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Academic training and degrees: Graduate in medicine and surgery. 1972. Bachelor's Revalidation: Outstanding. Complutense University of Madrid. 1972. Doctoral Thesis: Outstanding Cum Laude. Autonomous University of Madrid 1977. ECFMG to practice medicine in the US. 1972. Cardiovascular Surgery Specialist. 1977. Professional activity: Cardiovascular Surgery Residence, Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, 1972-73 and 1974-77. Residency Cardiovascular Surgery University of Connecticut, USA 1973-1974 Infant Cardiac Surgeon, attached to the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid. 1977-2007. Head of the Children's Cardiac Surgery Service at Hospital La Zarzuela 1987-2007 Head of the Children's Cardiac Surgery Service at Montepríncipe University Hospital from 1999 to the present. Head of the Children's Cardiovascular Surgery Service of the Hospital Universitario de La Paz, Madrid 2007-2015. Responsible for Child Heart Surgery of the Canary Islands Health Service of the Canary Islands 2013-15 Head of the Congenital Heart Disease Unit since 1982   Refresher programs: Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: Coronary surgery, 1975. Massachussetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass, USA: Balloon pump, 1975. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA: Surgery for congenital heart disease, 1978 University of Alabama in Birmingham, Ala, USA: Congenital Heart Disease Surgery, 1978 Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass, USA: Congenital Heart Disease Surgery, 1978 Harefield Hospital, Middlesex, England: Heart Transplantation, 1985 .AcademischZiekenhuis Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands: Surgery for pediatric arrhythmias, 1989.Hospital Pitie-Salpetriere and Jean Rostand, Paris, France: Surgery for pediatric arrhythmias, 1991.Hospital Marie-Lannelongue, Paris, France. Congenital Heart Disease Surgery, 1991.UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, USA: Congenital Heart Disease Surgery. Myocardial protection with hematic cardioplegia, 1995, Service de ChirurgieThoracique et Cardio-vasculaire. Hopital Enfants de la Timone. Marseille, France: Surgery of the Transposition of the Great Arteries. 1998.Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass, USA: Congenital Heart Disease Surgery. 2002. Scientific activity: Publications: More than 100 in international and national journals. Books: Author of several chapters in international and national books. Communications to congresses: More than 100 in international and national congresses. Doctoral theses: Director and / or member of the tribunal of several doctoral theses. Editorial committee of scientific journals: Member of the editorial committee of Cardiovascular Surgery (Official Body of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery), Spanish Journal of Cardiology (Official Body of the Spanish Society of Cardiology), Cardiovascular Clinic, European Journal “COR EURO-PAEU -M ”, Spanish Annals of Pediatrics and Spanish Surgery.  

He is an expert in cardiac arrhythmia, pacemaker implantation, internal defibrillators and catheter ablation; and he conducts diagnostic electrophysiological studies.He also carries out extensive teaching work as a Senior Lecturer of the Medicine Department of the Malaga University, where he teaches the subject Diseases of the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems to fourth-year medical students.He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in influential journals. At the same time, he has contributed to the preparation of clinical practice guides and is the author of 23 books and chapters of scientific titles in the speciality. Professional experienceUniversity Degree in Medicine and Surgery (1978) obtained at the Zaragoza University.Degree as Doctor in Medicine by the Zaragoza University with final thesis “Cardiac Automatism and Conduction in a Model of Experimental Heterotopic Cardiac Transplantation. Effects of Verapamil”, which obtained a cum laude award.Training as a Resident Doctor in Cardiology at Clínica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid (1979-1984).Cardiology Medical Consultant and the Head of the Arrhythmia Unit at Clínica Puerta de Hierro (1985-1992).Other positions:Coordinator of the Implantable Defibrillator working team of the Spanish Cardiology Society (2009 – 2016).Member of the European Society of Cardiology.Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association.Member of the Spanish Cardiology Society.Member of the Andalusian Cardiology Society.Member of the Editorial Committee of the Spanish Cardiology Journal.Member of the Editorial Committee of Cardiocore.Member of the Editorial Committee of Cardiac Stimulation Notebooks. The Cardiology Unit of Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital is made up of a medical team with large experience in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases, as well as employing the most advanced technologies, both in the clinical area and in the area of haemodynamics and arrhythmia.Diseases, treatments and techniques:Clinical cardiology- Adult and children cardiology consultation with the performance of supplementary tests, all within one appointment.