Dr. Stefano Bongiolatti is a qualified Thoracic Surgeon who works at Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy. He received his MD Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Siena in 2009 and completed his Thoracic Surgery Residency at the University of Pisa in 2014. He has been a Consultant at the Thoracic Surgery Unit of the Careggi University Hospital of Careggi, Italy since 2015 where he currently performs traditional and minimally-invasive, thoracoscopic and robot-assisted, thoracic surgery procedures.

He is the author or co-author of several scientific papers on lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, thymoma, thoracic surgery, surgical infections, oncological surgery, esophageal surgery, minimally-invasive surgery and robot-assisted thoracic surgery. He is also an active reviewer of many scientific journals.

He is an active member of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS), the Italian Society of Thoracic Surgery (SICT) and he participated in several international and national meetings as a speaker. He is actually a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computed Assisted Surgery (IJMRCAS), BMC Respiratory Medicine journal and AME Surgical Journal (ASJ).

His clinical and basic research focus is on minimally-invasive lung cancer, lung segmentectomy, multimodal approaches in non-small-cell lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, NIR fluorescence imaging, robot-assisted thoracic surgery and quality of life assessment after thoracic surgery.

Research interests: minimally-invasive lung cancer, lung segmentectomy, multimodal approaches in non-small-cell lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma, NIR fluorescence imaging, robot-assisted mediastinal surgery and quality of life assessment after thoracic surgery, lung cancer surgery in fragile patients.