Dr. Juan Carlos García-Valdecasas Salgado

Dr. JUAN CARLOS GARCÍA-VALDECASAS

UNIVERSITY DEGREES

• Professor of Surgery and Head of the Department of General and Digestive Surgery.
• He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, earning his degree in 1975 with 28 honours and three distinctions. He obtained the grade of “Honours” and the Extraordinary Degree Award.

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• He is Head of the Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery and Transplant Unit at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona.
• He trained in Surgery at the Hospital Clínic, where he first joined as an intern by competitive examination and continued as a resident. He rose through all levels of responsibility until becoming Head of Department.
• In 1988, he performed the first liver transplant at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona. Since then, this institution has carried out more than 2,000 transplants, making it one of the most active centres in Europe. The unit performs all types of transplants, in addition to the conventional ones.
• He was a pioneer in adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation (2001), as well as in liver transplantation from donors after cardiac arrest. His group is currently a reference centre for organ procurement from this type of donors, using the Normothermic Recirculation technique.
• His work also focuses on complex hepatic surgery, including surgery for primary and metastatic liver tumours, with around 200 hepatectomies performed each year.
• He was a pioneer in incorporating laparoscopic surgery into Hepatic Surgery, making it a standard approach for many patients.
• He has been an invited professor and lecturer both in Spain and abroad.
• He has received numerous research grants, both public (from the Ministries of Education and Health) and private (pharmaceutical industry).
• His main current interest is the recovery of livers for transplantation from donors after cardiac death.
• He has been an invited speaker at various universities nationally and internationally, as well as at national (SET, SETH, AEC, AEHH, etc.) and international congresses (ESOT, ILTS, EASL, AASLD, CAST, Panhellenic, among others).

PUBLICATIONS

• Author of more than 400 articles, mainly in the field of Hepatic Surgery and Transplantation. His cumulative impact factor exceeds 560, and his Hirsch index is currently 44.