Mr Andrea Bille is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at Kings College University, London. He specialises in the treatment of thoracic conditions and performs surgeries for a range of conditions including pneumothorax, pectus deformity, infection of the pleura/empyema, rib fractures, pleural effusion, lung cancer, thymoma, mesothelioma, and masses/lesions in the mediastinum.

Mr Bille qualified in 2005 from the University of Turin and trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Italy and at Guy’s Hospital, London. He undertook a clinical fellowship at Guy’s Hospital focusing on mesothelioma surgery and minimally invasive thoracic surgery for lung cancer and benign conditions. In 2013, he was appointed as a consultant at the National Institute of Cancer in Milan, focusing on the surgical treatment of lung cancer, thoracic sarcoma, and mediastinal tumours requiring extensive resection and complex reconstruction.

In 2014/15, Mr Bille undertook a clinical fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in the US, where he trained in thoracoscopy and robotic surgery for thoracic malignancies. He completed his PhD in 2015, focusing on the surgical treatment of mesothelioma. Mr Bille has published extensively and presented at conferences worldwide. He is the Associate Editor of the thoracic section of the Tumori Journal and the Journal of Thoracic Disease.

Mr Bille is involved in several research projects on lung cancer, thymoma, and mesothelioma, analysing the role of surgery and new multimodality approaches. He is a member of the thymoma and mesothelioma international staging committee and chairs the mesothelioma database of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS). He has developed an interest in robotic surgery for diaphragmatic diseases, including diaphragmatic elevation paralysis and diaphragmatic endometriosis.