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Mr Nizar Asadi has been a consultant thoracic surgeon at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Trust since 2017, after previously working at Great Ormond Street Hospital.

He performs adult and paediatric thoracic surgery, minimally invasive video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) lung resection, chest wall surgery, tracheal surgery, and pectus deformities surgery.

His special interests are in locally advanced lung and chest wall tumours, benign and malignant pleural disease, airway stenting and cryotherapy, and minimally invasive mediastinal tumour resection.

Mr Asadi earned his medical degree from the University of Bologna in Italy in 2006 before undertaking thoracic surgery training in Italy and the United Kingdom.

He is a member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Italian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and the Association of medical practitioners, surgeons and dentists of the District of Bologna.