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Presented by the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Objectives

This two-day program will update practicing surgeons, postgraduate trainees and other health professionals on current topics in thoracic surgery.

The program will include lectures, discussion with speaker panels, a debate, workshops, video presentations, questions from the audience and interactive touch-pads.

Course Highlights

  • Review of recent developments in robotic and minimally invasive thoracic surgery
  • Current applications of awake thoracic surgery
  • Update on surgical approaches to thoracic malignancies

Course Directors

Marc de Perrot, MD, MSc
Associate Professor
Division of Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Thomas K. Waddell, MD, MSc, PhD, FRCSC, FACS
Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University Health Network
Thomson Family Chair in Translational Research Professor and Pearson-Ginsberg Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto

Guest Speakers

Visiting Speaker of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada, Region 3 Advisory Committee:

Drew Bethune, MD MSc FRCSC FCCP
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia

R.D. Henderson Memorial Lecturer

Nasser K. Altorki, MD
David B. Skinner Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery
The New York Presbyterian Hospital
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
New York, NY

R.J. Ginsberg Lecturer

Robert J. Cerfolio, MD FACS FCCP
Professor, Surgery
Chief of Section of Thoracic Surgery
JH Estes Endowed Chair for Lung Cancer Research
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

F.G. Pearson Lecturer

Eugenio Pompeo, MD PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Policlinico Tor Vergata University
Rome, Italy