Thoracic Surgery consultants

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Contact details

Carol Perryman: 01865 226656
Email: carol.perryman@ouh.nhs.uk

Biography

Oxford Thoracic Surgery has excellent results having received positive outlier status for good practice in the English National Lung Cancer Clinical Outcomes Publication for the year 2018 and 2019.

Oxford Thoracic Surgery was identified as an example of good practice for achieving high resection rates in the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) review by pre-habilitation programmes.

Our CT follow-up programme after lung cancer surgery offers every patient who has their lung cancer operated on in our department the opportunity for protocolised follow-up care via CT scanning for five years.

For the small number of patients who develop further disease, our programme has been shown to identify the majority of this disease at a stage when further radical treatments may be offered.

Thoracic Surgery patients in Oxford have the opportunity to enter into studies including VIOLET Trial (lung cancer), MIST3 (pleural infection) and ORIF (rib fixation in trauma).

Specialty interests

• Diagnosis, staging, treatment and palliation of primary and secondary lung cancer and other cancer by minimally-invasive, open and endobronchial techniques.

• VATS lung cancer, parathyroidectomy, endobronchial and surgical lung volume reduction and trauma including rib fixation.

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Contact details

Sharon Florey: 01865 220240
Email: sharon.florey@ouh.nhs.uk

Private practice

Sharon Florey
Email: francescothoracicpp@gmail.com

Biography

Mr Francesco Di Chiara is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals, where he introduced uniportal VATS surgery (single incision key-hole).

He has been involved in teaching peer consultant colleagues. He regularly performs advanced cases including sleeve lobectomies, chest wall resections and segmentectomies with this technique.

Furthermore he has worked alongside the multidisciplinary team to improve the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) pathway following thoracic surgery. He has several active collaborations acting as an educator in minimally-invasive thoracic surgery at an international level.

His background experience includes cardiothoracic transplantation and cardiac surgery.

He has an interest in chest wall, thoracic spinal and trauma surgery and is the Principal Investigator for Oxford in a national randomised control trial on the management of rib fractures funded by NIHR.

He regularly delivers anatomy teachings for students at Oxford University Medical School.

Specialty interests

• Lung cancer

• Sarcoma

• Chest wall surgery

• Diaphragmatic surgery

• Rib fixation

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon

Contact details

Carol Perryman: 01865 226656
Email: carol.perryman@ouh.nhs.uk

Private practice

Carol Perryman
Email: carol.perryman@ouh.nhs.uk

Biography

Mr Stavroulias has been a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals since 2013, having been a Fellow Thoracic Surgeon at Guy's and St.Thomas' Hospital, London, Nottingham City Hospital and Glenfield Hospital, Leicester.

He trained in Thoracic Surgery and General Surgery in Parma, Italy.

Oxford consistently demonstrates high resection rates for primary lung cancer offering more patients the opportunity for cure by undergoing surgery.

Oxford Thoracic Surgery has excellent results having received positive outlier status for good practice in the English National Lung Cancer Clinical Outcomes Publication for the year 2018 and 2019.

Specialty interests

• VATS lobectomy for lung cancer

• VATS thymectomy for myasthenia gravis and/or tumours of the mediastinum

• Chest trauma surgery

• Chest sarcoma surgery

• Surgery for locally advanced lung cancer

• Chest deformities: pectus surgery and/or bracing