Biographical summary
Ian A. Makey, M.D., is a cardiothoracic surgeon with a specialty interest in general thoracic surgery.
His clinical focus includes:
- Making lung cancer surgery as effective and pain-free as possible
- Preserving the lungs with techniques such as sublobar or sleeve resections in appropriate situations
- Treating end-stage lung disease with lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) or lung transplantation
- Improving symptoms of myasthenia gravis with robotic thymectomy
- Using minimally invasive surgery for benign and malignant esophageal diseases
- Inventing medical devices such as "smart" chest tubes to treat pleural space problems
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
Interests
- Robotic lobectomy
- Robotic segmentectomy for lung cancer
- Lingulectomy
- Right upper lobe segmentectomy
- Tracheobronchoplasty
- Lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS)
- Lung transplantation
- Decortication for trapped lung / fibrothorax
- Robotic thymectomy for myasthenia gravis and thymoma
Mayo Clinic locations
Jacksonville, Florida
Education
- 2013
Fellowship - CardiothoracicHarvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 2011
Residency - General SurgeryHarvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 2007
Internship - SurgeryCedars-Sinai Medical Center
- 2006
MDTulane University
- 2000
BS - PhysicsMillsaps College
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2014
Thoracic and Cardiac SurgeryAmerican Board of Thoracic Surgery
- 2012
General SurgeryAmerican Board of Surgery
Awards and honors
- 2020
Innovation AwardOffice of Entrepreneurship
- 2013
2nd Place Poster PresentationAmerican Association for Thoracic Surgery
- 2011
ABSITE AwardDepartment of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 2008
ABSITE AwardDepartment of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- 2006
Sam McCool Excellence in Surgery AwardTulane University School of Medicine
- 2006
History of Medicine Society Tulane University School of Medicine
- 2000
Graduated Cum LaudeMillsaps College
Professional memberships
- 2020 - present
Active MemberECMO Team, Mayo Clinic in Florida
- 2020 - present
Innovation Group LeadDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- 2016 - present
MemberSouthwestern Oncology Group
- 2016 - present
MemberSouthern Thoracic Surgical Association
- 2015 - 2016
ChiefSmall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Team, United States Air Force
- 2004 - present
MemberSociety of Thoracic Surgeons