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Giuseppe Cardillo

BIOGRAPHY

Professor Giuseppe CARDILLO, FRCS, FETCS is the chair of Thoracic Surgery at Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini in Rome, Italy. He is The President of the Italian Society of Thoracic Endoscopy ( SIET) ; the Chair of ERS( European Respiratory Society) Thoracic Surgery Group 08.1; the Director of EACTS ( European Association for CardioThoracic Surgery) Academy Thoracic Surgery Course 1. He is councillor of ITMIG ( International Thymic Malignancies Interest Group) and member of the “ Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee” of the IASLC , involved in Nodal Staging update . He is co-chair of The “Pneumothorax “ ERS-EACTS-ESTS joint task force, of the “GGO “ EACTS-ESTS task force, and of the ERS Benign pleural effusion task force. He has been co-chair of the ERS-EACTS -ESTS-ESTRO Malignant pleural Mesothelioma task force. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Oncology , and Guest Editor of Journal of Clinical Medicine ; he is also editorial board member of European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) ( IF 33.8) In the past, he has been Locum Consultant Thoracic surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester , Glenfield Hospital , Leicester(UK)( 2007) and Fellow Thoracic Surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg (S) ( 1996). His main clinical interest is minimally invasive thoracic surgery either by VATS and by RATS ( robot Da Vinci Xi), locally advanced NSCLC , Mesothelioma, Thymoma, and tracheal surgery. He is also involved in lung cancer screening

Solitary Pulmonary Nodules - Task Force

Chair 2022-2025

Ruben Osnabrugge

Tunc Lacin

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2015-18

Richard Milton

COUNCIL

Domain Chair 2021-2024

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Chair 2021-2024

Mohsen Ibrahim

Education Committee

Member 2020-2023

Robotic Surgery - Task Force

Member 2022-2025

Jens Neudecker

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2018-2021

Maninder Kalkat

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2018-2021

Donna Eaton

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2018-2021

Vincent Fang

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2022-2025

BIOGRAPHY

Vincent (Wentao) Fang is the chief thoracic surgeon at the Shanghai Chest Hospital, Jiaotong University Medical School in Shanghai, China. He routinely performs open and minimally-invasive surgery including VATS and robotics for pulmonary, mediastinal and esophageal diseases. His research focuses on thoracic malignancies, including lung cancers, thymic tumors, and esophageal cancers. He is currently a Steering Committee member of the IASLC SPFC, Thoracic Domain member of the ASCVTS, Chairman of the Mediastinal Tumor committee and Vice Chairman of the Esophageal Cancer committee of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association.

Solitary Pulmonary Nodules - Task Force

Member 2022-2025

Piotr Yablonskii

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2018-2021

BIOGRAPHY

Dean of Medical faculty of St. Petersburg State University Director of St.Petersburg State Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology Dr. Piotr Yablonskiy is a general thoracic surgeon, he performs all operations on the lungs and mediastinal organs, including reconstructive-plastic and thoracoscopic, owns the technique of general surgical, vascular and cardiac surgical interventions. He has experience in lung transplantation, robot-assisted surgical interventions. He was the first surgeon in the Russian Federation who performed the robotic surgery on the thorax. Since then he performed more than 250 RATS in thoracic surgery on Da Vinci surgical system. He developed and performed the first RATS in patient with pulmonary TB in the world. Piotr was born in Moldova. He attended medical school at the medical University of Kishinev. Then he moved to St.Petersburg, where he had made a large breakthrough in his surgical and scientific career at the State Scientific Research Institute of Pulmonology. In 1994 he founded and leaded the St.Petersburg Center of pulmonology and thoracic surgery, which became one of the best in the Russian Federation. Since 2005 Piotr is a Chief Surgeon of St. Petersburg and since 2010 – the Chief Thoracic Surgeon of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation. Piotr is the author of more than 500 scientific papers on pulmonology, thoracic surgery and TB surgery. In addition, he is the co-author of the national guideline on respiratory diseases, author of the monograph “Mediastinoscopy and other invasive methods of N-staging of lung cancer”, co-author of the “Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. Complex Pleuropulmonary Infections: European Respiratory Society Monograph”. Internationally recognized for his expertise in TB surgery, mediastinal tumors and lung cancer surgery. He is founder and President of the Russian Association of Thoracic Surgeons, also President of National Phthisiatrists Association. He is a member of the ERS, ESTS, EACTS, ISMICS and a member of WCTS Steering committee. Above all he is a founding editor of Journal Medical Alliance и St. Petersburg State University Journal of Medicine.

Tim Batchelor

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2020-2023

Korkut Bostanci

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2020-2023

Fabian Dörr

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Resident Member 2020-2023

Residents Committee

Member 2021-2024

Tomaž Štupnik

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2021-2024

Jari Räsänen

THORACIC DISEASE DOMAIN

Member 2021-2024
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