Mr Eric Lim

Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
Royal Brompton Hospital

Biography
Mr Eric Lim studied at the University of Sheffield and trained in cardiothoracic surgery in Cambridge and London.

He was the recipient of an MRC scholarship and was awarded an MSc in Biostatistics and an MD for surgical research.

He joined the Royal Brompton Hospital in 2007 as a consultant thoracic surgeon and leads the hospital’s Cancer Research Consortia.
Mr Lim specialises in thoracic surgical diseases, with a strong focus on patient care, aspiring to make thoracic surgery that causes the least amount of pain and disruption to the patient’s life as possible.

Holding leadership positions both nationally and internationally places Mr Lim at the forefront of his speciality, providing balanced and authoritative opinions on patient and clinical care for patients with advanced lung cancer, where surgery is being considered or when patients who have been declined surgery because they were considered too high risk.

Awards:
2020 Robert J. Ginsberg Lectureship Award for Surgery, awarded by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC)