Lawrence Schmetterer, MD
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Schmetterer MD
550 Parmalee Ave Ste 300
Youngstown, OH 44510
About
After general surgery residency, I entered my cardiothoracic fellowship which brought me to Los Angeles for two years. I completed my training in 1992 and accepted a position to practice heart, lung and vascular surgery at Northside Hospital and St. Elizabeth’s in Youngstown, and have since expanded my practice to other hospitals in the Mahoning Valley. Perhaps due to my family’s involvement with vascular disease, my interest in limb salvage surgery developed further. I was fortunate to learn from leaders in this field and have employed these advanced techniques in my practice. My practice in treating diseases of the chest, most notably, lung cancer, has been extremely rewarding. I have had the great experience to follow many patients who are long term cancer survivors, some over twenty years since their surgery.
For the past 26 years, I have cared for people who live in my community. While my original childhood inspiration came from a titan of cardiovascular surgery, my daily motivation is to pursue what I love: fixing people and making them better so that they can enjoy all that life has to offer in our Valley. Whether it is bike riding along the Ohio Pyle River, walking through Mill Creek Park, attending a 50th wedding anniversary or attacking the cookie table at a wedding, good health is necessary to enjoy these activities to their fullest. I consider it a deep honor and privilege to be trusted and allowed to care for members of my community.
Provides services in the following areas:
Thoracic Disease
Diseases that occur in the lungs, esophagus or chest.
Mediastinal Disease
Growths or conditions that occur within the middle part of the chest outside of the heart, lungs and esophagus.
Venous Disease
Conditions in which veins become diseased or abnormal.
Arterial Disease
A circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs or organs.
Lawrence Schmetterer, MD
Dr. Lawrence Schmetterer MD FACS Thoracic & Vascular Surgery has provided health care services for over 26 years in Ohio surrounding near Youngstown. My hard work lead to undergraduate studies at Duke University and Oxford, then medical school at the University of Illinois in Chicago with research in cardiac disease and a residency in General Surgery. Two additional years were spent at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda where my experience deepened in cardiovascular and lung physiology. I was given the opportunity to perform original laboratory research in pulmonary vascular function and collaborated with scientists at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and George Washington University who shared a common interest. During this time, my father required carotid artery surgery and coronary bypass surgery, both events spurring my desire to treat these diseases. He later suffered greatly from peripheral vascular disease, again, pushing me forward to treat others with this affliction. My experience in thoracic surgical oncology at the University of Illinois and a close family member with lung cancer also fueled my desire to pursue the surgical treatment of lung cancer.After general surgery residency, I entered my cardiothoracic fellowship which brought me to Los Angeles for two years. I completed my training in 1992 and accepted a position to practice heart, lung and vascular surgery at Northside Hospital and St. Elizabeth’s in Youngstown, and have since expanded my practice to other hospitals in the Mahoning Valley. Perhaps due to my family’s involvement with vascular disease, my interest in limb salvage surgery developed further. I was fortunate to learn from leaders in this field and have employed these advanced techniques in my practice. My practice in treating diseases of the chest, most notably, lung cancer, has been extremely rewarding. I have had the great experience to follow many patients who are long term cancer survivors, some over twenty years since their surgery.
For the past 26 years, I have cared for people who live in my community. While my original childhood inspiration came from a titan of cardiovascular surgery, my daily motivation is to pursue what I love: fixing people and making them better so that they can enjoy all that life has to offer in our Valley. Whether it is bike riding along the Ohio Pyle River, walking through Mill Creek Park, attending a 50th wedding anniversary or attacking the cookie table at a wedding, good health is necessary to enjoy these activities to their fullest. I consider it a deep honor and privilege to be trusted and allowed to care for members of my community.
Provides services in the following areas:
Thoracic Disease
Diseases that occur in the lungs, esophagus or chest.
Mediastinal Disease
Growths or conditions that occur within the middle part of the chest outside of the heart, lungs and esophagus.
Venous Disease
Conditions in which veins become diseased or abnormal.
Arterial Disease
A circulatory condition in which narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the limbs or organs.
Primary Specialty
Surgeon
Gender
Male
Education
Univ Of Il Coll Of Med, Chicago Il 60680
Training
Hosp Of The Good Samaritan, Thoracic Surgery; Univ Il Coll Of Med, General Surgery; Clinical Ctr At The Nih, Cardiovascular Surgery
Services
Thoracic Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Arterial Disease Treatment, Temporal Artery Biopsy, Advanced Minimally Invasive Limb Salvage, Atherectomy Procedure, Balloon Angioplasty Procedure,
Arterial Bypass Surgery Procedure, Carotid Endarterectomy Procedure, Aneurysm Repair Procedure, Mediastinoscopy Procedure Additional Services Vascular Surgeon, Vein Specialist, Cardiovascular Surgeon
Arterial Bypass Surgery Procedure, Carotid Endarterectomy Procedure, Aneurysm Repair Procedure, Mediastinoscopy Procedure Additional Services Vascular Surgeon, Vein Specialist, Cardiovascular Surgeon
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