Richard Lazzaro

My personal goal is to provide the best thoracic surgical care to the patients that I have the honor of caring for. Working with a team that has a shared vision and a common purpose, we care for patients just as we ourselves would want for our own families cared for, driving the narrative to deliver the best thoracic surgical care for patients.

Joining RWJBarnabas Health in 2022 from Northwell Health, I served as the Director of Thoracic Robotic Surgery and Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Here I developed a thoracic surgery program consecutively ranked top 10 in the country for lung cancer surgery outcomes since 2012 as reported by the General Thoracic Surgery Database of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the world’s premier clinical outcomes registry for thoracic surgery.

I attended Albany Medical College and completed my residency at North Shore University Hospital, Cornell University Medical College. I completed postdoctoral fellowship training in minimally invasive thoracic surgery at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as well as in general thoracic surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. I have pioneered many groundbreaking firsts in robotic thoracic surgery and have led one of the largest tracheobronchomalacia (TBM) programs in the nation. Using minimally invasive robotic surgery, I specialize in precise surgical procedures that result in minimal scarring and faster recovery times for patients. 

Dr. Lazzaro sees patients at Monmouth Medical Center, Community Medical Center, and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.