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Mr. Marco Scarci is a highly respected consultant thoracic surgeon based in London. He is renowned for his expertise in keyhole surgery, particularly in the treatment of lung cancer and pneumothorax (collapsed lung). He also specialises in rib fractures, hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), chest wall deformities and emphysema.
Mr. Scarci qualified as a doctor of medicine with honours in 2001 at Italy’s Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ di Chieti, before pursuing further specialist training in cardiothoracic surgery. He then undertook a clinical fellowship at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital and a senior clinical fellowship in thoracic surgery at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, he completed an additional six-month thoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada in 2011 and that same year, was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Following this, he went on to work at University College London Hospital, San Gerardo Hospital, Italy and Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust, where he is currently based. With his wealth of experience and expertise in both surgical and non-surgical treatment for a wide range of conditions, Mr Scarci is regarded as one of the UK’s leading practitioners in the field of thoracic surgery, whose skill and dedication has been recognised with several awards, including an NHS Clinical Excellence award in 2013. He sees private patients at OneWelbeck, the Harley Street Clinic and the Sainsbury Wing, Imperial Private Healthcare.
GMC: 6159768
• More than 20 years of experience
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, OneWelbeck (present)
Consultant thoracic surgeon, Harley Street Clinic, Diagnostic Centre Devonshire Street (present)
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, Sainsbury Wing, Imperial Private Healthcare (present)
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (2022 – present)
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, San Gerardo Hospital, Italy (2018 – 2021)
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, University College London NHS Foundation Trust (2016 – 2018)
• Consultant thoracic surgeon, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2011 – 2016)
• Chest infection surgery
• Chest wall cancer
• Chest wall deformities (pectus excavatum and carinatum)
• Collapsed lung (pneumothorax)
• Emphysema
• Enhanced recovery and rehabilitation following thoracic surgery
• Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis)
• Facial blushing (erythrophobia)
• Keyhole surgery
• Keyhole thoracic surgery
• Lobectomy
• Lung cancer
• Malignant mesothelioma
• Mediastinal tumours
• Rib deformities
• Rib fractures
• Single incision procedures
• Thoracoscopy
• Thymomas
• Tracheal stenosis
• Tracheobronchial cancer
• Working group member, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (present)
• Co-specialty chief editor for thoracic surgery, Frontiers in Surgery (2023 – present)• Associate editor, Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery (present)
• Associate editor, Journal of Thoracic Disease (present)
• Director of thoracic surgery, San Gerardo Hopsital, Italy (2018 – 2021)
• Former committee member, Database committee, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Former lead on chest wall database, pleural malignancies and chest wall working groups, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Former director, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons’ annual conference
• Current honorary clinical senior lecturer at Imperial College London
• Formerly honorary senior lecturer at University College London
• Senior clinical tutor at University of Cambridge
• MD (Hons), Doctor of Medicine, Honours, Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ di Chieti (2001)
• Diploma of Specialism, Cardiothoracic surgery, Thoracic Surgery Residency Programme, Università degli Studi ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ di Chieti (2002 – 2007)
• Clinical fellow, Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital (2007 – 2008)
• Senior clinical fellowship, Thoracic surgery, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (2008 – 2011)
• Fellowship, Thoracic surgery, University of Toronto (2011)
• Change Leaders Programme, NHS England (2012 – 2013)
• FRCS (Eng), Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England
• FCCP, Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
• FACS, Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• FEBTS, Fellow, European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• You can see some of Mr Scarci’s academic work on ResearchGate.
• M Scarci, A Coonar, T Routledge, F Wells, Core Topics in Thoracic Surgery, Cambridge University Press (2016)
• M Scarci, A D L Sihoe, P Solli, Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, JPMed Publishing (2017)
• M Scarci, A D L Sihoe, B Bedetti, Open Thoracic Surgery, AME Publishing (2017)
• M Scarci, J He, S H Blackmon, Minimally Invasive Thymectomy, AME Publishing (2019)
• NHS Clinical Excellence Award, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2013)
• Staff award, Working Differently Category, Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2013)
• Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Fellow, European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Member, European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Member, European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Member, International Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Member, International Thymic Group Collaboration
• Member, Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons, England and Ireland
• Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons
