Mark D. Sides, MD

About Dr. Sides

Dr. Mark Sides is a thoracic oncologist with. He received his PhD in biomedical sciences from the Tulane School of Medicine with a concentration of Epstein Barr virus in pulmonary fibrosis working within the lung biology group. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship also at Tulane with concentration of the Epstein Barr Virus and cancer therapeutics. He received his medical degree from the Tulane School of Medicine followed by an internal medicine residency at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where he received the Dame Cicely Saunders Award for compassionate care of his patients. He continued at UTMB for his medical oncology fellowship and was selected Outstanding Fellow of the Year in his final year. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine through ABIM and board-certified for Medical Oncology. 

My Little Something Extra: Dr Sides is an avid sailor and lived on his sailboat in his home state of South Carolina prior to coming to Louisiana in 2006. He has sailed offshore Atlantic, Maine to the Caribbean and Gulf waters as well as racing on Lake Pontchartrain.