Treatment in Barcelona (Spain)

Academic Education:

• Urology Specialist MIR 1982-87.
• European Board of Urology UAE 1992.

Professional Experience:

• Resident Urology HU Bellvitge 1982-87.
• Head of Urology Service H. Gral Vic 1988.
• Staff S. Urology HU Bellvitge since 1988.
• HU Bellvitge Renal Transplant Team Staff.
• Coord. Unit Litiasi i Endourology HUB.
• Private activity at HM Delfos since 1988.
• President of the Delphi Renal Lithiasis Unit (Lithotripsy).
• Head of Urology Service HM Delfos.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• National Coordinator of the Lithiasis and Endourology Group of the Spanish Association of Urology.
• Teaching Tutor Urology HU Bellvitge since 1998.
• Coord. Endourology Courses (4 per year) HUB since 2005.
• Director of scientific programs of different companies. 
• Scientific Advisor to Biomaterials Companies.
• Organizer of several National Congresses of the Lithiasis, Endourology, Laparoscopy and Robotics Group of the Spanish Association of Urology.
• Multiple scientific communications to medical congresses, publication of articles in journals, chapters of medical and popular books, and scientific films.
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Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1999-2005).
• Subspecialist Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Joan de Déu Hospital (2010-2012).
• Medical specialist in Pediatrics and its specific areas at the Albacete University Hospital Complex (2006-2010).
• Studying the PhD of Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona Autonomous (2019-present).

Professional Experience:

• Pediatric Cardiologist at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2012-2018).
• Head of Service of the Cardiology Department at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2018-present).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Member of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), the Spanish Society of Pediatrics (SEP) and the Catalan Society of Pediatrics (SCP).
• Award for the best communication of the XIII National Congress of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiopathies (2020).
• Juan V Comas 2019 scholarship for the research project Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Area of excellence: Preventive Cardiology in cardiovascular diseases.
• Research lines: Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with pathology or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Role of the microbiota as a regulatory factor in obesity and metabolic disease.
• Doctoral Thesis: Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.
• Kawasaki Disease: Member of the Asenkawa Medical Advisory Team (Association of Parents of Kawasaki Disease).

Academic Training:

Graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid and specialist in Cardiology at the University Hospital October 12 in Madrid. During her residency, she completed an external rotation in cardiac MRI and CT at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, under the supervision of Dr. Weinsaft.

After the residence, she completed two years of subspecialization focused on Cardiac Imaging, at the October 12 Hopital and at HM Hospitals, under the supervision of Dr. Fernández Friera and Dr. Solís.

Professional Experience:

As a cardiologist, Dr. Belen Diaz Anton has developed her activity in prestigious public and private centers, her area of ​​specialization being cardiac imaging. In this field, she is accredited in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography by the European Society of Cardiology (EACVI) since 2015.

Dr. Belen Diaz Anton is currently part of the Comprehensive Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CIEC) and the Cardiac Imaging Unit of HM Hospitals. Her activity is focused on performing three-dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, offering special support to cardiac interventionism and surgery. In addition, she holds specific valve disease consultations. Within the cardiac imaging unit, she performs cardiac resonance and coronary AngioCT.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

Dr. Belen Diaz Anton collaborates as a teacher at the San Pablo CEU University through specialized courses in cardiac CT.

Outstanding research career with more than 10 articles published in prestigious national and international journals in recent years and multiple communications to congresses.

Since 2016, she has been developing a line of research in Cardio-Oncology in patients with breast cancer (Winning project of the first intramural R+D+i call for emerging groups awarded by the HM Hospitals foundation).

Children's Hematologist, Head of the Center of Bone Marrow Transplantation

Dr. Antonio Alcaraz is a Spanish uro-oncologist and transplantologist with over 30 years of experience and 500 successful operations, specializing in the treatment of prostate cancer, kidney, bladder, and other urogenital system pathologies using minimally invasive and robotic systems, as well as congenital pathologies in children. He is a member of several prestigious urological societies.

This doctor has experience in endocrine treatment, collaborating on studies aimed at overcoming resistance to hormone therapy. They have also been involved in numerous phase 1, 2 and 3 studies in breast and melanoma, which have led to the approval of new drugs in new indications. Their main area of interest lies in immunotherapy for melanoma treatment and patient care. They have participated in trials that have led to the approval of cdk4/6 palbociclib and ribociclib inhibitors in the first line of metastatic breast cancer, and Pembrolizumab in the first line of metastatic melanoma, as well as the combination of Nivolumab and Ipilimumab. They are a member of the Breast Cancer Unit and Melanoma Unit at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology. This doctor is an experienced oncologist with expertise in breast cancer and melanoma treatments, including endocrine therapy, immunotherapy, and patient care. They have been involved in numerous clinical trials leading to the approval of new drugs in new indications.

Professor Felip is a medical doctor from the UAB who specializes in thoracic malignancy management and is responsible for thoracic cancer trials. She is a current member of various societies related to oncology and has authored many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in the field. She is also an associate professor at the UAB and professor of medicine at the Universitat de Vic, and is involved in the training of medical students and residents.

Children's Hematologist. Specialist in transplantation

Jose Hinojosa Mena-Bernal is a highly skilled pediatric neurosurgeon from Spain who specializes in neuro-oncology, neuroendoscopy, maxillofacial surgery, and minimally invasive surgery. He has completed training courses both in Spain and abroad, and is the head of the Neurosurgery Department at Sant Joan De Deu Children’s Hospital. He has authored 93 scientific publications and is a member of several professional organizations.

Dr. Marta Morales Ballús is a pediatric ophthalmologist with over 20 years of experience in treating patients with congenital cataracts and performing pediatric anterior segment surgery. She holds a degree in general medicine and surgery from Barcelona University and is a member of the Catalan Society of Ophthalmology, the Spanish Strabology Society, and the European Paediatric Ophthalmological Society. She is also a teaching specialist at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona.

Pediatric orthopedist-traumatologist, specializes in surgical oncology

15 years of experience

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• He passed specialization in orthopedic surgery and traumatology at the Children's Research Hospital of St. Jude in Memphis, USA (2007-2008).
• Dr. Thorner Rubins currently teaches at the University of Barcelona.
• Нe is the head of the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu in Barcelona.

Neurosurgeon

Professor Bosch is a highly reputed leader in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and conducts clinical and basic research on CLL and other lymphoproliferative disorders, focusing on the molecular pathogenesis of CLL and new therapeutic approaches. He has published over 100 articles in prestigious journals and is a professor of haematology at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital of Barcelona.