Department of Thoracic Surgery

The faculty and staff of the Department of Thoracic Surgery provide care for a broad range of diseases affecting the chest (thorax) and its contents. These include operations for diseases of the esophagus, lung, and other thoracic disorders.  Lung transplantation and operations for lung failure are also performed.  

Vanderbilt University Medical is a comprehensive health care facility dedicated to patient care, research, and the education of health care professionals. The Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center is a NIH/NCI designateds Comprehensive Cancer Center.  Its reputation for excellence in these and other areas has made Vanderbilt a major patient referral center for the Southeast and Mid-South regions of the United States. Center

Each year, over 350,000 people choose Vanderbilt for their health care needs not only because of its excellence in medical science, but also because our faculty and staff are dedicated to making patients, and their families, as comfortable as possible. Our mission- responding to today's and tomorrow's health care needs in a warm and caring environment- is carried out on a campus which continues to experience tremendous physical growth and improvements in its capacity to provide patient care.

CONTACT INFORMATION

The Department of Thoracic Surgery

1313 21st Ave South

Nashville, TN  37232 -4682

My Health at Vanderbilt

This new service called "MyHealthatVanderbilt" will offer patients the following features:

• Message provider practices with whom the patients have had, or are scheduled to have, an appointment.
• Request prescription refills
• Request non-urgent appointments
• View test results online
• View appointments, past and future
• Pay bills on-line
• Patient specific educational material customized based on individual demographics, past medical problems, medications and seasonality.
• Complete patient hisotry forms in advance of annual physicals or new patient appointments

Patients can sign up themselves for Limited Access (messaging only-no access to privileged health information):

• Patients are able to sign up remotely for Level I access by going to www.MyHealthatVanderbilt.com
• You can be anywhere - you do not have to be at Vanderbilt to sign up for this service
• The sign-up program will ask you to enter information about yourself and will then match your information and identify your medical record number

Increase Access Level by converting from limited Level I access to Full Access

• Once a patient has Limited Access, you are able to message but do not have access to personal information or the ability to pay bills
• Patients will need to show proper identification in the clinic to obtain Full Access
• Posters are placed throughout the clnics inviting patients to sign up for limited access before they leave and to request full access
• Before you leave the clinic, staff are able to confirm a patient's identity and then bump up level of access to Full Access