Tom Treasure, MD MS FRCS F

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By Joel Dunning, MRCS, PhD  (38 minutes)

Professor Tom Treasure was trained in Cambridge and London in the UK, and received a Hunterian professorship from the Royal College of Surgery in 1983. He was first at St. Georges Hospital in London and then became Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Guy’s Hospital in 2001. Currently, he is a professor with the Clinical Operational Research Unit at UCL.

He is a past president of the European Association of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, he was chairman of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons metastasectomy guideline project, he was on the NICE guidelines committee for lung cancer management in the UK, and more recently he has worked as the principal investigator of the MARS trial and currently the PULMIC trial, which is a randomized multicenter controlled trial on resection versus conservative therapy for colonic lung metastases.