablation-part 1: a guide to decision-making
- Factors associated with distant recurrence following R0 lobectomy for pN0 lung adenocarcinoma
- Outcomes after neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for cT2-4N0-1 non-small cell lung cancer: A propensity-matched analysis
- Defining quality of surgical care of lung cancer patients.
Hospital Affiliations
Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Patients Seen At
Siteman Cancer Center at 4500 Forest Park Avenue
4500 Forest Park Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108
Floor: 5th
To request an appointment with Dr. Brandt, please call 314-362-7260.