Whitney S. Brandt, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
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 cancer and masses
- Esophageal diverticulum
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Hiatal hernia
- Hyperhidrosis
- Interstitial lung disease
- Lung cancer
- Lung nodules
- Lung volume reduction
- Myasthenia gravis
- Mediastinal tumors
- Paraoesophageal hernia
- Pneumothorax
- 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
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 2021-2023
Research Fellowship, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, 2016-2018
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 researching lung and esophageal cancer. I am especially interested in factors which can help improve survival for patients with thoracic malignancies. I am currently working to help understand genomic alterations associated with aggressiveness and metastatic potential of 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
Siteman Cancer Center
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.