{"id":10501,"date":"2022-09-20T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T18:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10501"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:46:25","slug":"christopher-digesu-md","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/christopher-digesu-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Digesu, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Chief of Thoracic Surgery<br \/>\nAssistant Professor of Surgery<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Thoracic Surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Clinical Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Minimally invasive and robotic thoracic surgery<\/li>\n<li>Lung cancer<\/li>\n<li>Esophageal cancer<\/li>\n<li>Paraesophageal hernia<\/li>\n<li>Achalasia<\/li>\n<li>Mediastinal tumors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lung cancer<\/li>\n<li>Surgical health disparities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>See a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=digesu+cs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listing of publications on PubMed<\/a><span>, a service of the National Library of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16453,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16453"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12839,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10501\/revisions\/12839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}