Thoracic Surgery
Larry Kaiser, MD, FACS
Specialties
Thoracic Surgery,
Heart and Lung Transplantation
Distinctions
about me
offices
publications
Clinical Interests
- Lung cancer
- Mediastinal tumors
- Mesothelioma
- Myasthenia gravis
Education
- MD, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
Training
- Fellowship (Research), Surgical Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
- Residency, Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Residency, Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Residency, Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Board Certification
- Surgery
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Memberships
- American Association for Thoracic Surgery
- American College of Chest Physicians
- American College of Physician Executives
- American College of Radiology
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- American Surgical Association
- American Thoracic Society
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Fleischner Society
- General Thoracic Surgical Biology Club
- General Thoracic Surgical Club
- Halsted Society
- Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine
- Longmire Surgical Society
- Society of Clinical Surgery
- Society of Surgical Oncology
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- Society of University Surgeons
- Surgical Biology Club II
- Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia
- Friends of National Library of Medicine
- John Morgan Society
- Penn Club
- Pennsylvania Medical Society
- Philadelphia Academy of Surgery
- Mental Health Task Force
- Texas Surgical Society
Awards and Honors
- Best Doctors in America®, Thoracic Surgery, 2017-2018, 2019-2020
- Top Doctors, Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery, Philadelphia magazine
- Best Doctors in America, Northeast Region
- World Class Doc, Philadelphia Magazine
- Top Doctor in America, American Health
- Guide to America’s Top Surgeons, Consumers Research Council of America
- Tulane Medical Alumni Association Award
- Merck Manual Award, Tulane University School of Medicine
- University of Pennsylvania Department of Surgery Faculty Teaching Award
- Who’s Who in America
- Who’s Who in the World
- Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- I.S. Ravdin Master Clinician Award, Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence, UPenn School of Medicine
- First Prize in the Surgery Category of the British Medical Association Book Awards for Operative Thoracic Surgery
- Operative Thoracic Surgery Winner in Category of Scholarly Academic Reference Books at the PBIF British Book Design and Production Awards
- University of Houston’s McGovern Award and Lecture
Temple Lung Center
Temple University Hospital – Main Campus
3401 N. Broad Street
Ambulatory Care Center, 5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Phone: 800-TEMPLE-MED
Fax: 215-707-6867