Dr. Mayfield is a practicing Thoracic Surgeon at WellStar Health System in the metro Atlanta area. He co-founded the STAT Clinic at WellStar in 2008 as a Multi-disciplinary Thoracic Oncology Clinic. Over the next 10 years the concept has become five Multi-disciplinary Thoracic Clinics in four regional hospitals, and has grown to include Prostate, Neuro-oncology, Breast, and Aortic Disease. In 2009 he founded the WellStar Lung Screening Program with Vickie Beckler, RN as one of the IELCAP sites. The program is now an independent screening program with 11 sites and accrues a thousand new subjects a year. Dr. Mayfield's clinical focus is on Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Mayfield serves as the Chief Surgical Officer of WellStar Health System and Chairs the Service Line Executive Committee. Dr. Mayfield is Chair of the Georgia Lung Cancer Round Table (in partnership with the American Cancer Society and the Georgia Cancer Care Committee), and is a member of the Appropriateness of Care Committee of the National Lung Cancer Round Table. Dr. Mayfield is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Georgia.