Timothy W. Mullett, MD

Dr. Timothy Mullett is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery at the University of Kentucky. Since the projects inception in 2000, he has served on the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Project (KLCRP) Governance Board, overseeing and directing the initiatives and funds of the KLCRP and serve as the Medical Director of the Kentucky Clinical Trials Network, an initiative of the KLCRP, which is a statewide network of sites conducting lung cancer trials. Dr. Mullett serves as the Medical Director of the Markey Cancer Center Affiliate Network created to provide high-quality cancer care closer to home at collaborating centers, through specialty services, education and outreach programs. In addition, he serves as the Medical Director of the Markey Cancer Center Research Network, a collaborative network of sites conducting a portfolio of high priority trials, including therapeutic oncology trials, interventional and non-interventional trials. Dr. Mullett serves as Investigator and co-Investigator on numerous research grants funded by the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, and the Kentucky Lung Cancer Research Program. He also serves as co-Investigator of the Kentucky LEADS Collaborative, a portfolio of studies to reduce the burden of lung cancer in Kentucky through the development, evaluation and dissemination of novel, community-based interventions to promote clinician education, survivorship care and prevention and early detection of lung cancer. Dr. Mullett serves as the co-chair of a LEADS Collaborative study, C3 to examine dissemination and implementation of lung cancer screening, an investigator-initiated trial of the Markey Cancer Center conducted throughout the state of Kentucky.

Clinical interests include End-Stage Lung Disease, Esophageal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Mediastinal Tumors, Pleural Effusion, and Pulmonary Metastases.

Dr. Mullett is certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He was named a Best Doctor 2013.