Professional Designation Consultant and Honorary Consultant
Department Cardiothoracic Surgery
Organization of Employment
  • CUHK Medical Center in Hong Kong
  • Gleneagles Hong Kong  Hospital
Degrees MBBChir, FRCSEd(CTh), FCSHK, FHKAM
 

Profile

Dr. Sihoe received his medical training at the University of Cambridge, and after working in Scotland and England, he returned to practice Cardiothoracic Surgery in Hong Kong and China, with a special interest in minimally invasive  Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS). He was Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the  University of Hong Kong and Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Hospital before recently moving to private practice in Hong Kong. Dr Sihoe is currently Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the  CUHK Medical Center in Hong Kong, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Gleneagles Hong Kong  Hospital. 

Dr. Sihoe is an internationally recognized advocate of ‘next generation’ VATS techniques – especially uniportal and needlescopic chest surgery. He has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference abstracts and book chapters in the international literature. His work in thoracic surgery and clinical research has won multiple awards – including from the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS) and the International Society for Minimally  Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). In 2018, Dr Sihoe was the recipient of the Medical Sciences Technical  Award (2nd Class) from the Chinese Medical Association. In 2023, he received the Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award in  Surgery from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). Dr Sihoe recently stepped down from over a decade of service as the Thoracic Surgery Editor for three of the most important international Cardio-Thoracic  Surgery journals: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Asian Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Annals. Dr Sihoe has previously served in leadership roles in multiple Cardio-Thoracic Surgery societies in Europe and Asia, and he is one of the very few Thoracic Surgeons to have been invited to perform surgery and lecture on every continent in the world.

Education

  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery – University of Cambridge, UK 
  • Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 
  • Fellow, College of Surgeons of Hong Kong 
  • Fellow, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine

Recent & Current Appointments and Committee Memberships

  • International Director, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
  • Secretary General, Asia Thoracoscopic Surgery Education Platform (ATEP)
  • Council Member, Asian Society for Cardio-Vascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS)
  • Council Member, Hong Kong Society of Minimal Access Surgery (HKSMAS)
  • Specialist Advisor, Hong Kong Society of Medical Oncology

Research Interests

Thoracic Surgery

  • 2018 – Medical Sciences Technical Award (2nd Class) from the Chinese Medical Association
  • 2023 – Tsuguo Naruke Lectureship Award in Surgery from the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)

  • 2022, Thoracic surgery worldwide, Sihoe ADL. DOI: 10.21037/jtd-2022-01
  • 2022. Expert consensus on indocyanine green fluorescence imaging for thoracoscopic lung resection (The Version 2022) Cui F, Liu J, Du M, Fan J, Fu J, Geng Q, He M, Hu J, Li B, Li S, Li X, Liao YD, Lin L, Liu F, Liu J, Lv J, Pu Q, Tan L, Tian H, Wang M, Wang T, Wei L, Xu C, Xu S, Xu S, Yang H, Yu BT, Yu G, Yu Z, Lee CY, Pompeo E, Azari F, Igai H, Kim HK, Andolfi M, Hamaji M, Bassi M, Karenovics W, Yutaka Y, Shimada Y, Sakao Y, Sihoe ADL, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhao J, Zhong W, Zhu Y, He J.  Doi: 10.21037/tlcr-22-810.
  • 2017, Training in Uniportal Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery.  Alberto Sandri, Alan D L Sihoe,  Michele Salati, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Alessandro Brunelli.  DOI: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2017.06.010
  • 2016.  Uniportal video-assisted thoracic (VATS) lobectomy.  Alan D L Sihoe.  DOI: 10.21037/acs.2016.03.14
  • 2016.  Made for each other. Sihoe ADL, Gonzalez-Rivas D. DOI: 10.21037/jovs.2018.05.12