ACADEMIC DETAILS:

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery atthe Faculty of Medicine, Santiago de Compostela

(Class of 1983-1989).

Resident Intern in General and Digestive System Surgery.

. Access to Offician Spanish Intern system in 1991

. General Surgery at the Cristal-Piñor Hospital Complex

in Ourense.

Medical Specialist in General and Digestive System Surgery.

Qualified in Laparoscopic Surgery Specialisation at the University of Santiago

deCompostela (3rd SPECIALISATION COURSE - 200 CLASS HOURS- 20 CREDITS). 1997

Qualified in Echography for Surgeons Specialisation at the University of Zaragoza (DIPLOMA IN THE SPECIALISATION IN ECOGRAPHY FOR SURGEONS - 120 CLASS HOURS- 12 CREDITS). 2011.

CLINICAL-HEALTHCARE TRAINING:

Resident Intern Doctor in General and Digestive System Surgery during the period from January 1992 to December 1996 in the General Surgery Service at the Cristal Piñor Hospital Complex in Ourense (Head of Service, Dr. Francisco Gómez Lorenzo).

Healthcare experience:

.Supply doctor in Primary Healthcare from December 1989 to October 1990.

.Area Specialist Doctor in General Surgery at the FundaciónPública Hospital Verínfrom 2nd January 1997 to 12th December 2005.

.Mammary Pathology Unit Coordinator at theFundaciónPública Hospital Verínfrom July 2001 to December 2005.

.Area Specialist Doctor in General Surgery at the University Hospital Complex of Ourense from 12th December 2005 to the current day. Currently working in the Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery Unit.

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING COURSES:

“CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION COURSE”

Ourense, May 1992

“3rd COURSE ON EPIDEMIOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER”

Santiago de Compostela, 25-29 January 1993

10class hours

“COURSE ON THE LATEST ADVANCES IN THE PREVENTION AND TREATMEN OF BREAST CANCER”

A Coruña, 25thFebruary 1994

10class hours

“13th COURSE ON INFECTION IN SURGERY”

Santiago de Compostela, 9-11May 1994

20class hours

“43rd INTERNATIONAL COURSE ON ABDOMINAL SURGERY”

Clinical Hospital,Barcelona 28thNovember, 2ndDecember 1994.

48class hours

“COURSE ON EMERGENCY SURGERY”

12 de Octubre Hospital, Madrid (Dr. Sierra), 22-24 April 1998

30class hours - 5,5Credits

“11th COURSE ON ADVANCED LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY”

Dr. PestetHospital, Valencia (Dr. Delgado Gomis), 28-30 April 2004.

24class hours

“CLINICAL EXPERIMENTAL COURSE ON LAPAROSCOPIC COLORECTAL SURGERY”

Marqués de ValdecillaFoundation, Santander,14-16 March 2007.

30class hours - 4,4 Credits

“12th COURSE ON BASIC EXPERIMENTAL MICROSURGERY”

Ourense Hospital Complex. Experimental Microsurgery Laboratory

2-6 March2004.

28class hours - 5,5 Credits

“EFFICIENT SEARCHING FOR ONLINE BIO-MEDICAL INFORMATION”

GrupoSaned – Meditec (September 2008 - September 2009)

60class hours - 12,6 Credits

“1st COURSE ON THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BARIATRIC AND METABOLIC SURGERY”

Spanish Association of Surgeons. Morbid Obesity Surgery Section

April - 2010

120class hours - 15,8 Credits

“ONE DAY ON TECHNIQUES OF LIVER RESECTION”

European Postgraduate Gastro-Surgical School. Academic Medical Center. Universite of Amsterdam.

March - 2011

6 Credits

“ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN GENERAL AND DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGERY – MODULE 1”

Spanish Association of Surgeons.

March - 2012

100class hours - 14,3 Credits

PUBLICATIONS:

-“STOMACH SMOOTH MUSCLE TUMOURS (20 CASES).”

Revista Gallega de Patología Digestiva 1992; 2,2 (29-3)

-“GIANT BREAST CYST AND MAMMARY CARCINOMA: UNUSUAL PRESENTATION OF CLINCAL CASE”.

Revista Española de Senología y Patología Mamaria 1996; 9,1 (46-48)

-“NEW ALTERNATIVES IN HAEMORRHOID TREATMENT”.

Revista Galega de Actualidade Sanitaria 2001; 1,3 (178-179)

-“REPORT ON THE CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES WHEN INCLUDING PATIENTS ON SURGERY WAITING LISTS”

Cirugía Española* 2002; 72(6): 349-58

-“PERFORATED COLON AND TYPE IV EHLERS-DANLOS SYDROME: SUB TOTAL LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY”

Cirugía Española* 2009; 86: 47-9

“SPLENIC PELIOSIS AS CAUSE OF SPONTANEOUS SPLENIC RUPTURE”

Cirugía Española* 2010; 87: 48-9

-“AUTOCHTHONOUS AMEBIC LIVER ABSCESS”

Cirugía Española* 2010; 87: 120-2

-“LIVER HILUM GANGLION TUBERCULOSIS AS A CAUSE OF OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE”

-Accepted for publication inCirugía Española* .Ref. CIRESP-11-368R1