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General Thoracic

Thoracic Oncologic Surgery in 2025: Innovation and Re-Appraisal of Dogma

Friday, January 24, 2025
9:45am – 11:45am PT
Location: 408B

Presentations:

  • 9:45am – 9:51am PT
    Annals Academy—Top 10 Questions in General Thoracic Surgery

    Invited Speaker: Brian Mitzman, MD, MS – University of Utah

  • 9:51am – 9:56am PT
    Discussion
  • 9:56am – 10:06am PT
    Optimal Intrathoracic Pressure Setting Level of a Digital Thoracic Drainage System for Managing Air Leakage After Anatomical Pulmonary Resection: The Thop-Air Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Presenting Author: Kazuhito Funai, MD, PhD – First Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine

  • 10:06am – 10:16am PT
    Does Residual Apical Space (RAS) After Surgery in Persistent/Recurrent Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax Prove to Be a Predictor Factor of Recurrence? Multicenter Analysis Stratified by Type of Surgery

    Presenting Author: Antonio Giulio Napolitano, MD – Department of Thoracic Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A.Gemelli" IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome

  • 10:16am – 10:26am PT
    Does This Lymph Node Look Bulky to You? What Should We Do About It? A Survey of Thoracic Surgeons.

    Presenting Author: Ian C. Bostock, MD MS – Miami Cancer Institute

  • 10:26am – 10:36am PT
    DOTATATE-PET has Low Sensitivity in Preoperative Nodal Staging of Carcinoid Tumors of the Lung

    Presenting Author: Lillian L. Tsai, MD – Stanford University

  • 10:36am – 10:46am PT
    Thoracic Metastasectomy of Residual Germ Cell Tumor Metastases After Sequential High-Dose Chemotherapy with Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Relapsed Patients

    Presenting Author: Stefan Sponholz – Thoracic Surgery Agaplesion Markus Hospital

  • 10:46am – 10:56am PT
    Social Vulnerability Effects on Timeliness-to-Treatment for Patients with Localized Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    Presenting Author: Jonathan E. Williams, MD – University of Michigan

  • 10:56am – 11:06am PT
    Sublobar Resection Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Recurrence in Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer with Lymphovascular Invasion

    Presenting Author: Joshua R. Brady, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin Clinics & Hospitals

  • 11:06am – 11:16am PT
    1,000 Robotic Navigational Bronchoscopies: Diagnostic Yield and Surgical Implications

    Presenting Author: Andrew R. Brownlee, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

  • 11:16am – 11:26am PT
    The Safety and Efficacy of Second Pulmonary Resections for Lung Cancer

    Presenting Author: Hayley Reddington, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

  • 11:26am – 11:34am PT
    Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper for General Thoracic Surgery: Lobectomy vs. Sublobar Resection Among Lung Cancer Patients Understudied in Recent Clinical Trials

    Presenting Author: Gavitt A. Woodard, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine

  • 11:34am – 11:42am PT
    Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper Discussant for General Thoracic Surgery

    Discussant: Andrea Wolf, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  • 11:42am – 11:45am PT
    Audience Q&A