Best Distal Pancreatectomy Doctors in Spain

Educational Experience:

• 1980- 1986: Dr. Antonio Maria De Lacy completed his graduation from the University of Barcelona.
• 1987: He did Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona and completed a specialization in gastric and abdominal surgery from the same university.
• 1991: He got training at EMORY University in Atlanta.
• Dr. Antonio María also trained at Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital, Cornell University.

Professional Career:

• 1988: Worked as a Surgery Associate at the Hospital Clinic Provincial de Barcelona.
• 1996-2001: Dr. Antonio Maria De Lacy got promoted as a Specialist in the same clinic.
• 1998-2003: He offered his services as an Associate Professor of Digestive and General Surgery at the University of Barcelona.
• 2001-2003: He served as a Professor, Surgery consultant, and Advisory Board member at the Hospital Clinic Provincial de Barcelona.
• 2007-2009: He became the President of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgery.
• Dr. Antonio Maria founded the General and Digestive Surgery Department in Quironsalud Barcelona and serves as the Head of the respective department there.

Achievements:

• Dr. Antonio Maria De Lacy is the first Spanish Surgeon who did Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) in which he removed the gall bladder of a patient through his mouth.
• He was also the first surgeon in his country who did Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) in Obesity Surgery (2009).
• He also has the honor of being the first Spanish surgeon who resected rectal tumors through the anus (2010).
• He received the SAGES International Ambassador Award in 2017.
• Dr. Antonio Maria De Lacy is the first surgeon to treat esophageal cancer through laparoscopy and thoracoscopy.

Memberships:

Dr. Antonio Maria de Lacy is the part of following scientific societies:

• European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques (EAES).
• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS).
• Active Member of SAGES (Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons).
• Member of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC) since 1997
• International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition (IASMEN).
• IFSES
• Rectal Cancer Society

Interesting Facts:

• Dr. Antonio Maria has performed 95% of his surgeries through natural body openings.
• He did more than 17,000 surgeries in his career.
• He has participated in more than 320 national and international meetings.
• He did more than 400 colorectal surgeries through the TaTME technique.

Publications:

• Dr. Antonio Maria De Lacy has 175 publications in national and international scientific journals.
• He also wrote 19 chapters in different textbooks.

Educational Background

• Dr. Antonio Cubillo earned his medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain in 1994.
• He also has a master's degree in Palliative and Supportive Care.
• He has done his postgraduate training in Medical Oncology and has got certification in this field.

Professional career

• Dr. Antonio Cubillo works as a specialist in sarcoma, gastrointestinal and genitourinary tumors at the MD Anderson International Hospital in Madrid.
• He has also served as an oncology emergency service coordinator at the same hospital.
• Dr. Antonio also takes care of patients with solid tumors. He is associated with clinical trials at Clinica CONIM located in Madrid, Spain.

Memberships

• Dr. Antonio Cubillo has the membership of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.
• He is also a part of the Treatment Group of GI Tumors and the Spanish group of Sarcoma research.
• He is an active member of the medical oncologist's network from the University of Texas.
• He has been involved as an investigator in 100 clinical trials or more.

Publications

• He has published several scientific articles, oncology book chapters, and abstracts.
• He has reviewed several oncology journals in his career.
• Dr. Antonio Cubillo is the author of several writings, articles, and books regarding Oncology.
• He has also attended various international meetings and oral communications.

Educational background:

Prof. Dr. Pedro Betcha Boix has been to some respected academies for his schooling, his educational background includes:

• 1986-1993: He began with his basic medical and surgical education and received his MD degree from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona.
• 1995-1999: He did a specialization course in general surgery and digestive system from Mutual University Hospital of Terrassa.
• 2017: Prof. Dr. Pedro Betcha Boix completed his doctorate from the University of Miguel Hernandez.

Professional experience:

Prof. Dr. Pedro Betcha Boix has been out in the field for many years now, he has been serving unconditionally since the beginning. His professional experiences include:

• 2001-2002: He started as an assistant surgeon at the department of pancreatic and hepatobiliary surgery of Mutual University Hospital of Terrassa.
• 2001: He then became a founding member of an Oncology Committee at San Jaime Torrevieja Hospital.
• 2009: He began working as an associate surgeon and did off-site training in Da Vinci Surgical System.
• 2019 onwards: Prof. Dr. Pedro Betcha Boix was then appointed as the director of the department of digestive and general surgery at Quironsalud Torrevieja Hospital and has been serving there since then.

Memberships:

Prof. Dr. Pedro Bretch Boix is also affiliated with:

• European Surgical Oncology Association.
• American Surgical Oncology Association.
• Surgeon's Committee of Spain.
• Spanish Surgical Oncology Association.
• Peritoneal Oncological Surgery Community of Spain.
• Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery Community of Spain.
• International Union of Peritoneal Malignancy.

Publications:

Dr. Pedro Bretch Boix is also an active member of several research centers and has taken part in different clinical trials as well. He has penned down multiple scientific articles for medical journals.

Interesting Facts

Prof. Dr. Pedro Bretch Boix performed the first isolated Perfusion of Liver with Melphalan and Hyperthermia in Spain.