de Perrot, Marc
Marc de Perrot is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
- Developed, as a partner, the Surgery for Mesothelioma After Radiation Therapy (SMART) approach to treating patients with cancer.
- Leads the Toronto Pulmonary Endarterectomy Program Division of Thoracic Surgery at Toronto General Hospital, part of the University Health Network, where the division has created a special program for treating patients with mesothelioma.
- Heads the Toronto Mesothelioma Research Program.
- Participates as a member of the Canadian Mesothelioma Foundation.
- Focuses his surgical expertise on end-stage lung diseases, including lung and heart-lung transplantation.
- Serves as an associate professor of surgery at the University of Toronto.
- Serves as a principal investigator in the Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory.
- Has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, as well as several book chapters.
- Serves as a regular reviewer for peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Transplantation, Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
- Presents regularly at international conferences.
- Research interests include malignant pleural mesothelioma and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, as well as new treatments using immunotherapy and combined modality therapy.
Education:
- M.D. degree from the University of Geneva in Switzerland.
