Lectureship Awards

Robert J. Ginsberg Lectureship Award for Surgery

Andrea Wolf graduated Cum Laude from Princeton and earned the highest honors at Harvard Medical School. She served as Chief Resident in Surgery at the MGH and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she completed a Thoracic Oncology Research Fellowship while earning her MPH at the Harvard School of Public Health. She has expertise in surgery for pleural mesothelioma and VATS lobectomy, and research interests in mesothelioma, health care disparities, and lung cancer. Her outreach extends to educational initiatives, such as teaching underprivileged students in Harlem and mentoring students, residents, and junior faculty, as well as actively promoting diversity and inclusion in the field of medicine, particularly surgery.

Dr. Wolf and her team at the New York Mesothelioma Program received the 2020 International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Care Team Award, and she received the 2022 Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Irving J. Selikoff Award. She has presented at numerous national and international meetings, was co-editor of the third edition of Sugarbaker's Adult Chest Surgery, and has published extensively on pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer. She is the Chair of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery Wellness Committee. She is also an avid running enthusiast, having completed over 14 marathons and serving as the President of a local running group dedicated to community service, including initiatives like the Achilles program, which supports differently abled athletes in their pursuit of running. She has served as Medical Director for several elite marathons, including one in which 47 runners qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials and one in which the Austrian national record was broken. Dr. Wolf has one son, who is a superhero.

Clifton F. Mountain Lectureship Award for Staging

Jin Mo Goo, MD, PhD, obtained both his medical and doctoral degrees from Seoul National University. A globally recognized leader in thoracic imaging, Dr. Goo has served as President of the Fleischner Society, contributing significantly to international guidelines on chest imaging.

He currently holds key editorial positions as an Associate Editor for Radiology and the Journal of Thoracic Imaging. Additionally, he serves as President of the Asian Society of Thoracic Radiology and previously led the Korean Society of Thoracic Radiology. His research primarily focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in thoracic imaging and advancements in lung cancer screening.

Dr. Goo has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and played a pivotal role in launching Korea’s National Lung Cancer Screening Program in 2019. His extensive research on subsolid nodules has been instrumental in defining T categories for subsolid nodules, multiple ground-glass nodules, and visceral pleural invasion. He chaired the Imaging Subcommittee of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee for the 9th edition of lung cancer staging and continues to serve as a key member of the Staging and Prognostic Factors Group for the 10th edition.

With his pioneering work in thoracic radiology, Dr. Goo continues to shape the future of lung cancer diagnosis and management worldwide.

Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award for Surgery

Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku is an internationally known Thoracic Surgeon with specific expertise in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and minimally invasive diagnostic procedures. He is currently Professor and Chair, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Toronto. He serves as Chief of Thoracic Surgery and Medical Director of Endoscopy at the Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto.

Dr. Yasufuku has been a leader in the field of minimally invasive diagnostics and therapeutics for thoracic malignancy. He co-developed the Convex Probe Endobronchial Ultrasound in 2002 and successfully introduced the clinical application of EBUS-TBNA in Thoracic Oncology, one of the major advances in Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology in the past decade. His clinical interests include minimally invasive diagnostic and surgery for thoracic oncology. He performed the first robotic lung anatomic resection in Canada in 2011 and leads the Thoracic Robotic Surgery Program at the University Health Network and continues to develop new minimally invasive image guided surgical procedures for lung cancer.

He is a Surgeon Scientist with research interests in development of new technology in early diagnosis and ultra-minimally invasive thoracic surgery, translational research in thoracic image guided therapeutics, theranostics for lung cancer, and molecular profiling of advanced stage lung cancer by minimally invasive procedures. He has numerous ongoing clinical trials looking at the application of new technology in Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology. He has captured over 11 million dollars in research funding over the past 10 years.

Dr. Yasufuku is very active in International Societies related to Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology. He is also Associate Editor for the Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, Associate Editor for Respiration, STS Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery E-book and the Editor in Chief for the World Association for Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology Newsletter.