Research Program: Genetic Mechanisms of Cancer
Professor and Chief, Division of Thoracic and Foregut Surgery
Program Director, General Surgery
Garamella Lynch Jensen Chair in Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery
Co-Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery Center

madda001@umn.edu
612-625-0998 — office
Preferred method of contact: Assistant Sara Kloepper, 5-0998 or kloep004@umn.edu

Dr. Maddaus' clinical profile
(University of Minnesota Physicians Web site)

• M.D., University of Minnesota, 1982
• Residency, University of Minnesota, 1982-1990
• Fellowship,University of Toronto, Thoracic Surgery, 1990-1991

Research Interests

1. Thoracic oncology
2. Impact of lung cancer lymph node micrometastases on outcome
3. Minimally invasive surgery in cancer

Selected Publications

Hoang CD, Guillame TJ, Engel SC, Tawfic SH, Kratzke, RA, Maddaus MA. Analysis of paired primary lung and lymph node tumor cells: A model of metastatic potential by multiple genetic programs. Cancer Detect Prev. 2005;29:509-517.

Whitson BA, Jacobsen B, Frizelle S, Patel MR, Yee D, Maddaus MA, and Kratzke RA. The effects of insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor inhibition in mesothelioma. Ann Thorac Surg. 2006;82:996-1001.

Whitson BA, Hoang CD, Jie T, and Maddaus MA. Technology-enhanced interactive surgical education. J Surg Res. 2006;136:13-8.

Maddaus, MA, D'Cunha J. The use of real-time polymerase chain reaction in thoracic malignancies. Thorac Surg Clin. 2006;16:345-352.

Whitson BA, Hoang CD, Boettcher AK, Dahlberg PS, Andrade RS and Maddaus MA. Wedge gastroplasty and reinforced crural repair: important components of laparoscopic giant or recurrent hiatal hernia repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2006;132:1196-1202.e3.

Whitson BA, Runge SJ, Groth SS, Maddaus MA. False-positive mediastinal lymph node activity on positron emission tomographic scan after adjuvant treatment of gynecologic malignancies. J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg. 2007;133:1385-1386.

Groth SS, Maddaus MA. Open lobectomy for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer. Thorac Surg Clin. 2007;17: 203-215.

Whitson BA, Groth SS, Maddaus MA. Surgical assessment and intraoperative management of mediastinal lymph nodes in non-small lung cancer. Ann Thorac Surg. 2007;84:1059-1065.

Whitson BA, Andrade RS, Boettcher A, Bardales R, Kratzke RA, Dahlberg PS, Maddaus MA. Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery is less morbid than thoracotomy for resection of clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer. Ann Thoracic Surg. 2007;83:1965-1970.

Whitson BA, Groth SS, Maddaus MA. Recommendations for optimal use of imaging studies to clinically stage Mmediastial lymph nodes in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Lung Cancer. 2008 Feb 14; (Epub ahead of print).

Whitson BA, Groth SS, Andrade RS, Garrett L, Dudek AZ, Jessurun J, Maddaus MA. Extension of Survival by Resection of Asynchronous Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastases to Mediastinal Lymph Nodes. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008 May; 135(5): 1022-8.