Karen Redmond

Professor Redmond is the Chair of Thoracic Surgery at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and School of Medicine, University College Dublin in Ireland. She is an elected Trustee and Chair of the Thoracic Surgery Subcommittee for the Society of Cardio-thoracic Surgeons in Great Britain and Ireland. She is a Council Member of the Irish Thoracic Society. The first female lung transplant surgeon to be appointed both in the UK and Ireland, she specializes in the surgical management of patients with lung cancer, end-stage lung disease (emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis), lung volume reduction, lung transplantation and a range of other prevalent conditions including complex airway and pectus conditions. She is one of the first trained robotic surgeons in the British Isles with published comparative meta-analyses on robotic lobectomy (BASCO Award at the 2019 SCTS Annual Meeting) and thymectomy with recent publications on robotic surgery in the area of health economics. She is one of the first thoracic surgeons worldwide to start an iVATS programme (CT-guided localisation in the Hybrid Theatre) resecting pulmonary nodules supporting diagnosis and / or curative resection of pulmonary metastases. She has set up the first tracheobronchoplasty service for severe airway malacia in Ireland. Professor Redmond is frequently invited to speak at national and international meetings, is a reviewer for journals focused on her subspecialty field of thoracic surgery and transplantation.