Fellowships	UNC Hospitals, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery Yale-New Haven Hospital, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Professional Experience	Clinical Instructor, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Houston, Texas Clinical Specialists, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Clinical Care Houston, Texas
Honors and Awards	Medical Alumni Endowment Fund Resident Research Award Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical/Translational Research Award Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award Eugene S. Mayer Community Service Honor Society
Board Certifications	American Board of Surgery American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Professional Memberships	Southern Thoracic Surgical Association American College of Chest Physicians
Personal Interests	Family, music, running, tennis, soccer and gardening

Publications by Dr. Parsons

MD Wilkerson, X Yin, KA Hoadley, Y Liu, M Hayward, CR Miller, S Randell, M Socinksi, AM Parsons, W Funkhouser, LThorne, P Bernard, CM Perou, D. N Hayes, Lung squamous cell carcinoma expression subtypes are reproducible, clinically-important, and similar to different cell types.  Submitted, JAMA, 2009.

AM Parsons, EK Ennis, BC Yankaskas, LA Parker, WB Hyslop, FC Detterbeck, Helical CT Inaccuracy in the Detection of Pulmonary Metastases:  Can it be Improved? Annals of Thoracic Surgey, 84(6):1830-6, December 2007. 

HW Yim, RJC Slebos, SH Randell, DM Umbach, AM Parsons, MP Rivera, FC Detterbeck, JA Taylor, Smoking is associated with increased telomerase activity in short-term cultures of human bronchial epithelial cells, Cancer Letters 246(1-2):24-33, Feb 2007.

NC Christie, AM Parsons, and KE Behrns, Metastatic Hepatic Paraganglioma Six Years After Carotid Body Tumor Resection.  Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 4(10): A24, October 2006.

AM Parsons and FC Detterbeck, Of Buffaloes, Horshoes and Having No Connections. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 80(4): 1521-3, October 2005.

RJC Slebos, E Livanos, HW Yim, SH Randell, AM Parsons, FC Detterbeck, MP Rivera, JA Taylor, Chromosomal abnormalities in bronchial epithelium from smokers, non-smokers and lung cancer patients.  Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 159(2):137-42, June 2005.

AM Parsons, FC Detterbeck and LA Parker, Accuracy of Helical CT in the Detection of Pulmonary Metastases:  Is Intraoperative Palpation Still Necessary? Annals of Thoracic Surgey,78(6):1910-8; discussion 1910-8, December 2004.

FC Detterbeck and AM Parsons, Tumors of the Thymus, Annals of Thoracic Surgery 77:1860-9, May 2004.

AM Parsons and FC Detterbeck,  Multifocal Right Atrial Myxoma and Pulmonary Embolism.  Annals of Thoracic Surgery 75:1323-4, April 2003