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Shanda H. Blackmon, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Professor of Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Shanda H. Blackmon, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, is a minimally invasive thoracic surgeon and holds the Olga Keith Weiss Endowed Chair of Surgery III for Baylor in Houston, Texas. She completed CT Surgery Residency at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston. She compleyed an advanced fellowship in thoracic surgical oncology at MDACC, until she was recruited as Chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital for eight years. She was then recruited to become Professor of Thoracic Surgery within the Department of Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She holds several patents in thoracic surgery. She developed the UDD App & DELiVER Clinic, which is a virtual patient management platform. She served as the Medical Director of Mayo Clinic Consumer Digital Platform within the Center for Digital Health, and later Medical Director for User Experience. Her new position is Executive Director of the Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute and Tenured Professor in Surgery for Baylor College of Medicine. She is dual board-certified by ABS & ABTS. Dr. Blackmon has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts & editorials, given over 300 oral presentations, is internationally recognized and has published more than 100 instructional videos (@ShandaBlackmon for Twitter & https://www.youtube.com/c/ShandaBlackmon/videos). She is a former Deputy Editor for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. She is the Past-President of Women in Thoracic Surgery, awardee of the Extraordinary Woman in Cardiothoracic Surgery, former Secretary/Treasurer of TSF, current Treasurer of STSA, and served as a a member of the Board of Directors and Council Chair for STS. At the last STS meeting, she won the Extraordinary Woman in Cardiothoracic Surgery Award from STS & WTS. She now serves STS as the Director of the Nina Starr Braunwald Center within STS. Dr. Blackmon is the author of “The Support Group,” by Mayo Clinic Press.

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