Abby White MD

Dr. Abby White, DO, is an Associate Surgeon in the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Instructor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Dr. White received her medical degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2008. She then completed a general surgery residency at Christiana Care in Delaware. After completing fellowship in Thoracic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, she joined the Division as an Associate Surgeon. While completing her fellowship at BWH, her research interests focused on clinical outcomes research in minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer and novel techniques in video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for lung cancer. Dr. White is the first osteopathic physician to join the Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Dr. White’s primary interests include the biology of early stage and micro-invasive lung cancer, multimodality therapy for esophageal cancer, video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), minimally-invasive esophageal surgery, anti-reflux surgery, thymoma and thymic cancer.