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Thoracic Surgeon Thomas Andrew d’Amato, M.D., Ph.D. has joined the Department of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia.

Dr. d’Amato has also been named Assistant Professor of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. He will focus his clinical practice on general thoracic and foregut surgery with a primary emphasis in thoracic oncology.

Prior to joining Jefferson, Dr. d’Amato served as voluntary clinical assistant professor of surgery from 2001 to 2006 at the University of California, San Diego. During this time, he also served as staff cardiothoracic surgeon, Department of Surgery, Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, Calif. from 2002 to 2005. He served as staff cardiothoracic surgeon, U.S. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, from 1999 to 2002.

Dr. d’Amato completed a residency in general surgery at Eastern Virginia Graduate School of Medicine in Norfolk, Va., in 1995 and in thoracic surgery from Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh in 1999. He subsequently completed a fellowship in advanced minimally invasive thoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

A board-certified general and thoracic surgeon, Dr. d’Amato has conducted extensive research on heart failure and minimally invasive thoracic surgery.

Dr. d’Amato is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group and the Cancer and Leukemia Group B.

Dr. d’Amato has served as a guest editor for the ASAIO Journal, American Society for Artificial Organs and Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He has been an invited lecturer at medical meetings nationwide and has authored and co-authored several articles, abstracts and book chapters.

Dr. d’Amato served as Ships Surgeon in the United States Navy aboard the USS Enterprise and also worked at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, VA from 1995 to 1996. As a Commander in the Medical Corps, he served as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Naval Medical Center San Diego and a Casualty Receiving Surgeon aboard the USNS Mercy from 1999 to 2002.

A Jefferson alumnus, Dr. d’Amato received a doctor of medicine degree from Jefferson Medical College in 1990. He received a Ph.D. in biology from the State University of New York in Binghamton in 1986 and a bachelor of science degree in microbiology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1980.