R. Thomas Temes. M.D., MBA
Biographical Sketch
Dr. R. Thomas Temes is a staff surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and is an attending thoracic surgeon at MetroHealth Medical Center, Fairview General Hospital, Lakewood Hospital and Parma Community General Hospital, all in Cleveland, Ohio. He is board-certified in general and thoracic surgery. Dr. Temes specializes in surgery of the lung, esophagus, mediastinum, pleura and other thoracic organs. His specialty interests also include minimally invasive and general thoracic surgery. Dr. Temes is an attending thoracic surgeon at Lakewood Hospital, Fairview General Hospital, Parma Community General Hospital and MetroHealth Medical Center, all in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Temes is also Associate Professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
A native of Canada, Dr. Temes received both his undergraduate and medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He took his general surgical internship and surgical residency at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. He continued his clinical training by accepting a fellowship in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery from Washington University/Barnes Hospital in Saint Louis, Missouri, where he became the 1st General Thoracic Surgical Fellow. Dr. Temes has a Master’s in Business Administration from the James J. Nance College of Business Administration at Cleveland State University, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society. He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic as a thoracic and cardiac surgeon in 1999.
He is a tenured Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico Medical Center, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in Albuquerque. Prior to his appointment to Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Temes was an attending surgeon at several hospitals in the Albuquerque area.
He has been invited to lecture on his clinical experiences and specialty interests at national and international medical conferences as well as locally. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Missouri and Wake Forest University.
Dr. Temes’s research has focused on genetic markers for lung cancer, managing emphysema and new techniques for blood and bone marrow harvest, among other clinical studies. He has authored articles and abstracts on his research and clinical practice in peer-reviewed publications, and has authored or co-authored several chapters in medical textbooks related to his specialty interests, including surgical infections of the pericardium, late complications of thoracic surgery and organ system failure in the injured child. Dr. Temes is on the editorial board of Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Chest, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, and Surgical Laparoscopy and Endoscopy.
Dr. Temes is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, the Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.
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