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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1995

Cliff Patrick Connery, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery - Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - Surgical Critical Care
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Thor Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Clinic

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Mediastinum Disorders/Procedures

  • mediastinal tumors
  • mediastinoscopy
  • Mysashtenia Gravis
  • Thymoma

Peripheral Vascular Surgery

Chest Wall Disorders/Procedures

Esophagus Disorders/Procedures

  • achalasia
  • Barretts Esophagus
  • esophageal surgery
  • esophagectomy
  • myotomy

Airway Disorders/Procedures

  • Bronchoscopic Stents
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Endobronchial ultrasound
  • Endobronchial valve placement
  • Navigational Bronchoscopy
  • Tracheal resection and reconstruction

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • Hyperhidrosis
  • Minimally invasive esophagectomy
  • minimally invasive surgery
  • robotic lobectomy
  • Robotic-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (RATS)
  • sympathectomy
  • thymectomy
  • VATS Lobectomy
  • VATS Thymectomy
  • Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS)

Lung Pleura Esophagus & Chest Wall Cancer/Tumor

  • chest tumors
  • chest wall tumors
  • chest/mediastinal cysts
  • esophageal cancer
  • lung cancer
  • mediastinal tumors
  • mediastinal tumors
  • pleural chemoperfusion
  • pleural tumors
  • thoracic oncology

Lung Pleura Disorders/Procedures

  • hemothorax
  • lobectomy
  • mesothelioma
  • microwave ablation
  • percutaneous cryotherapy
  • pleural effusion
  • pulmonary disorders
  • radiofrequency ablation
  • stereotactic body radiotherapy

Hospital Appointments

Thoracic Surgery St Luke's-Roosevelt Hosp Ctr.

Chairman

Beth Israel Medical Center

Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Poughkeepsie, NY

Director

03/2014—Present