Numerary Member
Health Sciences: Doctor in Medicine and Surgery
Date of admission: September 14, 2023
Admission speech: “Land and Sea against Gynecological and Breast Cancer”
Reply speech: H.E. Dr. Camil Andreu Castelo-Branco i Flores, Doctor in Medicine and Surgery
Outstanding career: Extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose and throat disorders. He has developed a distinguished clinical and teaching career, promoting advances in otologic microsurgery and functional endoscopic nasal surgery.
Dr. JOSÉ ANTONIO LEJÁRCEGUI FORT
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (1965).
- Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology (1970) and Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, with a thesis graded Excellent cum laude (1975).
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Career in teaching positions: Assistant Professor (1970-1974), Course Lecturer (1974-1975), Associate Professor (1975-1985) and Full Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (1985-2011).
- Teaching Coordinator at the Clinical Institute of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Perinatology.
- Resident Medical Tutor (1990-1996).
- Board Member of the SEGO and of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia.
- President of the Gynecologic Oncology Section of the ACM, Numerary Member of the Club Carcinologie of Marseille, and member of the World Association for Gynecological Cancer.
- Spanish representative at the European Organization for Treatment of Trophoblastic Diseases (EOTTD Group).
- Guest Professor at the Ibero-American Course of Gynecology (Montevideo), the Master in Senology (2000-2007) and the Master in Sexual Health (2019-2022).
- Training in gynecologic oncology at the University of Santo Tomás of Manila, Philippines (1967-1976), and at the Texas Cancer Institute M.D. Anderson Hospital of Houston, Texas (1979-1989, annual one-month stays).
- Consultant at the Gynecologic Oncology Unit of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and at the Institut Mèdic d’Oncologia i Radioteràpia (IMOR), Barcelona.
- Participation in 349 national and international congresses and symposia.
- Research and development lines: Cervical pathophysiology, endometrial pathophysiology, vulvar pathology, trophoblastic disease, intra-arterial chemotherapy infusion, tumor markers, conservative surgery and irradiation in breast cancer.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of 114 publications in international and national journals, as well as book chapters, related to his research lines.
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Professional Excellence Award from the College of Physicians of Catalonia (2008).
- Honorary Member of the Spanish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SEGO) (2016).
- Honorary Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands.
- Mediterranean Excellence Award (2018).
