Dr. Swanson is also a Senior Faculty Member (Professor) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery. His specialty is Surgery, Thoracic Surgery and his sub-specialty is Cardiothoracic Surgery. Dr. Swanson’s clinical interests are lung cancer, esophageal surgery, Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VTR), lung transplantation, and thoracic oncology. Dr. Swanson’s research interests focus on immunologic mechanisms of transplantation. He is a collaborating investigator on the Nextran/Brigham and Women’s sponsored research grant, and he is currently developing a mouse model for airway transplantation.