Cosme Gay Escoda

Experience

Faculty member of the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona. Oral surgery, buccal implantology and maxillofacial surgery. Director of the TMJ and Orofacial Pain Unit

Maxillofacial surgeon at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona.

Director of the Maxillofacial Surgery, Buccal Implantology and Maxillofacial Surgery Service. Dental Clinic of the University of Barcelona. Bellvitge Campus (1988–2012)

Qualification

Graduate of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona (1974).

Graduate of the Faculty of Dentistry of the University of Barcelona (1976).

Specialist in Maxillofacial Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (MIR sy) (1979).

Diploma from the University of Paris XI in oncological surgery of the head and neck (1981).

Master of Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery, University of Paris VI (1984).

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1986).

Diploma of the European Board of Oral Surgery (2001).

Postgraduate training in various foreign clinics (France, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, etc.)

Education

Associate Professor and Fellow, Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1978–1988)

First Dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Barcelona

Lecturer in 240 postgraduate courses in maxillofacial surgery and head and neck surgery in Spain and abroad.

Professor of Dental and Maxillofacial Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Barcelona

Director of the Master's program in Maxillofacial Surgery and Buccal Implantology at the International University EFHRE/UCAM/FUCSO

Author of 15 books on the specialty and 74 chapters in other books on maxillofacial surgery.

Author of 465 scientific articles published in indexed journals with impact factor.

Scientific Director of the Video Library on Dentistry and Orthopedics and the Video Library on Head and Neck Surgery

Recognitions and certificates

Member of Spanish and foreign scientific societies.

Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia

Corresponding Academician of the Academy of Dentistry of the Argentine Republic

President of the Catalan Society of Maxillofacial Surgery and Implantology

Full member of the Pierre Fauchard Academy.

Former President of the Spanish Society of Oral Surgery (SECIB)

Former President of the European Federation of Societies of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (EFOSS)

Former Vice President of the Spanish Society of Dentistry and Oral Health

Former Vice President of the Spanish Society of Craniomandibular Dysfunction and Orofacial Pain.