Advanced Thoracoscopic Lobectomy Course

Miguel Guerra – Course Director
Consultant of Thoracic Surgeon at Centro Hospitalar Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho
Professor at Faculty os Medicine of Porto

Jorge Correia-Pinto
Department Director of Pediatric Surgery, Hospital de Braga – Braga, Portugal
President of The School of Medicine of the University of Minho – Braga, Portugal

Péter Etlinger
Managing Director, Surgical Training Program, School of Medicine, University of Minho – Braga, Portugal
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hospital de Braga – Braga, Portugal

Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeon

Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho
Head of the Thoracic Surgery Unit at Hospital CUF Porto
Head of the Cardiothorcic Surgery Unit at Casa de Saúde da Boavista
Thoracic Surgeon at Hospital Privado de Gaia, GTS
Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic Surgery
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto

Thoracic Surgeon

IPO – Coimbra
Head of the Functional Unit of Thoracic Surgery of IPO Coimbra
Board Member of the Portuguese Society of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery
Associate editor at the Portuguese Journal of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João – Porto, Portugal
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency at Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra (2008-2015)

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Champalimaud Foundation – Lung Unit, Thoracic Oncology
Thoracic surgery assistant, Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa Hospital, Lisbon (2012-2016)
Portugal Harvard Program collaborator – “Oncobiology: developing educational tools for a new generation of physician-scientists”
Pediatric cardiac surgery internship, Sana Herzschirurgie Stuttgart/Olgahospital Kinderklinic, Stuttgart, Germany

Thoracic Surgeon

Hospital Pulido Valente, Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Norte
Medical Doctor at VMER-INEM for Emergency Pre-hospital care
President and Co-founder of the Clube de Internos de Cirurgia Torácica da SPCCTV (2019-2020)
Award Eduardo Esteves Pinto de Cirurgia Torácica (2020)

Thoracic Surgeon

Thoracic Surgery Unit at CHULC – Hospital Santa Marta
Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic Surgery
Member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons on Learning Affairs Committee

Thoracic Surgeon

IPO Porto
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
International Uniportal VATS Training Program – Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, China
Internship at the Thoracic Surgery and Pulmonary Transplant Unit of Centro Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña
Secretary of the Thoracic Surgery Committee of The Portuguese Pulmonology Society

Thoracic Surgeon

Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
Residency in Thoracic Surgery at Centro Hospital de Vila Nova de Gaia/Espinho
Specialist in Uniportal VATS

For more information contact training@b-acis.pt

Traveling by plane:
The nearest airport to the city of Braga is Sá Carneiro Airport, in Maia, Porto.

From Porto to Braga:
– Taxi / Uber / Bolt
– GetBus (directly from the airport to Braga bus station) (visit website)
– Train (visit website)

Recommended accommodation:
– Hotel Meliã (closest to the course venue)
– Hotel B&B Lamaçães (close to the course venue)
– Hotel Porta Nova Collection House (city center)

To visit:
– Get to know Braga (visit website)