Whitney Brandt, MD

Whitney Brandt, MD

Expertise

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
Education

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

Research

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

  1. A Genomic-Pathologic Annotated Risk Model to Predict Recurrence in Early-Stage Lung Adenocarcinoma
  2.  The Underlying Tumor Genomics of Predominant Histologic Subtypes in Lung Adenocarcinoma.
  3. A guide for managing patients with stage I NSCLC: deciding between lobectomy, segmentectomy, wedge, SBRT and ablation-part 1: a guide to decision-making
  4. Factors associated with distant recurrence following R0 lobectomy for pN0 lung adenocarcinoma
  5. Outcomes after neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for cT2-4N0-1 non-small cell lung cancer: A propensity-matched analysis
  6. Defining quality of surgical care of lung cancer patients.
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Locations

Hospital Affiliations

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Siteman Cancer Center

Patients Seen At

Center for Advanced Medicine
Jacqueline Maritz Lung Center
4921 Parkview Place, Suite B, Floor 8
St. Louis, MO 63110

Contact


To request an appointment with Dr. Brandt, please call 314-362-7260.