Wissam N. Raad MD is a minimally invasive Attending Thoracic Surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Roosevelt and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospitals. He holds an academic appointment as an Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Raad was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He received his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He also completed basic surgical training at the Royal college of Surgeons (UK & Ireland) and is a Member of the Royal College (MRCS). He then relocated to the United States and completed an ACGME accredited General Surgery residency training program at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Connecticut, a Yale University School of Medicine teaching hospital. He also undertook a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT. Following completion of general surgery training, he completed an ACGME-Accredited Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery fellowship training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Program.
Dr. Raad’s area of interest and specialty is Minimally invasive Thoracic Surgery. He specializes in minimally invasive approaches to benign and malignant thoracic surgical disease and in the use of Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VATS) and the Da Vinci Robot to perform minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to the management of thoracic malignancies involving pulmonary medicine, medical oncology, radiation oncology, critical care, and gastroenterology. More importantly, Dr. Raad is passionate about providing care to patients and their families with empathy, dignity, and respect while honoring autonomy when discussing medical treatments and decisions.
Dr. Raad is involved in translational research and in resident and medical student education. His current research focus and interest includes surgical costs and quality outcomes, development of clinical trials, and translation of bench observation to potential clinical applications. He co-authored several publications and he has been invited to present his research findings at national and international meetings. Dr. Raad is also heavily involved at Dr. Bhora’s research lab in regenerative medicine, including 3-D printing of the trachea, stem cells, and investigating novel mutations with predictive response to chemotherapy and radiation in lung cancer.
Dr. Raad is active in several societies and organizations including the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), the New York General Thoracic Surgical Club, and the Royal College of Surgeons.
