Kelvin Lau is a consultant and lead thoracic surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. At the hospital, he set up the thoracic surgery service, introduced VATS lobectomy and endobronchial programmes, and recently, one of the first dedicated 24/7 cardiothoracic robotic surgery programme in the UK.

Kelvin graduated from the University of Oxford in 2002. He received his training in Glenfield Hospital, Nottingham and London, and went on to complete a minimally invasive thoracic surgery fellowship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he served as honorary assistant professor.

Special interests and treatments:

Navigation bronchoscopy for diagnosis, treatment enablement and thermal ablation

Image-guided thoracic surgery in the hybrid theatre

VATS and robotic-assisted operations

Uniportal and biportal VATS lobectomy and segmentectomy

Lung volume reduction surgery and Endobronchial Valve placement

Mesothelioma surgery

Navigation bronchoscopy

Hybrid theatre Image-guided surgery