James Stuart Allan, MD
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Dover, NH
- Salem, MA
Dr. Allan is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He has a full-time faculty appointment at Harvard Medical School. His clinical interests include the surgical management of benign and malignant diseases of the lungs and esophagus (including lung cancer and esophageal cancer) and palmar hyperhidrosis. Dr. Allan is the Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and the Assoc. Chief of Thoracic Surgery at Salem Hospital.
Dr. Allan is an NIH-funded investigator in the area of lung transplantation, and has won numerous grants and awards for his research. His current efforts focus on developing strategies to promote the long-term acceptance of transplanted organs without the need for immunosuppression. He is extensively published in the fields of human physiology, thoracic surgery, and transplantation, with special expertise in use of large-animal models in cardiothoracic transplantation.
Dr. Allan has held leadership positions in several national societies in the areas of transplantation and health policy, and is a Past-President of the American Society of Transplantation. He also chairs protocol review for the MGH Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Thoracic Surgery, 1998
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, Research Fellow.-Transplant/Immunology, 1996
- Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital, General Surgery, 1995
- Internship: Massachusetts General Hospital, General Surgery, 1991
- Medical Education: Harvard Medical School, 1990
Board Certifications
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery
- Surgery (General Surgery), American Board of Surgery
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Aetna
- WellSense
- Cigna
- Medicaid ME
- Coventry
- MassHealth
- WellSense NH
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Federal
- Medicare
- Medicaid NY
- United Health Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Beech Street
- Multiplan
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Maine Community Health Options
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Tufts Health Plan
- Medicare ACO
- WellCare
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid VT
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- TriCare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Health
- Martin's Point
- Railroad Medicare
- Medicaid RI
- Humana
- Meridian Health Plan
- Senior Whole Health
- NH Healthy Families
- Blue Cross Blue Shield ME
- Blue Cross Blue Shield NH