Dr. Alessandro Brunelli is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, St. James’s University Hospital, in Leeds, UK. 

He was the former vice-Director of the Division of Thoracic Surgery and Head of Section of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery in Ancona, Italy, where he worked for more than 15 years. 

Dr. Brunelli is the current President Elect and Secretary General of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS). He is member of the ESTS Board of Directors since 2008. 

He has been the Director of the ESTS Database from 2008 to 2012 and is a member of the Educational Committee and Faculty of the ESTS School of Thoracic Surgery. 

Dr. Brunelli is leading the European Institutional Accreditation program. 

He is a member of the Thoracic Oncology and Thoracic Surgery HERMES task forces organized by the European Respiratory Society to standardize education in thoracic oncology across Europe. 

He is the Author of more than 280 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed impact factored scientific journals with a personal impact factor of 1300 and H-index of 45. 

He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and of the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 

Dr. Brunelli is the former co-Chair of the European Respiratory Society/European Society of Thoracic Surgeons joint task force appointed to develop guidelines for the selection of patients for lung cancer radical treatment and is the lead author of the Physiologic Chapter of the third edition of the American College of Chest Physicians guidelines for diagnosis and management of Lung Cancer. 

He is the co-chair of the European guidelines of structure and qualification of general thoracic surgery. 

His main professional and scientific interests focus on minimally invasive thoracic surgery, quality of care, risk stratification and modeling, patient reported outcomes and health economics.