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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2007

Shanda Blackmon, MD, MPH, FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery - Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Thor Surg
  • Southwestern Surg Cong
  • Southern Thor Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Clinic

General Surgery

Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute 7200 Cambridge Street, Suite 6A

McNair Building 6A

Houston, TX 77030

United States

Contact Information

Biography

My practice is limited to Thoracic disorders, which include but are not limited to Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Mediastinal disease, and benign disorders of the chest. With the goal of being the least invasive possible, I perform bronschoscopy, esophagogastroduodenoscopy, EBUS, EMR, endoluminal procedures, VATS lobectomy, Minimally invasive esophagectomy, and Superdimension Bronchus System navigational bronchoscopy to biopsy lung tumors without surgery. Our division offers clinical trials in lung, mediastinal, and esophageal disease. I can easily be contacted for questions and am always available.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • cryotherapy
  • endoscopic surgery
  • fine needle aspiration/biopsy
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • laser surgery
  • tumor ablation
  • video assisted thoracic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • chest tumors
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors

Thoracic

  • achalasia
  • Barrett's esophagus
  • empyema
  • esophageal surgery
  • hemothorax
  • hiatal hernia
  • lobectomy
  • myotomy
  • pleural effusion
  • pneumothorax
  • pulmonary disorders
  • respiratory failure

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • chest injuries

Hospital Appointments

The Methodist Hospit

Attending

Academic Appointments

Weill Cornell Medical College

Assistant Professor