Xavier Sanz Latiesas

Honorary Academician

Health Sciences: Doctor of Medicine and Surgery

Date of admission: March 6, 2025

Admission speech: «Fundamental and Unpublished Aspects of Abdominal Organ Transplantation. Personal Experience at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital»

Reply: Hon. Dr. Francisco González de Posada, Doctor of Civil Engineering (Roads, Canals and Ports)

Outstanding career: Surgeon and pioneer in liver transplantation and complex digestive surgery in Spain, former Head of the Department of General Surgery and Transplantation at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid.

Dr. ENRIQUE MORENO GONZÁLEZ

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Professor of Surgical Pathology, “Doce de Octubre” University Hospital, Madrid (1992).
  • Director of the Institute of Oncologic Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery and Abdominal Organ Transplantation, “Doce de Octubre” University Hospital, Madrid (2009).
  • President of the Superior Health Council of the Community of Madrid.
  • Numerary Member of the Royal National Academy of Medicine.
  • Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences and Engineering of Lanzarote.
  • Active Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Murcia.
  • Honorary Academician of the Royal Academies of Medicine of Zaragoza and Cantabria.
  • Elected Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
  • Honorary Academician of the National Academies of Medicine of Colombia and Argentina.
  • Honorary Member of the Argentine Society of Surgery, the Costa Rican Society of Surgery, the College of Surgeons of Costa Rica, the Venezuelan Society of Surgery, and the Lyon Society of Surgery.
  • Honorary Member of the European Society of Organ Transplantation, the Venezuelan Association of Coloproctology, the Dominican Society of Surgery, and the Brazilian Society of Oncologic Surgery.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

  • Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research (1999).
  • National Surgery Award “Pedro Virgili”, Cortes of Cádiz (2011).