Giuseppe Cardillo

Professor Giuseppe CARDILLO is the chair of  Thoracic Surgery at Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo Forlanini in Rome, Italy. He is The President of the  Italian Society of Thoracic Endoscopy ( SIET) ;  the Chair of ERS( European Respiratory Society)  Thoracic Surgery Group; the Director of EACTS ( European Association for CardioThoracic Surgery) Academy Thoracic Surgery Course 1, and the Director of ACOI-SICT  ( Societa’ Italiana di Chirurgia Toracica) School of Thoracic Surgery.

He is councillor of ITMIG ( International Thymic Malignancies Interest Group).

He is co-chair of The “Pneumothorax “ ERS-EACTS-ESTS joint task force, of the “GGO “ EACTS-ESTS task force, and of the ERS Benign pleural effusion task force. He has been co-chair of the ERS-EACTS -ESTS-ESTRO Malignant pleural Mesothelioma task force.

He is member of the “ Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee” of the IASLC , involved in Nodal Staging update.

He is Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ( FRCS) and Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeons (FETCS).

He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Oncology  ( IF 6) and Guest Editor of Journal of Clinical Medicine ( IF 4.9) ; he is also editorial board member of European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) ( IF 33.8).

In the past, he has been Locum Consultant Thoracic surgeon at University Hospitals of Leicester , Glenfield Hospital , Leicester(UK)( 2007) and Fellow Thoracic Surgeon at Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg (S) ( 1996).

His main clinical interest is minimally invasive thoracic surgery  either by VATS and by RATS ( robot Da Vinci Xi),  locally advanced NSCLC , Mesothelioma, Thymoma, and tracheal surgery.

He is also involved in lung cancer screening.

Bibliometric indices: H-index 40 ( google scholar).