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Miss Sara Tenconi is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.  She is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (Eng) she is specialised in Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Mesothelioma surgery and Lung Volume Reduction for Emphysema. She has a Master in Thoracic Robotic Surgery.

She is a core member of the Lung cancer MDT and of the Advanced Emphysema MDT.

She is a Co-investigator of the MARS 2 Trial for Sheffield, for which she routinely performs Extended Pleurectomy Decortication. She has been the Principal Investigator of Randomised Controlled Trials on the effect or rehabilitation on surgical patients (PuReAIR) and  lung volume reduction (CELEB).

She has been a speaker at national and international meetings and has published in peer reviewed journals and books.  She is a member of the European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgeons, the International Association for the Study on Lung Cancer and the International Mesothelioma Interest Group.

Qualifications & Accreditations

Upper secondary school diploma Gallarate, Italy - 1996

Medical board certification, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy - 2004

License to practice, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy - 2005

Thoracic Surgery Residency Certificate of Completion, Siena, Italy – 2010

General Medical Council (UK) registration with License to practice, Cardiothoracic Surgery Specialist Register, Manchester 2013

Master Course in Thoracic Robotic Surgery – Pisa, Italy 2017

Fellowship of the Royal college of Surgeons (Eng) ad eundem, London 2019

Additional Information

Publications:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara_Tenconi

Areas of specialist interest:

Minimally invasive thoracic surgery

Malignant (mesothelioma)

Benign pleural disease (empyema)

Surgical and endo-bronchial treatment of emphysema

Clinical research