PhD in Nursing from the University of Salamanca. Master’s Degree in Oncology and Palliative Care from the University of Salamanca. She dedicated a large part of her working life to healthcare work as Nursing Coordinator of the Oncology Service of the Santísima Trinidad General Hospital in Salamanca, while at the same time maintaining her research activity as an active member of the Spanish Oncology Nursing Society (SEEO), mainly focused on chemotherapy treatment.

In 2017 she defended her thesis entitled ‘Nursing guide for the use of antineoplastic drugs in solid tumours in oncology’ for which she obtained the qualification of Outstanding Cum Laude.

After completing her thesis, she began her teaching activity as an associate lecturer at the Pontifical University of Salamanca in the Faculty of Health Sciences, and from 2021 as a full-time lecturer at the School of Nursing in Avila, an affiliated centre of the University of Salamanca, a post she currently holds.

Research interests:

• Effect of cryotherapy on the prevention of alopecia in eyebrows and eyelashes with the collaboration of the TIDOP research group.
• Coordination of the Working Group ‘Guide to antineoplastic drugs’, which serves as a reference for most of the nursing staff in oncohaematology units.
• ‘Not to do in lung cancer’ in collaboration with the Spanish Society for Quality of Care (SECA).
• Nursing-led project for the treatment of Buruli ulcers developed in Benin, Africa, in collaboration with the NGO Humanite Oblige Partage Nenin (HOP/BENIN).