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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 Unit from 2010 to 2014. Dr. Brunelli was the 30th President of the European Society of Thoracic
Surgeons (ESTS) and former Secretary General of the Society for 9 years. He is member
of the ESTS Board of Directors since 2008. He also serves the role of International Director in the Society of
Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Board (2022-2025). 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">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 330 scientific
papers published in peer-reviewed impact factored scientific journals with a
personal impact factor of 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 empathy in healthcare.