Thoracic Oncology: The Treatment of Lung Disease

Dr. Raez acquired his medical degree at Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. He completed his internship and residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital/VAMC, University of Miami School of Medicine in Internal Medicine. He also completed his hematology/oncology residency at Jackson Memorial, Sylvester Cancer Center.

Dr. Raez is board certified in medical oncology, internal medicine and geriatrics. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP).

Dr. Raez is a lung cancer expert with national and international recognition, he is a researcher with expertise in phase I-III clinical trials, some of them developed by him. For this he has been awarded the Career Development Award by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He has published a Lung Cancer Book and he has published more than 60 peer review papers and present regularly at national and international meetings.

Dr. Block has practiced general thoracic surgery since completing his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis in 1997. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Yale University and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Chicago. He also received fellowship training in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute.

Before coming to Memorial Healthcare System, Dr. Block practiced general thoracic surgery as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and then at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he was also the director of the Thoracic Oncology Working Group.

Dr. Block holds certifications from the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians, and is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Society and the General Thoracic Surgery Club. He has published more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals and been an invited contributor to several authoritative textbooks on thoracic surgery.

Dr. Tarrazzi is board certified in general and thoracic surgery. He completed a fellowship in advanced thoracic and minimally invasive surgery at the Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pennsylvania. He completed his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami, and his general surgery residency with Pinnacle Health System in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tarrazzi received his degree in medicine and surgery from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas, Venezuela.