Dr. Juan Carlos García-Valdecasas Salgado
Languages: Spanish | Catalan | English
CURRENT POSITION
- Head of the Service of General, Digestive and Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery and Transplantation at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.
- Faculty Chair of Surgery at the Universitat de Barcelona
- Professor with Tenure of Surgery and Surgical Specialties at the Universitat de Barcelona
- IDIBAPS Investigator (Institut d'investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer). Universitat de Barcelona Medical School
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ACADEMIC TRAINING
- Bachelor in medicine: 1976 Universitat de Barcelona
- PhD: 1979 Universitat de Barcelona
- Specialty: General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, 1978 Universitat de Barcelona
- Fellowship: Fellow of the European Board of Surgery (Transplantation). Union Européenne de Medecins Spécialistes (UEMS), Section of Surgery. Porto, Octubre 2010
EXPERIENCE
More than 30 years of experience.
Specialisation
· Living donor liver transplantation.
· Liver cancer: Hepatocellular carcinoma.
· Colorectal cancer: metastatic colorectal canver liver disease. Major Hepatectomies.
Success rates
· Spain's first living donor liver transplantation, 2000
· Spain’s first non-heart-beating donor transplant, 2002.
· World reference in non-heart-beating donor organ extraction. (regional normothermic perfusion)..
· More than 1900 transplants (Patient survival 99% and 75% at 1rst and 5th years)
· More than 250 highly complex liver resections.
RESEARCH
- Author of more than 100 national and international scientific publications
- 15 book chapters
- Invited to more than 570 national and international events
- Participation in more than 320 national and international scientific meetings
