BTOG Surgical Webinar: Controversies in the Management of Early Stage Lung Cancer

BTOG Surgical Webinar – Controversies in the Management of Early-Stage Lung Cancer
Thursday 25th March 2021

Biographies
Kelvin Lau
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, London
I am consultant and lead thoracic surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London.
I qualified from the University of Oxford in 2002. During my time at Oxford I was awarded a ICRF scholarship to investigate molecular angiogenesis and vascular targeting of anti-cancer treatment at the Institute of Molecular Medicine for which I was awarded a doctorate of philosophy.
After my training, I obtained his membership in 2005, and was awarded the only cardiothoracic surgery national training number in 2006. I received my training in Glenfield Hospital, Nottingham and London, and went on to complete a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where I was then made honorary assistant professor.

On return to the UK in 2013, I was appointed as the first consultant thoracic surgeon for St Bartholomew’s Hospital where I set up the thoracic surgery service, introduced VATS lobectomy and endobronchial programmes, and recently, one of the first dedicated 24/7 cardiothoracic robotic surgery programme in the UK.

In November 2015, I led the first team in Europe to successfully use the latest version of navigation bronchoscopy and went on to do the first in the world endobronchial microwave ablation of lung tumour in February 2018.

Robert Stevenson
Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Birmingham
Dr Stevenson qualified from the University of Warwick in 2005. He trained within the West Midlands and was appointed as Consultant Clinical Oncologist at University Hospitals Birmingham in 2014. Dr Stevenson is also a visiting consultant to Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust and Heart of England NHS trust. Dr Stevenson specialises in the treatment of lung and urological cancers with chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and radiotherapy.

Dr Stevenson is also involved in 4-dimensional and stereotactic lung radiotherapy within Birmingham and has experience in delivering Cyberknife treatment to an early stage of lung cancer.

Dr Stevenson has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the principal investigator (PI) for a number of national clinical trials.

Malcolm Will
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Specialist interest in minimally invasive thoracic surgery, airway diseases, chest wall disorders and interventions for COPD