- Specific consultations for arrhythmia- Paedriatic cardiology- Colour Doppler echocardiography and stress echocardiography- Stress test- 24-hour and long-term Holter EKG- CT coronary angiogram- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- Tilt table testing- Cardiac rehabilitationCardiac haemodynamics- Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and percutaneous treatment of ischaemic heart disease with angioplasty and stent implant- Myocardial infarction percutaneous treatment programme- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)- Percutaneous repair of the mitral valve (Mitral clip)- Percutaneous closure of interatrial communication- Percutaneous closure of left atrial appendage Arrhythmia Unit - Diagnostic electrophysiological study - Catheter ablation - Cryoablation of atrial fibrillation - Ablation using a complex arrhythmic substrate navigator - Pacemaker implantation - Automatic endovenous and subcutaneous implantabledefibrillatorCardiac surgery - Surgery with and without extracorporeal circulation- Minimally-invasive surgery with an early extubation- Repair of mitral and aortic valves

Experience On his return from London, he organized and directed the Arrhythmia Unit of the Cardiology Service of the University Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pino in Las Palmas until 2000. He later became Deputy Director of the Arrhythmia Department and Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at the Jimenez Diaz Foundation in Madrid. Professor of Cardiology at the Autonomous University and Director of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (Heart Rhythm Society) Fellowship Program, positions he held for 6 years before moving to the Quironsalud University Hospital of Madrid in 2006. Dr. Cabrera has been head of the cardiology department at the Quironsalud University Hospital of Madrid since its opening in 2006. Since January 2013, he has also been Head of the Cardiology Department at the Ruber Juan Bravo Hospital Complex and, in 2022, Head of Service at the new Olimpia Center. He is a professor at the European University of Madrid, where he heads the Department of Clinical and Fundamental Translational Cardiology. Qualification Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada. From 1994 to 1996 he completed postgraduate training as an interventional cardiologist in the Arrhythmia Unit (Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory) of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation in Madrid. Senior Research Fellow. National Heart and Lung Institute. Royal Brompton. Paediatric Heart Morphology under the direction of Prof. Robert H. Anderson in London (UK) in 1997. Research and Teaching Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, SEC Arrhythmia Section, European Society of Cardiology, Arrhythmia Working Group, European Heart Rhythm Association, North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. He serves on numerous committees for the selection and monitoring of fellowships and research projects of various national and international cardiology and cardiac arrhythmia societies. Reviewer of articles for publication in the most relevant journals in the specialty. Journal of the Spanish Society of Cardiology, Heart Rhythm, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, PACE, Europace, Heart Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Electrophysiology of Circulation, Journal of Interventional Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. Member of the European Society of Cardiology Member of the Arrhythmia Working Group European Society of Cardiology Member of the Arrhythmia Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Member of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association. Member of the Selection and Control Committee of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Post-Residency Research Training Fellowships 2001-2002/2002-2003. Evaluator and member of the selection committee for research, technological development and innovation projects of the Government of Extremadura. Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2001-2004). Member of the Spanish research group. Integrated Action Programme between Spain and the United Kingdom. Directorate General of Higher Education and Research (reference HB 1998-0030). Project title: Anatomical study of the cavities of the human heart and its application to clinical electrophysiology. Member of the Spanish research group. Integrated Action Programme between Spain and Austria. Directorate General for Higher Education and Research (reference HU 1999-0002). Project title: Electromorphological analysis of the terminal crest and posterior pectineus muscle. Its importance as a morphological substrate in different types of supraventricular tachycardias. Participation in the clinical commission and protocol of the study AZIMILIDE versus SOTALOL on programmed cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation. 2001-2003.