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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.

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ACS
ACS Fellow Since 1997

Rudy Paul Lackner, MD, FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery - Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Southwestern Surg Cong
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Thor Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Mediastinum Disorders/Procedures

  • mediastinal tumors
  • mediastinoscopy
  • Mysashtenia Gravis
  • Thymoma

Chest Wall Disorders/Procedures

Esophagus Disorders/Procedures

  • achalasia
  • Barretts Esophagus
  • Endoscopic cryotherapy
  • Esophageal discontinuity
  • Esophageal endoscopic stents
  • esophageal endoscopy
  • esophageal laser therapy
  • esophageal surgery
  • esophagectomy
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) Surgery
  • myotomy
  • Paraesophageal Hernia Repair
  • Photodynamic therapy
  • Surgery for Esophageal Dysmotility

Airway Disorders/Procedures

  • Airway laser therapy
  • Bronchoscopic Stents
  • Bronchoscopy
  • cryotherapy
  • Endobronchial ultrasound
  • Endobronchial valve placement
  • Navigational Bronchoscopy
  • photodynamic therapy
  • Tracheal malacia surgery
  • Tracheal resection and reconstruction

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

  • Empyema
  • extrapleural pneumonectomy (EPP) for mesothelioma
  • hemothorax
  • lobectomy
  • mesothelioma
  • pleural effusion
  • pulmonary disorders

Transplant - Heart & Lung

Hospital Appointments

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Omaha VA

Academic Appointments

New York Medical College

Valhalla, NY

Professor