Mr Andrea Bille areas of expertise:
Professional statement
Mr Andrea Bille is a talented consultant thoracic surgeon at London Bridge Hospital and The Lister Hospital, which are both part of HCA Healthcare UK. He specialises in thoracic oncology, such as lung cancer, thymoma, mesothelioma, and Pancoast tumours. He has further expertise in other lung ailments and treatments including pneumothorax, endobronchial lesion, lobectomy, chest wall resection and reconstruction, and robotic surgery. He has an additional public practice at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust.
Mr Bille completed his Degree in Medicine in 2005 before undergoing a speciality in Thoracic Surgery in 2011 at the University of Turin. Mr Bille was appointed as a locum consultant in thoracic surgery at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan in 2012, and in 2014 he undertook a fellowship with the renowned Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, USA, where he was trained in minimally-invasive treatments for thoracic malignancies and advance technique with complex reconstruction. In 2015, he earned a PhD from the University of Milan for research on the surgical treatment of mesothelioma, a portion of which was published in the Thoracic Oncology Journal, where he has also been a professor in thoracic surgery at the nursing school. He has completed a clinical fellowship at Guy’s Hospital with a focus on mesothelioma surgery and minimally invasive thoracic surgery for the treatment of lung cancer and benign conditions
Mr Bille’s passion for thoracic medicine is further exemplified by his appointment as Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer as of 2016 in the Cancer division at King’s College London, and as chair of the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) mesothelioma registry. He is an associate editor for the thoracic surgery section of the Tumori Journal, and he has attended and presented several studies on thoracic malignancies at international meetings, with over 55 abstracts having been accepted. He is a member of several esteemed medical organisations, including ESTS, the Royal College of Radiologists, and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Mr Bille has developed an interest in robotic surgery for diaphragmatic disease including diaphragmatic elevation paralysis and diaphragmatic endometriosis.