Dr. Bott is a thoracic surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. After completing an undergraduate degree at Duke University, he went on to medical school at the University of Virginia and then a general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medical Center. During his residency he took part in a research fellowship at MSK which investigated genomic pertubations in malignant pleural mesothelioma.
Following his completion of cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015, he joined the faculty of MSKCC and currently has a practice focused on thoracic surgical oncology. He is currently the surgical director of endobronchial therapies and co-leads MSK's robotic bronchoscopy program. He also has an active basic and translational research program which explores cellular responses to therapy in lung cancer.