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Dr. Gregorio Rábago Juan-Aracil
Deputy Director of the Department of Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Specialist in Cardiac Surgery.
Professional career
Medical and Surgical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He completed specialty training in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, France (1988-1993).
Between 1993 and 1996, he completed a fellowship in the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA), where he served as chief resident during the 1994-1995 academic year. At that institution, in addition to his work as a cardiovascular surgeon, he further developed his expertise in heart transplantation and circulatory support.
He joined the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in 1996. Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons (FEBTS) since 2000.
Director of the Department of Cardiac Surgery and of the heart transplantation program at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery using various techniques (HeartPort, off-pump coronary surgery).
In the field of heart transplantation, he has participated in multiple international studies and is actively involved in mechanical circulatory support programs as temporary cardiac replacement therapy (recovery or bridge to transplant) or as definitive therapy.
Activity
In research
He has published more than 170 articles in national and international journals.
He has contributed to 21 book chapters.
He has presented more than 200 papers at specialty conferences.
Awards
- Award to the best communication of the XV congress of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery.
- Echebano Scholarship
- Scholarship from the Government of Navarra. (1999-2001)
- Scholarship from the Government of Navarra (2001)
- Scholarship from the Government of Navarra (1999-2000)
- Roche Fellowship for Basic and Clinical Research in Cardiology
- Novartis Award from the Spanish Society of Cardiology to the best communication on Transplantation 2002.
- FEGAS Award 2008 from the Galician School of Health Administration.
- Prize from the Spanish Foundation of Radiology, to the best article or scientific work published in national and foreign journals during 2007 and 2008.
- Second Prize to the best work published in Spanish Urological Records, in its section A, Originals of the year 2008.
Scientific organizations
- Numerary Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular Surgery.
- Full member of the Mediterranea Association of Cardiology and Cardiac surgery.
- Full member of the College Francais de Chirurgie Thoracique et Cardio-vasculaire
- Lifetime member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundación Conchita Rábago de Jiménez-Díaz
- Active member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
- Full member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
- Fellow of European Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons (FETCS)
- Member of the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2005)
- Full member of the Society of Cardiovascular Surgeons (2005)