Dr. Kaiser has committed to a minimum of $300,000 in new revenue and has already secured the Presenting Sponsorship of $75,000 from the Memorial Hermann Hospital System.   He is recruiting the Houston medical community to join him in a 2010 Houston Medical Community Collaborative for the 2010 March for Babies.
 
Dr. Kaiser came to the UT Health Science Center from the University of Pennsylvania Health System, where he was the Surgeon-in-Chief, the John Rhea Barton Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery. Dr. Kaiser is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of every major surgical society including the American Surgical Association, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Clinical Surgery, the Fleischner Society, the Halsted Society, and the Society of University Surgeons  He has served or currently serves on the editorial board of the Annals of Surgery, Contemporary Surgery, ACS Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology, and the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. In 2005, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science.

After earning his M.D. degree from Tulane University, Dr. Kaiser took his internship and residency in surgery at the University of California at Los Angeles between 1977 and 1983.  He completed his education in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Toronto serving as Senior Resident in Thoracic Surgery in 1985.  He joined the faculty on the Thoracic Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center immediately following the completion of his residency. In 1988 he was recruited to Washington University School of Medicine, to join his mentor, Dr. Joel Cooper, where he ultimately rose to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in 1990.  Dr. Kaiser came to Penn in 1991 as Associate Professor of Surgery, Chief of General Thoracic Surgery, founder and Director of the Lung Transplantation Program, and Director of the Center for Lung Cancer and Related Disorders.