Wentao Fang, MD

Prof. Wentao Fang is Professor and Chief Surgeon in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University Medical School, and also serves as the Director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program.

After having obtained his doctoral degree in Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical School, he completed his residency in Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital. He achieved his fellowship in the Division of Esophageal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan and then became the Clinical Research Fellow in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School.

Prof. Fang is capable of full range of thoracic procedures and has exclusive experience in minimally invasive (including Robotic) thoracic surgery, pulmonary resection for benign and malignant diseases, systemic lymph node dissection for esophageal cancer, anti-reflux procedures for GERD and thymectomy for thymoma and myasthenia gravis.

He holds active roles in multiple international professional societies. He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), serving on the Staging and Prognostic Factor Committee, Data Quality Committee, and Multidisciplinary Clinical Science Committee, and is Chair of the Thymic Domain M Factor Subcommittee. He also serves as Co-Chair of the 2026 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

He is Chair of the Education Committee of the International Thymic Malignancy Interest Group (ITMIG), and a member of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS, Thoracic Domain Committee), and the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS, Thoracic Domain Committee).