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Dr. Flores is a board-certified thoracic surgeon and Assistant Member at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York; an Assistant Attending Surgeon at Memorial Hospital, New York and an Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill College, Cornell University, New York. Previously, Dr. Flores was a recipient of prestigious fellowships at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he received the Thoracic Oncology Clinical Research Fellowship for Intraoperative Chemotherapy, Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer. Dr. Flores is well-known for having compiled one of the largest mesothelioma patient databases to research areas of failure, and to determine how to improve treatments. His other areas of expertise include minimally invasive thoracic surgery (thoracoscopy); VATS lobectomy; lung cancer screening; tracheobronchial resection; extrapleural pneumonectomy for mesothelioma; intraoperative chemotherapy; lymph-node mapping; esophageal cancer, and Belsey repair. Dr. Flores is also a frequent lecturer and presenter on the diagnosis, treatment and management of mesothelioma and lung cancer. He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. | 