276. Concomitant Electromagnetic Navigation Transbronchial Microwave Ablation of Multiple Lung Nodules is Safe

After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Lanuti received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in Surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a two year research fellowship in a Thoracic Oncology Laboratory focusing on novel treatments (gene therapy) for lung cancer. He completed a Cardiothoracic Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has been on staff in the Division of Thoracic Surgery since 2004, and holds a parallel appointment as Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has been the Friedman-Lambert Scholar in Academic Thoracic Surgery at MGH/HMS since 2004.  He is the Director of Thoracic Oncology for the Division of Thoracic Surgery and the Thoracic Surgery liaison to the MGH Cancer Center.  Clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery for lung cancer, complex airway tumors, multimodality treatment of esophageal cancer, mediastinal tumors,  thermal ablation of lung tumors. 

Dr Joyce Chan is a resident at Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in Prince of Wales Hospital, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong in 2015 with MBBS (1st Class Honours). Her main interest is in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, including single port VATS and electromegnetic navigation bronchoscopy (ENB) procedures. Prince of Wales Hospital is one of the pioneers in Asia in ENB biopsy and ablation of lung lesions, and is in keen development of robotic ENB procedures.