Paula Ugalde Figueroa, MD

Associate Thoracic Surgeon
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States

In 2013, she was recruited to Quebec and began her tenure as an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at Laval University. She was named director of the Thoracic Oncology research program of the Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ) at Laval University in 2015 and was promoted to clinical professor in 2019.
Dr. Ugalde established herself as a thoracic surgeon dedicated to research. She has an extensive record of publications including an impressive body of work on thoracic surgery using innovative uniportal VATS approaches for lung cancer. She has also participated in Canadian national clinical research groups. Dr. Ugalde oversaw the creation of the lung cancer database at Laval University, and under her guidance, the university became the largest contributor in the world of cases to the prospective database maintained by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). She was awarded the Clifton F. Mountain Lectureship Award for Staging from the IASLC in 2019, and due to this effort, she was appointed Chair of the Database Committee of Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee of the IASLC in 2019. In 2019, Dr. Ugalde was accepted as a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS). She has performed peer-review for the society’s journals as well as for other journals including the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and given lectures at AATS symposia and worldwide. Additionally, she has helped introduce minimally invasive thoracic surgery in Brazil and Latin America through courses and one-on-one mentoring, including teaching a Latin American fellow in Quebec each year who then returns to his or her home country. Additionally, Dr. Ugalde pursues this mission as co-chair of International Affairs for the Women in Thoracic Surgery society.

Nothing to disclose.

Presentation(s):

• In the OR with Paula A. Ugalde, MD: Uniport Segmentectomy and Left Lower Lobectomy

  Saturday, January 21, 2023
  11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT