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Mr. Di Chiara is currently a consultant thoracic surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals. In this episode he talks about his career path and gives students some helpful advice regarding applying to such an incredibly competitive pathway.

Mr. Di Chiara trained in Italy in cardiothoracic transplantation and cardiac surgery before coming to the UK. He has been a visiting fellow twice at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital and Chengdu Thoracic Surgery Centre.

Most notably, Mr. Di Chiara is known for introducing unilateral VATS surgery at Oxford, where he now performs complex thoracic operations. These include sleeve lobectomies, chest wall resections and segmectomies. He also has an interest in research and has managed to include Oxford University Thoracic Surgery in a national randomised controlled trial on the management of rib fractures, funded by the NIHR.

Join me as I delve into the realms of urology with Mr. Alastair Lamb, a Consultant Urologist at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.

InciSioN UK bring you a podcast with Mr Magnus Arnander a consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at St. George's Hospital London. In this episode, he talks about his career, journey through medical school and talks about how students can engage with surgery early on in their career. He also talks about his sub-speciality in hand, elbow and shoulder surgery.

InciSioN UK brings you a podcast with Mr Alex Trompeter for the month of November. Our theme this month is Global Orthopaedic surgery. Mr Trompeter is a Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon at St. George’s University Hospital, London and holds the position of Honorary Reader in Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London. In this episode, he talks about his career, journey through medical education and his interests in global orthopaedic surgery.

For world trauma day, InCiSioN UK brings you a podcast with Dr. Sugand. Dr. Sugand is currently completing his PhD and surgical research fellowship at the MSk lab at Charing Cross Hospital. During the pandemic, he co-founded and co-led the COVERT (COVid-19 Emergency/Elective Related Trauma and Orthopaedics) Collaborative in response to the global pandemic.

Dr James Chang is a Johnson & Johnson Distinguished Professor and Chief of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University. He is also the C.M.O of Resurge. In this episode, he talks to Smrithi Sriram about Global Reconstructive Surgery and Resurge. “Resurge’s Mission is to provide reconstructive surgical care and build surgical capacity in developing countries”.