Dr. Paul Lapunzina is a thoracic and cardiac surgeon based in San Francisco, California. He has been practicing medicine for the past 25 years. Dr. Lapunzina is a board-certified specialist in thoracic and cardiac surgery. He graduated from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine and continued his formative course with a residency stage at the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn and a fellowship at the University of Utah. Dr. Paul Lapunzina is currently affiliated with the Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco and Santa Clara.