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Ilkka Ilonen

Chief Physician, MD, PhD, Adjunct Professor

HUS Heart and Lung Center, Pulmonary and Esophageal Surgery Ward M11

Education

Surgical Leadership Program Harvard Medical School MA USA 2021
Executive MBA Program, Aalto EE 2021
Fellow of American College of Surgeons USA 2020
Adjunct Professor (Docent) Cardiothoracic Surgery University of Helsinki FI 2019
Fellow of European Board of Thoracic Surgery UEMS 2018 
Advanced Thoracic Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center NY USA 2017-2018
Board Certified Cardiothoracic Surgeon University of Helsinki FI 2016
ECFMG Certificate USA 2016
MD/PhD Faculty of Medicine University of Helsinki FI  2011 
MD Faculty of Medicine University of Helsinki FI 2008

Research: PI of Happy Lungs research group. Main interest in Lung, Pleural and Oesophageal Malignancies. Over 45 publications.

Specialities

Minimally Invasive General Thoracic and Oesophageal Surgery, incl. advanced endosopic therapies (EBUS and navigational bronchoscopy).

Languages
Finnish, Swedish, English
Positions of responsibility

Level 1 examiner European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery, European Chair for Annual Resident competition Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS), Cancer Research Steering Board Helsinki University Hospital

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