John S. Ikonomidis, MD, PhD
Chief
Professor of Surgery
Our Team
Chapel Hill Faculty
Thomas G. Caranasos, MD
Director, Adult Cardiac Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Thomas M. Egan, MD, MSc
Professor of Surgery
Benjamin E. Haithcock, MD
Surgical Director, UNC Lung Transplant Program
Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program
Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology
Jason M. Long, MD, MPH
Co-Director, UNC Lung Cancer Screening Clinic
Associate Professor of Surgery
Gita Mody, MD, MPH
Director of Thoracic Surgical Oncology
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Sandeep Sainathan, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mahesh S. Sharma, MD
Section Chief of Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Co-director of the NC Children’s Heart Center
Associate Professor of Surgery
Paul B. Tessmann, MD, PharmD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Non-Attending Faculty
Adam Akerman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Affiliated Faculty
Raleigh, NC
Lance E. Landvater, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Robert B. Peyton, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Residents
Hadley Wilson, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 6
Catharine McDermott, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 5
Aurelie Merlo, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 4
John Espey, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 3
Audrey Khoury, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 2
Danielle O’Hara, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident | PGY 1