ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Specialist in General and Digestive System Surgery. May 2012.

· Certificate - Diploma in Specialisation in Ultrasonography for surgeons, course at the University of Zaragoza, undertaken from February to May 2011.

· Qualification in University Specialist in Laparoscopic Surgery awarded by the University of Santiago de Compostela, two-year, post-graduate course in the 2009-2010 period.

· Certificate - Diploma in Advanced Studies in the field of SURGERY, in Health Sciences Programme (Equivalent to Master and Expert Qualification), carried out under the direction of the Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology Department of the University of Vigo, accredited with RESEARCH SUFFICENCY, after completing the Third Cycle of the 2008-2010 study period at the University.

· Graduated in Medicine from the University of Santiago de Compostela(A Coruña) with official University Qualification of Graduate in Medicine (2006).

· Doctor in Health Sciences from the University of Vigo.

· DOCTORAL THESIS: “Pilot study of complications in thyroid surgery according to surgery team specialisation” UNIVERSITY OF VIGO. FEBRUARY 2016.

· Master inColoprotology, University of Zaragoza 2015

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

· Doctor in the on-call team for General and Digestive System Surgery at the University Hospital Complex of Ourense, from May 2012 to the current day.

· Specialist doctor in General and Digestive System Surgery in the El Carmen Medical Centre, Ourense, from May 2012 to the current day..

· 5th year Resident Medical Intern in the General and Digestive System Surgery Service at the Ourense Hospital Complex (CHOU) located at C/ Ramón Puga nº 52 - 54 (Postcode: 32005), after undertaking the 2006 Selection Exams for access in 2007 to Specialist Health Training posts for Doctors, Pharmacists, Chemists, Biologists, Biochemists, Psychologists and Hospital Radiation Physicists; and finalisation of the training period on 24th May, 2012.

· Residents’ representative on the Managing Board of the Galician Digestive Pathology Society for the 2010-2012 period.

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

· “Complications in thyroid surgery in our medium. Retrospective study 1998-2009”.

Research work carried out for assessment for Research Sufficiency, undertaken in the second year of the 2008-2010 period as part of the Third Cycle “Health Sciences” doctorate programmeat the University of Vigo. Qualification obtained: Distinction.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

· "Liver hilum ganglion tuberculosis as a cause of obstructive jaundice”. Accepted for publication in Cirugía Española, Ref. CIRESP-11-368R1.

· Presentation of the talk entitled “Why a closure can complicate” as part of the course “Handling complicated abdominal closure, use of biological protheses (PermacolTM)”, Held at the Diputación Provincial Ourense Cultural Centre on 16th and 17th February 2012.

· Presentation of the talk entitled “Melanoma intestinal metastasis” as part of the Clinical Session of the General and Digestive System Surgery Services, held at the University Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela on 18th of February, 2011.

ATTENDANCE AT COURSES AND SEMINARS

· “12thendocrine training course for residents”, run by the Spanish Association of Surgeons at the Virgen del RocíoHospital in Seville, on the 11th, 12thand 13th April 2012.

· Attendance at the “2nd Congress on livecoloproctological surgery: pelvic floor pathology”, organised by the Colorectal Surgery Unit of the University Hospital Complex of Ourense Surgery Service, held on 22nd March, 2012.

· 3rdspecialisation diploma in “Ultrasonography for surgeons”, at the University of Zaragoza, undertaken from February to May 2012.

· Attendance at the “1st Congress of live coloproctological surgery: perianalfistual”, organised by the Colorectal Surgery Unit of the University Hospital Complex of Ourense Surgery Service, held on 31st March, 2011.

· “118th ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) Course” organised by the Spanish Association of Surgeons on the basis of the programme demanded by the Trauma Committee of the American College of Surgeons, held in Ourense on 24th, 25thand 26thMarch, 2011.

· Attendance at the “19th International Congress in Coloproctological” Held at the Baiona National Parador Hotel (Pontevedra) on the 23rd, 24thand 25thof February 2011.

· 11th Theoretical-Practical Course in Laparoscopic Surgery (E841), Official post-graduate Course at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), held in Lugo on 26th,27th, 28th and 29th May; and 23rd ,24th, 25th and 26thof June 2010 at the RofCodina Veterinary Hospital in Lugo.

· Attendance at the “2nd Meeting on Advances in Surgery” held in Santiago de Compostela on 25th June, 2009

· Undertaking of the following doctorate courses within the first year of the 2008-2010 period of the Third Cycle in the “Health Sciences” doctorate programme, given by the University of Vigo in order to obtain the Advanced Studies Diploma.:

o Advances in Tumor Pathology of the Digestive System

o Advances in breastsurgery

o Acute Post-opPain

o Protocols for analgesia in out-patient surgery.

o Current indications for botulinum toxin.

o Advances in Endocrinology, medical-surgical controversies.

o Radiofrequency as an alternative in spinal pathology: indications, techniques and cost-result ratios.

· “11th Course on Groin Hernia Surgery” held at the Getafe University Hospital (Madrid) on 26th and 27th November, 2008. Abdominal Wall Section of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC).

· “Basic Experimental Microsurgery” course, undertaken in Ourense from 9th to 13th June, 2008.

· “Acute Post-op Pain and Laparoscopic Techniques”, held in Santiago de Compostela28thNovember, 2007.

· “6th Course on Basic Experimental Microsurgery”, undertaken in Ourense from 22nd to 26th October, 2007.

· “Advanced life support” course, undertaken in Ourense from 11th to 15th June, 2007