Panelist: Prof. Ricardo Sales dos Santos MD, PhD
Thoracic Surgeon, H. Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo
Surgical Teams at MaterDei,Oncoclínicas and HAPNDI Health Networks, Bahia, Sergipe
CEO-Founder of Propulmão Early Detection and Screening Platform (BRELT)
Professor, SENAI CIMATEC University Center, Bahia, Brazil
Professor Ricardo Sales dos Santos, MD, PhD is a distinguished thoracic surgeon with an extensive educational and professional background. He graduated from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in 1995 and completed his residency in general and thoracic surgery at UNICAMP from 1996 to 1999.
Following his residency, he pursued several fellowships in specialized areas such as minimally invasive thoracic surgery, lung transplantation, and robotics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Boston University (BU) from 2002 to 2009. He furthered his academic credentials by earning a PhD in surgical research from the Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo (FCMSCSP) in 2016.
Professor Sales dos Santos is an active member of the Brazilian Society of Thoracic Surgery (SBCT) and serves on the Screening and Early Detection Committee of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).
Currently, he practices as a thoracic surgeon at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, as well as at MaterDei, Oncoclínicas, and the HAPNDI Healthcare Networks in Salvador, Bahia, and Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil. He is also a founding partner of ProPulmão, a mobile unit dedicated to low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening, aimed at providing vital screening services to high-risk populations across Brazil.