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Ara Vaporciyan, M.D.
Mesothelioma Doctor: Ara Vaporciyan (TX) / Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas / Physician, Treatments
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Ara Vaporciyan, M.D.
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Dr. Vaporciyan was born in Detroit, Michigan.
He attended the Honors College at the University of Michigan from 1982 to 1985 where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology.
He received his M.D. degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1989 and began his General Surgery residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Texas.
In the midst of this residency he took two years to also complete a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School.
His general surgery training was completed in 1996 upon which he began his cardiothoracic training at the combined UT M. D. Anderson/Texas Heart Institute residency.
Upon completion in 1998 he joined the faculty at UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery as an Assistant Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Surgery.
Dr. Vaporciyan is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
He is also a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American Thoracic Society and a member of the Texas Medical Association.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Vaporciyan's clinic interests include thoracic malignancies, specifically lung and esophageal cancer as well as mesothelioma, cardiac tumors, tumors metestatic to the lung and primary chest wall and mediastinal tumors.
Dr. Vaporciyan also provides vascular surgery services for extremity and abdominal operations performed at M. D. Anderson.
Research Interests
Dr. Vaporciyan's research interests are centered on acute pulmonary injury.
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