275. Surgery Versus Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Early-Stage Lung Cancer in Healthy Patients who Refused a Recommended Surgery

Andrea Wolf is Director of the NY Mesothelioma Program and Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.  She graduated Cum Laude from Princeton and earned highest honors at Harvard Medical School. She served as Chief Resident in Surgery at the MGH and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she completed a Thoracic Oncology Research Fellowship while earning her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health.  She has expertise in surgery for pleural mesothelioma and VATS lobectomy, and research interests in mesothelioma, health care disparities, and lung cancer.  She and her team at the NY Mesothelioma Program received the 2020 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Care Team Award and she was honored with the 2022 Absestos Disease Awareness Organization Irving J. Selikoff Award. She has presented at numerous national and international meetings, is co-editor of the third edition of Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery and has published extensively on pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer.  She loves to run and has one son, who is a superhero.

Dr. Udelsman is currently a traditional fellow in the Yale University CT Surgery program in New Haven, CT. He completed his general surgery residency at MGH and is general surgery board-certified. He earned his medical degree and master’s in health sciences at Yale University School of Medicine after graduating cum laude from Williams College with a B.A. in English Literature and Chemistry. 

Dr. Udelsman’s research work has evolved alongside his interests and career plans; as a result, he has experience in a diverse array of clinical research topics and techniques, from bench side vascular tissue engineering to large database analysis. During residency, he focused on clinical research in Thoracic Surgery and Surgical Palliative Care. He is now continuing this work in fellowship and plans to continue to do so as an academic thoracic surgeon.