Dr. Harvey Pass is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and Duke Medical School. After completing his cardiothoracic training at the Medical University of South Carolina and a year as a cardiac surgery attending physician, he devoted his career to treating thoracic malignancies including lung cancer, pulmonary metastases, esophageal cancer, and mesothelioma.

In 2005, Dr. Pass was recruited to be the first Director of the NYU Division of Thoracic Surgery. His laboratory at Bellevue Hospital is the home of the NCI-funded Early Detection Research Network Biomarker Discovery Laboratory for Mesothelioma, and the Clinical CORE for the NCI’s recently funded Mesothelioma Pathogenesis Program Project. He has solidified NYU’s 3-year Thoracic Fellowship Training Program for individuals interested in general thoracic surgery. The program trains superb surgeons and thoracic scientists for the future.

Dr. Pass serves as an Ad Hoc reviewer for publications including New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, International Journal of Cancer and Journal of Clinical Oncology. He is a vigorous advocate for patients with lung cancer and mesothelioma, serving as a Lung Cancer Alliance Board member, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. He has been awarded Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors award for the last five years.