• Born October 6, 1943 San Antonio, Texas
• E-mail fgrannis@coh.org
• Work Address: Head, Section of Thoracic Surgery
• City of Hope National Medical Center
• 1500 E. Duarte Road Duarte, CA 91010
• 818-359-8111 Extension 2669

• Xavier High School New York, N.Y. 1957-1961
• Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA- B.S. Biology 1961-1965
• New York Medical College-Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals New York, N.Y. M.D. 1965-1969
• Mayo Graduate School of Medicine Rochester, MN: Rotating Internship in Surgery 1969-1970 Fellowship in General Surgery 1970-1974 Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery 1976-1978

• United States Public Health Hospital
• New Orleans LA 1974-1976
• Methodist Hospital of Southern California, Arcadia CA 1978 to present
• Active Staff Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena CA 1978 to present
• Active Staff City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte CA 1978 to present
• Active Staff Santa Teresita Hospital, Duarte CA - Courtesy Staff

• Tulane University School of Medicine, Instructor, Dept of Surgery 1975-1976
• University of Southern California
• County General Hospital, Associate Professor, Dept of Surgery 1982-1987
• University of California at San Diego, Department of Surgery, Assistant Clinical Professor, voluntary. 1998-present.

• Licence to practice medicine and surgery - Minnesota 1970-1978
• Licence to practice medicine and surgery - Louisiana 1974-1976
• Licence to practice medicine and surgery California 1978 to present
• Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery 1976
• Diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery 1981 Recertified in 1990
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons 1982
• Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians 1981
• Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons 1983
• Member, Los Angeles Surgical Society 1985
• Member, Western Thoracic Surgical Society 1988
• Member, General Thoracic Surgical Club 1989
• Member, California Thoracic Association 1990
• Member, American Thoracic Society 1992
• Member, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, 1992
• Member, Society of Surgical Oncologists 1993
• Member, California Medical Association 1994
• Trudeau Society American Lung Association of Los Angeles County 1996
• Freedom from Smoking Facilitator, American Lung Association 1997
• Member, American Cancer Society Cancer Control Committee, San Gabriel Valley Unit 1997
• Member, Pasadena Tobacco Prevention Coalition 1997.
• Member; SAVE LIVES NOT TOBACCO: The Coalition for Accountability. 1997
• Panel Member National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Guideline Panel on Non-small-cell Lung Cancer 1998.
• Member; Executive Committee, Trudeau Society, American Lung Association of Los Angeles. 1998

• Graduate cum laude Boston College 1965 BA Biology
• Alpha Omega Alpha 1969
• Wershub Award for Academic Excellence, New York Medical College- 1969
• Mayo Clinic Fellows Association Representative to the University of Minnesota Senate 1972-73
• Mayo Clinic Fellows Association Representative to the Physicians National Housestaff Association 1972-3
• Mayo Clinic Fellows Association Vice-president 1973-74

• Assistant Chief of Surgery, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, New Orleans LA 1974-76

• Chairman, Web Oversight Committee, City of Hope 1997
• Web-master Division of Surgery, City of Hope National Medical Center
• Chairman, Thoracic Surgery Section, Methodist Hospital of Southern California (MHSC) 1986-92, 1996
• Chairman, Laser Surgery Committee, (MHSC)
• Member, Cancer Committee (MHSC) 1994-6.
• Member, Medical Education Committee, (MHSC) 1991-96 Member, Surgical Committee (MHSC) 1986-92, 1996
• Chairman, Ad hoc Committee for Development of Cardial Surgical Services (MHSC) 1986-7
• Chairman, Sub-section of Thoracic Surgery, San Gabriel Valley Medical Center 1986-7
• Member, Mayo Clinic Medical School Admissions Committee 1977-78

• In June of 1996 I joined the full time faculty of the City of Hope National Medical Center as Head of the Section of Thoracic Surgery in the Department of General and Oncologic Surgery.
• I joined Edward Hayes MD and Arthur Silver MD in a group practice of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Arcadia, California in July 1978. Following the retirement of Dr. Hayes in 1988 I was in a solo practice centered at Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia. Since 1987 I served as a consulting surgeon in thoracic and vascular surgery at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte California. I have a broad practice of thoracic and vascular with a strong emphasis on thoracic oncologic surgery and esophageal disease.

• I currently supervise the thoracic surgery service at City of Hope National Medical Center. There, I teach thoracic and vascular surgery to the post-graduate fellows in General and Oncologic Surgery, general surgery residents from the University of California at San Diego, and the Martin Luther King Medical Center, and students from the Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona CA.

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