a leading-edge training in the field of surgery and liver transplantation in Spain, essential to maintain its excellence and global projection
Astellas Fellow scholarship encourages the professional development of elite surgeons without leaving out the country
-the heads of surgery of the ClÃnic University Hospital, Hospital Universitario Vall d ’ Hebron and the Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, along with Astellas Pharma, been awarded the second a scholarship Fellow in liver surgery and transplantation of liver ”.
– following the success of the first call, with a scholarship to play already an Office of professional responsibility, becomes to offer an integral formation and exclusive to a surgeon for two years, rotating by three hospitals reputation recognized both national as international
-this pioneering initiative and only in Spain allow to know the technical leading edge in liver full, partial, live donor and transplant donor heart stopped, among others, in addition to the scholarship the opportunity of developing its own line of research.
Madrid, April 2012.- Spain is recognized for excellence in the area of transplantation of liver and hepatic surgery, thanks to the results achieved in recent decades. To maintain this excellence as well as its global projection, it is necessary to guarantee the generational change of the specialists in this field, which happens to equip the new professionals of a highly specialized training. Aware of this reality and committed to the future of the liver surgery and transplantation of liver, the Hospital ClÃnic University of Barcelona, Hospital Universitario Vall d ’ Hebron and the Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, in collaboration with Astellas Pharma, just grant for the second year the Fellow in liver surgery and transplantation of liver ”.
Dr. GarcÃa-Valdecasas, Chief of the service of General Surgery and digestive system of the Hospital ClÃnic of Barcelona ensures that is encouraging those who have a positive attitude and provide the path to the development of a leadership needed, without having to exit out of Spain ”.
Astellas Fellow opportunity scholarship incorporate professionally not only one, but three hospitals of recognized prestige at national and international levels and which are those who have more activity in the country, not only in quantity, but in quality of transplant ”, says Dr. Juan Carlos GarcÃa-Valdecasas.
Unique opportunity in Spain
The scholarship Astellas Fellow, which this year has been awarded to the DRA. Sofia de la Serna, represents a unique opportunity and a pioneer in the area of liver transplantation, the person selected for the period of training will rotate for eight months for each of the three hospitals participating, pointers in this area, to complete a two year cycle. In each of the centres, it be incorporated into the daily work as one professional of the group, participating in the usual surgery at the hospital where will act as first Assistant. Will also be responsible for the follow-up of the patients once have been operated or transplanted.
With previous experience and that purchase during the first months of the grant, the beneficiary of the training programme will first extraction of the donor, later the hepatectomy in the receiver during the transplant, and finally the liver graft, always supervised placement.
The winner of the scholarship for Astellas Fellow in liver surgery and transplantation of liver, DRA. Sofia de la Serna, there are different ways to do the surgery, but different surgeons, both about different teams and different forms of work always brings new elements ”. The appeal of the Astellas Fellow scholarship lies, according to the DRA. de la Serna, in can be formed in this area by three main teams in liver surgery and transplantation, troop a surgical volume exceeding 170 annual transplants Spain ”.
Super-Medicine Surgery
According to the DRA. Sofia de la Serna, the concept of subspecialty surgery in Spain is not yet defined, unlike what happens in many countries in the rest of Europe, where it is fully established. Therefore, programmes for the specialized training in certain areas of the surgery they are virtually non-existent in Spain and are however highly developed in other countries. Hence, precisely the attractiveness of this scholarship ”, says the DRA. de la Serna, who emphasizes that also the Astellas Fellow has only formative purposes that does not require ‘ nothing to change ’. This is my training and nothing more than that ”.
After studying medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid, DRA. Sofia de la Serna completed his specialization in digestive surgery in the Hospital Son Dureta in Palma de Mallorca. He subsequently was part of the Hepatobiliare Centre of the Paul Brousse Hospital in Paris, the first trasplantador of France Centre and centre of reference of surgery Hepatobiliary, not only at the national but also European level.
Commitment to the future
The tribunal to assign the Fellow has been formed by the heads of surgery service of the three hospitals that will rotate the surgeon – Dr. Ramón Charco Torra, Hospital Universitario Vall d ’ Hebron; the Dr. Juan Fabregat Prous, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge and the Dr. Juan Carlos GarcÃa-Valdecasas, of the Hospital ClÃnic of Barcelona – and by a member of Astellas Pharma with voice but without vote.
Astellas Pharma sponsors for the second time the scholarship Fellow in liver surgery and transplantation of liver ” as part of its commitment for the future of the societies in which it is established. Training commitment of Astellas Pharma is inherent to our philosophy as a company, whose maximum working to change tomorrow. And I think there is nothing better that reflects this belief as a bet on the formation ”, explains the CEO of Astellas Pharma Spain and Vice President of southern Europe, José MarÃa MartÃn Dueñas.
