Born in Barcelona, Spain, and graduated from Barcelona University Medical School in 1980. He followed specialty training in thoracic surgery at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation, Madrid, Spain, and was board-certified in thoracic surgery in 1985. He received his PhD degree in 1986 from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has been attending thoracic surgeon at Mutua Terrassa University Hospital, in Spain, since 1989, and clinical chief since 2017. He has authored over 160 articles in indexed journals. His major interests are lung cancer staging, surgical treatment of lung cancer, thoracic oncology in general, and Graham Greene.