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Dr. Hussein Elkhayat graduated as a medical doctor at Assiut University, Egypt. In 2009 he obtained his master's degree in general surgery and finished his residency program in cardiothoracic surgery. He chose his MD thesis about VATS in benign diseases and traveled to Turkey to be trained on VATS for a short fellowship then returned back to Egypt and started a VATS program in his center. After finishing his doctoral degree in cardiothoracic surgery in 2014, Hussein focused on minimally invasive thoracic surgery. He became a fellow of the European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery (FEBCTS) in 2021. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of cardiothoracic surgery at the Faculty of Medicine at Assiut University. Hussein is an international trainer for many advanced VATS training programs and the founder of the Assiut VATS workshop, the largest hands-on training in Egypt. He is also an instructor for Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Care for the critically ill surgical patient course (CCrISP). He currently acts as an international board member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery EACTS thoracic domain and acts as an active member of STS, ESTS, PATS and ESCTS. His areas of interest are minimally invasive thoracic surgery, VATS decortications, lung cancer and thymic surgery.