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Ricardo Sales dos. Santos
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Ricardo Sales dos Santos, MD, has been the Head of Minimally Invasive Thoracic and Robotic Surgery at Albert Einstein Israeli Hospital (São Paulo, Brazil) since 2010. His last appointment was as an Instructor in Minimally Invasive CT surgery at Boston Medical Center, and faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM, Massachusetts, USA)

Dr. Santos received his medical degree from the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, and completed his surgical residency at the State University of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and also research and clinical fellowships in general thoracic surgery and lung transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. Santos has published numerous articles on lung and esophageal cancer treatment with an emphasis on minimally invasive surgery as well as innovative surgical technologies such as radiofrequency ablation, interventional bronchoscopy, video-assisted and robotic surgery; and lung transplantation for end stage lung disease.

Dr. Santos is an international member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Brazilian Society of Pulmonary Physicians, as well as a member of Brazilian and Latin American medical societies. He is fluent in Portuguese, English and Spanish, and has been involved in the leadership of several Lung Cancer Initiatives for prevention and early cancer detection in Latin America.

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