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About Henning Gaissert, MD
Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Dr. Gaissert served his internship and residency in Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Barnes-Jewish Hospital and his fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He led the Section of Thoracic Surgery at Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital for 5 years before returning to MGH. Dr. Gaissert is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians. His clinical interests are lung cancer, esophageal cancer, tracheal disease and surgical reconstruction of complex swallowing disorders.
Clinical Interests:
- Chest wall tumors
- Emphysema and Volume reduction surgery
- Esophageal cancer
- Hyperhidrosis
- Lung cancer
- Thymoma and surgical treatment of myasthenia gravis
- Tracheobronchial disorders
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- French, German
Locations
Mass General Surgery: Thoracic Surgery
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2100
Newton-Wellesley Hospital: Thoracic Surgery
2014 Washington St
3rd Floor
Newton, MA 02462
Phone: 617-243-6447
Mass General Thoracic Surgery at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center
8 Prospect St.
Nashua, NH 03060
Phone: 603-577-2000
Medical Education
- MD, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
- Residency, Barnes Jewish Hospital
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Barnes Jewish Hospital
- Fellowship, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Surgery, American Board of Surgery
- Thoracic Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Recent Publications:
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Madariaga MLL, et al., Gaissert HA. Pulmonary Artery Resection During Lung Resection for Malignancy. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019;108:1692-1700.
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Crabtree TD, et al., Gaissert HA. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database: 2019 Update on Research. Ann Thorac Surg. 2019;108:1293-1298.
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Udelsman BV, et al., Gaissert HA. Incidence, aetiology and outcomes of major postoperative haemorrhage after pulmonary lobectomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2020;57:462-470.
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Madariaga ML, et al., Gaissert HA. Multidisciplinary selection of pulmonary nodules for surgical resection: Diagnostic results and long-term outcomes. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020;159:1558-1566.
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Udelsman BV, et al., Gaissert HA. Concordance of Clinical and Pathologic Nodal Staging in Resectable Lung Cancer. Ann Thorac Surg. 2021;111:1125-1132.
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Madariaga ML, et al., Gaissert HA. Evaluation of release maneuvers after airway reconstruction. Ann Thorac Surg, 2021:S0003-4975(21)00453-7.
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Best TD, et al., Gaissert HA*, Fintelmann FJ*. Multilevel Body Composition Analysis on Chest Computed Tomography Predicts Hospital Length of Stay and Complications After Lobectomy for Lung Cancer: A Multicenter Study. Ann Surg. 2020 Jul 8. Epub ahead of print. *Equal contribution.
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