Isabelle Opitz

Professor Isabelle Opitz is Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Chair of the Lung Cancer Centre, and Member of both the Robotic and the Transplant Centre Board at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. She is Professor/Ordinaria for Thoracic Surgery at the University of Zurich. Her clinical areas of expertise are the surgical treatment of lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and lung transplantation.  She has received several national and international awards for her research and has acquired more than 13 million Euro grant for her own research. She is the author of more than 240 articles, including 161 original articles, multiple reviews, and book chapters. She is Past President and Past Treasurer of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons. For this society, she also serves as a member of the Robotic Working Group, organizing the newly founded ESTS Robotic Academy and is chair of the Clinical Trial Working Group, the Thoracic European Surgical Trials (TEST) Clinical Trials Platform. She is International Director of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and serves in their Thoracic Education Committee and the Thoracic Clinical Practice Standards Committee. She will be co-chair of IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer 2025 and is a member of the ESMO 2025 and 2026 scientific committee.