Thoracic Surgery
Professor of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Thoracic Surgery, CHU Ibn Rochd, Morocco
Dr. Souheil Boubia is a thoracic surgeon in the thoracic surgery department at Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca, Morocco. He trained between Rabat, Casablanca and Paris 2000-2006 and then became Professor of thoracic surgery at the Hassan II faculty of medicine in Casablanca in 2011.
He is a founding member of the African Society of Thoracic Surgery, as well as a member of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Staging and Prognostic Factors Committee (IASLC SPFC) and Member of ESTS (European Society Thoracic Surgery) Thoracic Infectious of Surgical Interest working group and ESTS Thymic Working Group.
He participated in the latest edition (9th) of the TNM for lung cancer which will be published in 2024. he is the author of several publications in minimally invasive surgery as well as in surgical thoracic infectious pathology.
He has hosted several Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) masterclasses in more than 20 countries in Africa.
Selected publications from PubMed
Surgical Management of Pulmonary Hydatid Disease.
Moumen A, Boubia S, Ridai M
Thorac Surg Clin. 2026 Aug;36(3):315-322 doi: 10.1016/j.thorsurg.2026.02.009.
Pioneering endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration in North Africa: Results from a prospective Moroccan case series.
Moumen A, Boubia S, El Attar H, Cherkab R, Ridai M
Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med. 2026;32(2):e4054 doi: 10.7196/AJTCCM.2026.v32i2.4054.
Resection of pulmonary aspergilloma using uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: Evaluation of prognostic factors in a single-centre experience.
Waguaf S, Boubia S
J Minim Access Surg. 2026 Apr 13 doi: 10.4103/jmas.jmas_341_25.
Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery in a Mobile Unit in West Africa.
Gresnigt T, Boubia S, Enaami H, Zhao D, Podaru R, Armah R, Akoriyea SK, Gonzalez-Rivas D
Ann Thorac Surg. 2025 Dec;120(6):1012-1015 doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2025.06.052.
Minimally invasive thoracic surgery in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Gresnigt TM, Kabba M, Boubia S, Davies R, Lado M, Kapuwa MI, Coleman PS, Mabanza T, Gofer K, Gonzalez-Rivas D
Lancet Respir Med. 2024 Jan;12(1):19-20 doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(23)00464-2.
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