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Alessandro Brunelli
Alessandro Brunelli, M.D.
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Background
Visiting Physician Dept. Surgery, Duke University, (1993)
Visiting Physician Division Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCSD (1994 and 1998)
Visiting Physician Dept. Thoracic Surgery, Washington University, St. Louis (1996)
Staff Surgeon,Div. Thoracic Surgery Ospedali Riuniti Ancona (2000-2014)
Director of ESTS Database and Audit (2008-2012)
ESTS Executive Committee (2008-current)
Visiting Clinician Program, Division General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic (Nov. 2009-May 2010)
Vice-Director, Div. Thoracic Surgery Ospedali Riuniti Ancona (2008-2014)
Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona, Italy (2010-2014)
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK (2014-current)
Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK (2015-current)
European Society of Thoracic Surgeons Secretary General (2012-current)
Interests
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Transcervical VATS thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis
Biportal Fissureless VATS Lobectomy and Segmentectomy
Thoracic Oncology
Uniportal VATS for pneumothorax
Mediastinal tumors
Uniportal Bilateral VATS Sympathicotomy for hyperhidrosis
Research
Quality of care and Clinical Audit
Patients reported outcome measures
Preoperative functional evaluation
Postoperative management of thoracic surgery patients
Fast track
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
Risk-modelling
Education
ECFMG certified (Sept. 1994. #0-499-913-2)
University of Ancona, Italy, Thoracic Surgery Residency (1994-1998)
University of Ancona, Italy, Medical School (M.D. 1992)
Printer-friendlyPractice Areas
- General Thoracic Surgery
- Thoracic Guidelines
- Mediastinum - Thymus
- Mediastinum
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- VATS
- Thoracic
- Surgery
- Lung
- Lung - Metastases
- Lung - Other
- Lung - Cancer
- Cancer
- Lobectomy