Andrea Wolf, MD, MPH

Andrea Wolf, MD, MPH, is Director of the NY Mesothelioma Program and Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

She graduated Cum Laude from Princeton and earned her MD and MPH from Harvard University, before training in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and cardiothoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital before assuming her current role as attending surgeon at Mount Sinai in New York. 

She has expertise in surgery for pleural mesothelioma and VATS lobectomy and research interests in mesothelioma, health care disparities, and lung cancer. She is the Chair of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Wellness Committee, and has served as medical director for 3 elite marathons, in which the women’s winner went to the Paris Olympics in 2024 and one man broke the Austrian National Record.

She and her team at the NY Mesothelioma Program received the 2020 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Care Team Award. The ADAO awarded Dr. Wolf the Irving J. Selikoff Award in 2022.

She has presented at numerous national and international meetings, is co-editor of the third and upcoming fourth editions of Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery and has published extensively on pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer. She has one son and loves to run.