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Ian A. Makey, M.D., is a cardiothoracic surgeon and transplant surgeon with the Lung Transplant Program within the Transplant Center and chair of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. His clinical interestes include making lung cancer surgery as effective and pain-free as possible, preserving the lungs with techniques such as sublobar or sleeve resections in appropriate situations, treating end-stage lung disease with lung volume reduction surgery (LVRS) or lung transplantation, improving symptoms of myasthenia gravis with robotic thymectomy, using minimally invasive surgery for benign and malignant esophageal diseases, and inventing medical devices such as "smart" chest tubes to treat pleural space problems.