Languages: Spanish | Catalan | English
CURRENT POSITION
- Head of the Service of Urology and Kidney Transplantation at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
- Associate professor of Urology in the Department of Surgery at the Universitat de Barcelona.
- IDIBAPS Investigator (Institut de Recerca Biomedica Agusti Pi Suñe). University of Barcelona Medical School.
ACADEMIC TRAINING
- Bachelor of Medicine: 1983 Universitat de Barcelona.
- PhD: 1987 Universitat de Barcelona.
- Specialty: Urology, 1988 Universitat de Barcelona.
- Fellowship: 18 months, 1993-1994 Mayo Clinic Rochester.
EXPERIENCE
More than 30 years of experience.
SPECIALISATION:
- Global pioneer of robotic and laparoscopic surgical techniques (NOTES and LESS techniques).
- Surgical oncology (prostate, kidney and bladder).
- Kidney transplant surgery.
- More than 500 annual surgeries for more than 25 years. More than 100 are performed through natural body cavities.
SUCCESS RATES
- World’s first transvaginal nephrectomy (2007).
- World’s first transvaginal kidney extraction due to a tumour (2009).
- World’s first robotic transvaginal kidney transplant (2015).
RESEARCH
- Author of more than 170 national and international scientific publications and 17 book chapters.
- Invited to numerous European and North American universities. He gives an average of 50 international conferences per year.