Dr. Laureano Molins López-Rodó

Dr. LAUREANO MOLINS LÓPEZ-RODÓ

• Born in Barcelona, October 13, 1957.

Academic Degrees

• MD in Medicine and Surgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona (1981).
• Specialist in General Surgery (1987) and Thoracic Surgery (2001).
• PhD in Medicine and Surgery (Cum Laude), Autonomous University of Barcelona (1995).
• Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Barcelona (since 1995).
• Accredited by ANECA (2015) as University Associate Professor.
• Research Accreditation by AQU Catalunya (2016).
• European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery – FETCS (2001).
• Professor at the European School of Thoracic Surgery (ESTS–EACTS).

Specialist Training

• General Surgery, Red Cross Hospital, Barcelona (1982–1986).
• Thoracic Surgery training at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester (1986–1987), and at Massachusetts General Hospital and New England Deaconess Hospital (Harvard Medical School), Boston, USA (1986–1987).
  Also at the Red Cross and Sagrat Cor Hospitals, Barcelona (1988–1989).

Hospital Appointments

• Assistant Physician (1990–1993); Clinical Chief (1994–1999); Head of the Thoracic Surgery Department, Sagrat Cor University Hospital, Barcelona (2000–present).
• Consultant and Head of Thoracic Surgery Department, Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (2010–present).

Scientific Societies

• Founder (1993) and President (2008–2009) of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS).
• Member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), USA, and member of the Workforce on International Relationships (2010–2016).
• Member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS).
• Member of the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).
• Member of the European Respiratory Society (ERS), Chair of Group 8.1 Thoracic Surgery (2013–2016).
• Member of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC).
• Member of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), Keynote Lecture (2015).
• Member of the Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery (SECT) and nine other national and international societies.

Communications and Publications

• 495 communications at national and international congresses.
• Visiting Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA (2009), and at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA (2016).
• 105 papers in national and international journals and book chapters.
• Editorial board member of Lung Cancer and Archivos de Bronconeumología.
• Reviewer for European Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Annals of Oncology, Journal of Surgical Oncology, and Archivos de Bronconeumología.

Other Achievements

• Director of the Barcelona International Meeting on Thoracic Surgery, eight editions (1992–2015).
• Co-President of the 11th World Conference on Lung Cancer, Barcelona (2005).
• ESTS Quality Certification for the Thoracic Surgery Departments at Hospital Clínic and Sagrat Cor (2010).