Matthew Skovgard, MD

Education

Honors & Awards

• AATS Clinical Trials Methods Fellowship Course, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 2024-2025
• AATS Foundation Graham Thoracic Surgical Robotics Fellowship, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 2024-2025
• Finalist - Walton C Lillehei Forum, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, 2022
• NIH T32 Surgical Oncology Research Training Grant, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 2019-2021
• ICU Resident of the Year, New York Presbyterian | Cornell, 2018
• Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Society, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, 2016
• Gold Humanism Honor Society, GHHS (Gold Humanism Honor Society), 2016
• Tulane 34 Award, Tulane University School of Medicine, 2016

Selected Publications

1. Caso R, Zhou N, Skovgard M, Toumbacaris N, Tan KS, Adusumilli PS, Bains MS, Bott MJ, Downey RJ, Huang J, Isbell JM, Molena D, Park BJ, Rocco G, Rusch VW, Sihag S, Jones DR, Gray KD. Lobectomy improves disease-free survival over sublobar resection for high-risk stage IA non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Aug 29. View on PubMed
2. Caso R, Skovgard M, Isbell J. Nerve Injuries During Thoracic Surgery. Thorac Surg Clin. 2025 Aug; 35(3):355-364. View on PubMed
3. Bush D, Skovgard MS, Raoof S, Sideris A, Xingzhe L, Oufkir H, Curry M, Tan KS, Araujo-Filho J, Robinson E, Jones D, Ginsberg M, Rimner A, Riely G, Huang J. Mediastinum. Dec 2024. DOI: 10.21037.med-24-ab061. Long-Term Outcomes and Characteristics of Unresectable or Inoperable Thymic Malignancies. 2024. View on PubMed
4. Resio BJ, Tan KS, Skovgard M, Dycoco J, Adusumilli PS, Bains MS, Bott MJ, Downey RJ, Gray KD, Huang J, Molena D, Park BJ, Rusch VW, Sihag S, Rocco G, Jones DR, Isbell JM. Commission on Cancer Standards for Lymph Node Sampling and Oncologic Outcomes After Lung Resection. Ann Thorac Surg. 2025 Feb; 119(2):308-315. View on PubMed
5. Skovgard MS, Sihag S. Esophageal Cancer - Clinical Scenarios in Surgery. Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 9781975213343. 2024. View on PubMed
6. Quach HT, Skovgard MS, Villena-Vargas J, Bellis RY, Chintala NK, Amador-Molina A, Bai Y, Banerjee S, Saini J, Xiong Y, Vista WR, Byun AJ, De Biasi A, Zeltsman M, Mayor M, Morello A, Mittal V, Gomez DR, Rimner A, Jones DR, Adusumilli PS. Tumor-Targeted Nonablative Radiation Promotes Solid Tumor CAR T-cell Therapy Efficacy. Cancer Immunol Res. 2023 10 04; 11(10):1314-1331. View on PubMed
7. Skovgard MS, Hocine HR, Saini JK, Moroz M, Bellis RY, Banerjee S, Morello A, Ponomarev V, Villena-Vargas J, Adusumilli PS. Imaging CAR T-cell kinetics in solid tumors: Translational implications. Mol Ther Oncolytics. 2021 Sep 24; 22:355-367. View on PubMed
8. Ferguson BD, Jones GD, Skovgard M, Molena D, Huang J, Bott MJ, Sihag S, Park BJ, Adusumilli PS, Downey RJ, Isbell JM, Rusch VW, Bains MS, Jones DR, Rocco G. Is Routine Chest Radiography Necessary After Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration? Ann Thorac Surg. 2021 08; 112(2):467-472. View on PubMed
9. Mathkour M, Keen JR, Huang B, Werner C, Scullen T, Garces J, Skovgard M, Iwanaga J, Tubbs RS, Dumont A, Biro E, Bui CJ. "Two-Birds-One-Stone" Approach for Treating an Infant with Chiari I Malformation and Hydrocephalus: Is Cerebrospinal Fluid Diversion as Sole Treatment Enough? World Neurosurg. 2020 05; 137:174-177. View on PubMed
10. Sweeney J, Skovgard M, Hoda S. Iatrogenic Breast Infarct Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery With Harvesting of Left Internal Mammary Artery. Int J Surg Pathol. 2018 Jun; 26(4):330-331. View on PubMed
11. Garces J, Mathkour M, Skovgard MS, Kaufmann A, Sulaiman AR. Erb’s Palsy and Brachial Plexus Injury. Wiley-Blackwell eLS. Mar 2016. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0025818. 2016. View on PubMed

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