Michael D. Lanuti received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine after receiving a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a two-year research fellowship in a Thoracic Oncology Laboratory focusing on novel treatments (gene therapy) for lung cancer. He completed a Cardiothoracic Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
He has been on staff in the Division of Thoracic Surgery since 2004 and holds a parallel appointment as an Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has been the Friedman-Lambert Scholar in Academic Thoracic Surgery at MGH/HMS since 2004. He is the Director of Thoracic Oncology for the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the Thoracic Surgery liaison to the MGH Cancer Center. Clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer, complex airway tumors, multimodality treatment of esophageal cancer, mediastinal tumors, and thermal ablation of lung tumors.