Drain Removal or Discharge in the Presence of Air Leaks – What are the Limits?

Alessandro Brunelli

Speaker

Dr. Alessandro Brunelli is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James's University Hospital, in Leeds, UK. He moved to UK in 2014 after spending 15 years in Italy as staff thoracic surgeon in Ancona, leading the Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery Program.

Dr. Brunelli has served as the 30th President of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) in 2021-2022 and former Secretary General of the Society for 9 years. He is member of the ESTS Board of Directors since 2008. He has been the Director of the ESTS Database from 2008 to 2012 and is a member of the Educational Committee and Faculty of the ESTS School of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Brunelli is leading the European Institutional Accreditation program. He is a member of the Thoracic Oncology and Thoracic Surgery HERMES task forces organized by the European Respiratory Society to standardize education in thoracic oncology across Europe.

He is the Author of more than 340 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed impact factored scientific journals with a personal impact factor of more than 1500, a Scopus H-index of 50 and more than 10,000 citations. 

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 

Dr. Brunelli is the co-Chair of the European Respiratory Society/European Society of Thoracic Surgeons joint task force appointed to develop guidelines for the selection of patients for lung cancer radical treatment and is the lead author of the Physiologic Chapter of the third edition of the American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for diagnosis and management of Lung Cancer.

His main professional and scientific interests focus on thoracic oncology surgery, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, sublobar resections, quality of care, risk stratification and modeling, patient reported outcomes and health economics.