Dr. Jeffrey Velotta, MD, FACS is a thoracic surgeon and Director of the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mesothelioma Program and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine.  Dr. Velotta received his MD from the George Washington University School of Medicine.  He then went on to finish general surgery residency at UCLA along with a postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University and completed his cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.  Dr. Velotta’s clinical and research interests focus on outcomes after regionalization for lung, esophageal, and mesothelioma surgery as well as improving time to treatment for lung cancer.  In addition, he enjoys mentoring and training UCSF medical students and surgery residents.