Dr. Wickii Thambiah Vigneswaran

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Dr. Wickii Vigneswaran worked previously at Loyola University from 1998 to 2005 before joining the nearby University of Chicago Cancer Center, where he helped build programs for lung transplantation and mesothelioma treatment.

He returned to Loyola University Medical Center for a second stint in 2016 when he was named chief of thoracic surgery.

The goal in returning to Loyola was to build a nationally recognized thoracic oncology surgery program that included advanced treatment of mesothelioma, something it previously lacked.

He started Loyola’s first multidisciplinary mesothelioma tumor board, which now meets biweekly to discuss each patient.

Vigneswaran has performed almost 300 surgeries for mesothelioma patients in his career, doing the aggressive extrapleural pneumonectomy and the lung-sparing but more detailed pleurectomy and decortication.

He has been a national leader in the belief that age alone should not be a deterrent to aggressive, potentially curative surgery for mesothelioma.

He also has extensive experience in minimally invasive robotics and video-assisted thoracic surgery, which is being used with different lung diseases.

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