1.1 Professional Experience

Director of the Thoracic Surgery Service at Juaneda Hospital, Balearic Islands. January 2024 to present.

Member of UmiCS (Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit).

Director of the Thoracic Surgery Service at the University Clinic of Navarra. February 2022 to November 2023.

Thoracic Surgeon Consultant at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the University Clinic of Navarra from March 2015 to November 2023.

Fellowship in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom, from August 2013 to February 2015.

Fellowship in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom, from February to August 2013.

Thoracic Surgeon Consultant at the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor from September to October 2012.

Observership at Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom, from August 13 to 25, 2012.

Training period at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM). Advanced VATS techniques refinement. Department of Thoracic Surgery (Dr. Gossot) from January 15 to March 15, 2011, Paris, France.

Collaboration in the Lung Transplant Program at the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, from December 2008 to May 2012. (Participation in coordination, explants, implantation, and postoperative management of transplant patients).

Physical presence, on-call service in the thoracic surgery department of the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, from December 2008 to May 2012.

Medical intern resident in the Thoracic Surgery Service at the Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, completed 5 years. Badalona (Barcelona) from May 2007 to May 2012.

1.2 Biography

Dr. Miguel Mesa-Guzmán MD, PhD, FEBTS

Professor Miguel Mesa-Guzmán graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the Health Sciences School of the University of Carabobo, Venezuela (MD). He trained in Thoracic Surgery at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital and the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebrón in Barcelona, Spain.

During his training, he spent time at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM) in Paris (France) in the Department of Thoracic Surgery with Dr. Gossot, acquiring advanced surgical refinement in minimally invasive thoracic surgery techniques, and also collaborated in the Lung Transplant Program at the Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebrón in Barcelona.

After completing his training, he worked in the Thoracic Surgery Service at the Hospital Universitario Sagrat Cor in Barcelona and carried out two Clinical Fellowships in the United Kingdom, in the Thoracic Surgery Service at Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust, Nottingham, and at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospital NHS Trust in London for 3 years.

He obtained the European Board Certification in Thoracic Surgery (FEBTS) by the European Union of Medical Specialists UEMS and the European Society of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS) in 2014.

He is currently the Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the Juaneda Clinic in the Balearic Islands and a member of UMICS Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Unit along with Dr. Javier Gallego Poveda and Dr. Diego González-Rivas.

He has been the Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the University Clinic of Navarra, promoting and developing the video-assisted minimally invasive surgery program and the robotic surgical program since his robotic certification in 2018.

He is a Doctor of Philosophy / PhD in Medicine and Surgery with Cum Laude distinction since 2020.

He continued his education as a teaching collaborator for MIR residents at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Navarra. He teaches in various prestigious advanced video thoracoscopy surgery courses around the world.

As a researcher, he has given more than 60 lectures and presentations at national and international conferences. He has participated in 20 articles published in national and international scientific journals and collaborated on 2 book chapters.

His interests focus on uniportal minimally invasive surgery (U-VATS + U-RATS), quality in postoperative management of thoracic patients, enhanced recovery, lung cancer, lung cancer screening in at-risk patients, diagnostic biomarkers, mediastinal tumors, chest wall deformities, hyperhidrosis, among others.

He received the SEPAR Patient Award given by the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery and the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in Medicine, awarded by the University of Navarra in 2020