Ms Carol Tan

Miss Carol Tan is a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in London, UK. She qualified from the University of Bristol in 1997. Following the completion of basic surgical training she went to train in cardiothoracic surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, and the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Her research was predominantly focused on pleural disease and she was involved in the UK multi centre MARS (Mesothelioma and Radical Surgery) trial, and has been a member of the Trial Steering Committee for the MARS 2 Trial. She was awarded the SCTS Scholarship for Thoracic Surgery and visited three large thoracic units in USA in 2009 prior to joining St George’s Hospital as a consultant thoracic surgeon and honorary Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Royal Marsden Hospital from 2009 to 2023. She returned to Guy's Hospital in August 2023. She has a particular interest in minimally invasive surgery including Robotic thoracic surgery, chest wall resection and reconstruction, thoracic oncology, clinical trials and research. She has been heavily involved with NTN training having been appointed SCTS Thoracic Surgical Tutor in 2017, before taking up the role of SCTS Education Secretary from 2020-2022. She is currently involved with the SCTS Annual Meeting Committee as Associate Meetings Secretary.

Special interests: Lung cancer, mediastinal tumours, thymoma, empyema, mesothelioma, thoracic endometriosis, pleural effusion pneumothorax, rib injury, rib pain. Procedures: Bronchoscopy, Minimally invasive Lung cancer surgery, Robotic surgery, Segmentectomy, Lobectomy, Thoracoscopy or VATS, Thoracic surgical oncology