EXPERIENCE
- More than 25 years of experience
- Full Medical License- Spain & Massachusetts (USA)
Specialities
· Gastroenterology and Hepatology
· Liver transplantation
· Liver Elastography- FIBROSCAN
· Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERCP) and cholangioscopy
· Advanced diagnostic (gastroscopy and colonoscopy) and interventional endoscopy
Areas of interest
· Liver and biliary diseases
· Liver cirrhosis and its complications
· Fatty liver disease
· Non-invasive endoscopy procedures in patients with liver disease
· Interventional endoscopy procedures in patients with liver and biliary disease
· Portal hypertension
· Biliary complications after liver transplantation
Success rates
- More than 2000 procedures performed per year. Success in >95% (last 5 years)
- Complications in less than 0.1% of cases in gastroscopy and colonoscopy. And less than 5% in ERCP & interventional endoscopy
RESEARCH
- More than 200 papers in indexed journals, 85 book chapters
- H index of 44 and a RG score of 4.135
- Author and Editor of 4 Academic Books
- Invited speaker at over 175 national and international scientific meetings.
- Director and Mentor of 4 Doctoral MD Theses.
- Continuous and competitive public and private funding for national and international research projects.
- Accredited Investigator – Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi-Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Spain.
- Accredited Investigator - The Liver and Digestive Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Center CIBEREHD, Spain
- Deputy Editor- Liver Transplantation Journa and Editorial Board Member in over 10 Indexed Medical Journals
- Accredited Professor and Researcher - Catalan Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, Barcelona
- Secretary General (Elected)- International Association for the Study of Liver Disease (IASL)