Sara de Cabanyes is currently a consultant thoracic surgeon at the Canary Island University Hospital in Tenerife. She started working there after four years of clinical experience in London at the Royal Brompton, Guy’s Hospital and UCLH where she improved her surgical skills in extended lung resections through open and Video Assisted Thoracic (VATS) approach as well as the management of mesotheliomas. Current interest in staging and surgical management of chest malignancies and alternative management of postoperative pain.