Prof. Dr. med. Walter Weder

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Thoraxchirurgie (founding president)
• Swisstransplant (founding president, lung transplant group, board member)
• European Respiratory Society, ERS
• International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer, IASLC
• European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, EACTS
• European Society for Thoracic Surgeons, ESTS (Past President)
• European Society for Medical Oncology, ESMO (Educational Committee) 
• The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, STS
• American Association for Thoracic Surgery, AATS
• International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, ISHLT
• International Mesothelioma lnterest Group, lMlG (board member)

2004 
First mediastinal tumour resection & lobectomy by Da Vinci robot

Since 1995
Multiple studies for extended resection for NSCLC after neoadjuvant therapy 

Since 1998
Multiple studies on EPP/PD for mesothelioma after neoadjuvant therapy

1995
First VATS LVRS worldwide, since then more than 1000 surgical interventions

1993
First VATS lobectomy

1992
First lung transplantation in Switzerland, since then more than 500 lung transplantations have been performed 

Full spectrum of thoracic surgery, in particular:

• Lung cancer surgery and complex resections at locally advanced stages, mesothelioma
• Thymus surgery and mediastinal tumours
• Minimally invasive surgery VATS and RATS (first VATS lobectomy in Switzerland, 1993, and first robotic thymectomy (Da Vinci), 2004)
• Emphysema surgery (first thoracoscopic LVRS in the world)

Interview with Prof. Dr. med. Walter Weder

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