Brompton Grand Rounds in Thoracic Surgery

Dr David Waller, Senior Thoracic Surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London and the most senior pure thoracic surgical specialist in England, presents Life After MARS 2.

Dr Alan Sihoe, Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the CUHK Medical Center in Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Gleneagles Hong Kong Hospital, presents Future of Surgical Access for Lung Cancer.

Dr Henrik Hansen, Head of the Minimal Invasive Thoracic Program at Rigshospitalet – the largest program of VATS surgery in Europe, the inventor of the standardized anterior approach also known as the Copenhagen approach and have performed over 2000 anatomical VATS operations. He performs pediatric lung surgery as VATS also in infants and will present technical points on this procedure.

Professor Enrico Ruffini, Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Torino and currently chairing the SPFC-TD of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, presents TNM9 Update on Staging of Thymic Epithelial Tumours.

Dr Steven Walker, NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer and Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine at the University of Bristol, and current member of the BTS Pleural Disease and ERS Spontaneous Pneumothorax guidelines, presents Update on Pneumothorax.

Dr Mark Roberts, Consultant Respiratory Physician and Head of Service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, presents Update on Malignant Pleural Effusion.

Professor Najib Rahman, Professor of Respiratory Medicine and director of the Oxford Respiratory Trials Unit at the University of Oxford, consultant pleural physician at Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, presents Update of Management of Empyema.

Dr Cecile Le Péchoux, Senior Radiation Oncologist at Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus University Hospital, presents Adjuvant Radiation for Resected N2 Disease - LungART.

Professor Eric Lim, Chair of the UK Thoracic Surgery Research Collaborative, Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at the Royal Brompton Hospital, and a Professor of Thoracic Surgery at the Imperial College London, will present Difference or Indifference - methodological interpretation of thoracic trials in 2022.