I am a Thoracic Surgeon and also an associate professor of surgery at St. Luke’s University Health Network. In addition to my clinical practice caring for patients, I train our general surgery residents and developed our robotic surgery resident curriculum, designed to teach future robotic surgeons.
I earned my medical degree at Jefferson Medical College and completed an internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. I was in residency at Lankenau Hospital and completed a fellowship at Allegheny General Hospital.
I specialize in robotic lung resections, foregut procedures and mediastinal masses. During my training I was fortunate to be accepted into the AATS Robotic Surgical Fellowship, in addition to my thoracic surgical fellowship. Through this program I trained with leaders in robotic thoracic surgery around the country. Additionally, I am interested in the surgical treatment of GERD (“heartburn”). I am pleased to bring the robotic LINX procedure, a new surgical technique to prevent heartburn, to St. Luke’s and our patients.
Personally I enjoy the outdoors and being active. As a Colorado native, I am an avid skier and was a certified professional ski instructor at Vail in my younger days. During the warmer months I enjoy running and hiking on local trails. Most importantly I enjoy spending my free time with my wonderful wife Rachel and raising our energetic young daughter.
“Dr Manchester is a very caring doctor. He listens. He answers all my questions. He always shows me my ct scan and explains what he sees and what that means. He encourages as the visit goes. When my visit is done then I ask him how he is doing and hows the family. Then we are showing family pictures and my new great granddaughter, just like family!!!!! Doctors need to be encouraged too. My late husband was great at that. We all need each other .”
4/4/2025