Cynthia Chin, MD

Dr. Cynthia Chin serves as a Thoracic surgeon and Director of the Women's Cancer Program Services at White Plains Hospital. Born and raised in Westchester County, she relocated her clinical practice in 2012 from Mount Sinai Medical Center, where she served as the Director of the Women's Lung Cancer Treatment Program, to White Plains.

At White Plains Hospital, Dr. Chin continues her commitment to provide exceptional clinical care to her patients, bringing her extensive experience in treating both benign and malignant conditions of the chest and its structures to our community. Using minimally invasive video-assisted techniques (VATS) in the treatment of cancers of the lung, esophagus, and thymus as well as myasthenia gravis, her patients recover faster, have minimal pain and fewer complications, and resume active, functional lives more quickly.

Dr. Chin earned her medical degree with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She completed her General Surgery residency at St. Vincent's Hospital, formerly in Manhattan. During this training, she devoted two years as a Surgical Oncology Research Fellow at the Medical College of Virginia studying the interactions of the human immune system with cancers.

Following her General Surgery training, Dr. Chin completed Fellowship training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan, and then further refined her skill and expertise as the Clinical Fellow in Thoracic Surgery at University of Pittsburgh, where she received advanced specialty training in the minimally invasive surgical management of esophageal cancer.

After completing her training, Dr. Chin was appointed Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center where she established a busy practice prior to relocating to White Plains.

In addition to providing exceptional care to her patients, Dr. Chin has published scholarly work in numerous well respected medical journals and has contributed to textbooks on minimally invasive surgery of the chest. Her most recent publications include two chapters, one entitled Treatment of Multiple Lung Cancers and the other, Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Metastases. Both are published in 2011 Cardiothoracic Surgery Review. She has also contributed video chapters to The Atlas of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, which is widely respected as a resource for Thoracic surgeons seeking advanced knowledge in state-of-the-art Thoracic surgical techniques.

"White Plains Hospital is a state-of-the-art facility, offering advanced technology and highly skilled clinicians in every major discipline. In many ways, I believe White Plains is superior to larger institutions because we are close to home but have with the capability of performing the same technically advanced surgeries one expects of larger academic centers. We can provide that same exceptional level of care due, in large part, to the fantastic teamwork provided by our unique group of the nurses, anesthesiologists, and intensive care physicians." —Dr. Cynthia Chin

Todd Weiser, MD

Sean Kwon, MD is a skilled and highly experienced thoracic surgeon with extensive expertise in minimally invasive video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and robotic thoracic surgery. He holds board certification from the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the International College of Angiology and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Most recently, Dr. Kwon was at the North Shore-LIJ Health System (now Northwell Health) where he was an attending Thoracic Surgeon since 2010, an Assistant Program Director, and an Assistant Professor at Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and completed his general surgery residency at Tufts/Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA; his residency in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento; and a Thoracic Oncology Surgery Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.

Dr. Kwon holds numerous other professional and society memberships, including the American College of Chest Physicians, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the Korean American Medical Association. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Angiology. He is the lead or co-author on articles in a number of peer-reviewed medical journals and has delivered lectures on research as well as clinical aspects of cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Kwon is fluent in Korean.

Sean Kwon, MD

Dr. Todd Weiser is the Chief of the Cardiothoracic Department at White Plains Hospital. A native New Yorker, Dr. Weiser joined the Division of Thoracic Surgery at White Plains Hospital Center in 2011 as Director of Thoracic Surgery, bringing state-of-the-art Thoracic surgery to the people of Westchester County and creating a destination service for the highest quality thoracic care. Dr. Weiser's main clinical interest is the surgical treatment of diseases and conditions of the chest and chest wall, specializing in surgical management of the trachea (airway) and minimally invasive treatment of lung cancer.

Dr. Weiser believes, "There is no need to add the burden of travel in order to receive the best possible cancer treatment. No institution in the area is better suited to deliver patients the outcomes they deserve." Dr. Weiser's expertise is not limited to treating patients with cancers of the chest however. Currently, he is the only surgeon in New York performing video-assisted, minimally invasive (VATS) implantation of diaphragmatic pacemakers in patients with spinal cord injury and muscular dystrophies, relieving these these patients of their dependence upon ventilators to breathe.

Prior to becoming Director of Thoracic Surgery at White Plains, Dr. Weiser served on the staff of The Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan as an Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon and as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. During his general surgery training at Saint Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in New York City, Dr. Weiser also completed a two-year Research Fellowship in Surgical Oncology at the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. Subsequently, he completed a Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Weiser's work on lung cancer immunology at the National Cancer Institute has been presented at national meetings and published in peer-reviewed journals. In addition, he has authored chapters on the topics of the surgical management of tracheal diseases and airway obstruction in two authoritative textbooks, Thoracic Surgery and Sabiston's & Spencer's Surgery of the Chest. In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Weiser plays an active role as a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, serving the Society in several capacities, including as a clinical course instructor to other Thoracic surgeons, teaching the newest and most innovative procedures. He also serves the Society on its national General Thoracic Surgery Database Taskforce, enabling him to have a direct impact in improving the quality of thoracic surgical care throughout the country.