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Ioana Baiu is a thoracic surgeon and clinical researcher whose work centers on surgical oncology, minimally invasive thoracic surgery, and comparative outcomes research. Her investigations have meaningfully advanced the understanding of how surgical approach — open versus minimally invasive — affects patient outcomes in thoracic malignancies, particularly lung cancer and thymic tumors. Baiu's most cited work, a national analysis of thymectomy approaches for thymic carcinoma (2022, 25 citations), leveraged the National Cancer Data Base to evaluate the oncological equivalence of minimally invasive techniques in a historically understudied cancer. Her complementary 2020 study on segmentectomy for early-stage non–small-cell lung cancer (15 citations) similarly interrogated whether less invasive resections compromise survival — a question of growing clinical urgency as lung cancer screening expands. More recently, she has extended her research into emerging frontiers, including minimally invasive resection following chemoimmunotherapy and resource utilization comparisons between video-assisted and robotic thoracic platforms. Collectively, Baiu's scholarship bridges surgical technique and population-level outcomes, providing evidence that informs both clinical decision-making and health systems planning. Her contributions position her as a rigorous voice in the evolving conversation about surgical innovation and value in thoracic oncology.
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