Willfredy Castano

42 years old Thoracic Surgeon with over 9 Years of successful experience in Lung and Thoracic cancers, infectious diseases thoracic surgery and airway endoscopic management. Recognized consistently for performance excellence and contributions to success in thoracic surgery. Strengths in proposals to advance, teaching, interdisciplinary work and excellent relationship with patients. Motivated to learn, grow and bring excelence to all the patients

Colombian Association of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery-Asoneumocito

• Pleural suction additional to thoracostomy tube for traumatic hemothorax. In progress-recruiting. Clinicaltrials.gov: NCT04525365
• Relationship of echocardiographic and coronary angiographic findings in patients with acute myocardial infarction secondary to penetrating cardiac trauma. Castano W, Morales CH, Senior JM, Benjumea WY, Sanchez J. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2012 Jul;73(1):111-6
• Atypical mediastinal parathyroid adenoma and post-operative hungry bone syndrome. Castano Ruiz, Wilfredy; García-Herreros Hellal, Luis Gerardo; Jiménez Quijano, Andrés; Friedrich Spirandeli, Thalia; Sánchez Vallejo, Carlos Andrés. Rev. colomb. neumol ; 22(3)sept. 2010.
• Lung cancer seventh TNM clasification. Castano W. Rev. colomb. neumol ; 21(4): 199-208, dic. 2009.
• Management and evolution of hepatic tumors with acute bleeding. Hoyos S, Castano W. Revista Colombiana de Cirugía. 2008 Jul-Sep;23(3):01-047

Book Chapters

• VATS in Trauma, Chest wall trauma. Trauma, Second Edition. Ed. Universidad de Antioquia. 2015
• Thoracic trauma. Handbook of rules and procedures in trauma, 4th Edition. Ed. Universidad de Antioquia. 2015
• Thoracic trauma. Emergencies in prehospital care, First Edition. Ed. CIB. 2011

Master in Thoracic Oncology (In progress)-Cardenal Herrera University-Spain

• International Thoracic Surgical Oncology Summit. AATS. October 2020
• 13th Annual Duke Masters of Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery. Duke Surgery. September 2020
• Second International Course on Mediastinal Staging in Lung Cancer. ALAT. November 2020
• XVII Colombian Congress of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery. Aug-2017. Barranquilla-Colombia

Latinoamerican and Classic guitar