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Dr. Christian Villavicencio-Chávez

Dr. Christian Villavicencio-Chávez
Geriatrics
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Professional statement

Dr. Villavicencio-Chavez is a renowned specialist in Geriatrics with extensive training. He is currently the Medical Director of Caredoctors. He holds the title of Doctor of Health Sciences at the International University of Catalonia and Official Master of Palliative Care at the University of Vic and the University of Barcelona. Evaluation of Clinical Competence for palliative care physicians (ACOE) by the Institute of Health Studies and the Catalan-Balearic Society Pal·liatives Cures. Research Sufficiency (DEA) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Since 2013 it is part of a research group care for people at the end of life that is recognized by the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has worked as a specialist in palliative care service of the Catalan Institute of Oncology, for seven years. He is currently the director of the project LagunAdvance Vianorte-Laguna Foundation in Madrid and Barcelona Croupier Project on advance planning decisions. He combines his professional career with teaching as an Associate practicing Bioethics and Palliative Medicine professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the International University of Catalonia. He is the author of numerous publications and regular at national and international conferences.

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 Credentials

GMC: 39824

 Professional experience

• More than 15 years of experience
• Medical Director at Caredoctors (present)
• Medical Consultant of the Sociosanitaria Santa Susanna Foundation (2016-present)
• Director of the project in Laguna Advance Foundation Vianorte-Laguna in the Hospital Center of Care LAGUNA (2016-present)
• Medical Specialist of the Palliative Care Service at the Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) (2009-2016)
• MIR in Geriatrics in the Parc Salut Mar

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 Sub-specialties

• Oncological Pain
• Palliative care and accompaniment at the end of life

 Positions in public associations

• Member of the Mortality Committee of Bellvitge Hospital (2013-2015)
• Member of the Psychosocial Committee of the Institut Català d'Oncología (2012-2015)
• Member of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the International University of Catalonia (November 2017- Present

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 Teaching posts

• Associate Professor of Bioethics and Palliative Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, International University of Catalonia (2011-present)
• Tutor of research work at the end of the Master of palliative care (2015)
• Professor of the Master of Palliative Care at the ICO, the University of Barcelona and the University of Vic
• Professor of Nursing Postgraduate at the University of Barcelona and the Catalan Institute of Oncology

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru (1996-2003)
• Specialist in Geriatrics (2009)
• Doctorate in Health Sciences from the International University of Catalonia (2011-2016)
• Evaluation of the Clinical Competence for Physicians in Palliative Care (ACOE) by the Institute of Health Studies and Catalan-Balearic Society of Cures Pal·liatives

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 Publications and conferences

• Doctoral Thesis: Desire to advance death in patients with advanced cancer
• He has done several training courses throughout his professional career
• Regular assistant to congresses on the specialty
• Speaker in different socio-health centers and residences on issues related to bioethics and at the end of life

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 Prizes and awards

• FIS Scholarship Co-investigator of the scholarship "The desire to advance death: operational definition and clinical assessment in patients in palliative care" by the International University of Catalonia (2014)
• FIS Grant Coninvestigator of the scholarship "The desire to advance death in patients in palliative care: its relationship with the meaning of life, dependence and quality of life" by the International University of Catalonia (2011)
• COIB Scholarship Co-researcher "Relationship between the perception of the meaning of life and the desire to advance death in patients in palliative treatments" (2009)
• Beca Victor i Grifols Foundation to work in Bioethics Research. Exploration of values ​​and wishes of patients with complex chronic disease and advanced chronic disease. October 2017
• Hestia Foundation Scholarship: Research Project. Advance care planning and communication in patients with complex chronic disease and advanced chronic disease. (November 2017)

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SEGG)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Palliative Care (SECPAL)
• Member of the Catalano-Balearic Society of Palliative Care (SCBPAL)
• Member of the European Association for Palliatives Care (EAPC)
• Member of the Psychosocial Committee of the Institut Català d'Oncología (2012-2015)

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Languages spoken

  • Catalan
  • Spanish
  • English

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Diseases, Medical Tests and Treatments

Cancer Pain

Cancer pain can be moderate to severe. It is caused by cancer and its treatments. The intent cancer is treatable. .

Chronic Pain

There are two types of pain:acute and chronic. Acute arises when there is an injury or pathology and usually lasts until the body heals the injury or ...

Counselling or psychological advice

  The counseling is counseling or guidance and help offered through specialist consultation sessions conducted by the patient because of an emotion ...

Oncologic patients

The cancer patient is a person who has had or has cancer. As a result of diagnosis and treatment they may suffer a both physical ailments and psycholo ...

Palliative Care

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Therapeutic follow up

The therapeutic accompaniment is a technical assistance for patients with serious psychic problems and situations of social risk, thus allowing the continuation of treatment outside medical centers such as the supervision of their daily lives. The therapeutic accompanist is part of an interdisciplinary team led by a therapist ( psychologist or psychiatrist ) indicating in each case the specific instructions of assistance. Generally, the specialist accompanies patients through visits to the institution in which the internship, to complement the treatments you receive a personalized and close monitoring. And when the patient leaves the center, followed by accompanying and visiting their homes in order to avoid relapses since it is people with a psychic profiles instability. The functions of the therapist during their visits include the enforcement of decision-relevant medication and monitoring of sound routines to facilitate their integration into society and improving their lifestyle. Among patients who require this type of therapeutic accompaniment, predominantly people with addictions to illegal toxic drugs associated with mental disorders. ...

Cholesterol

Cholesterol is a sterol (lipid or fat) that the human body needs to function properly, but too much cholesterol in the blood is bad because it can cause heart disease and stroke, among other problems. The cholesterol tends to increase with age but usually causes no symptoms, only detected with a blood test. People with family history of overweight or consuming lots of high-fat meal are very likely to have high cholesterol levels. You can lower cholesterol by performing exercise and consumption of fruits and vegetables. ...

Chronic diseases

Chronic diseases are diseases of long duration, all those lasting more than six months. The most common are those related to the heart, cancer, diabetes and respiratory diseases. ...

Cognitive impairment

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), also known as incipient dementia, is a phase of normal aging people in which manifest cognitive decline. It can cause memory problems, abnormal thinking and language, etc. Anyway, this kind of damage does not usually affect the routines or daily activities. The mild cognitive impairment may increase their level of involvement and become a dementia over time, associated with Alzheimer's disease or other neurological diseases. Currently, there is no curative treatment for the mild cognitive impairment but often prescribe some medications used to treat the factors that affect memory. ...

Cognitive stimulation

Cognitive stimulation encompasses all activities to stimulate and improve cognitive functioning:memory, language, attention, concentration, reasoning, abstaccion, arithmetic operations and praxis. The aim is to improve or maintain cognitive functioning and reduce dependence on ill. Capabilities that the patient still retain thus avoiding the frustration of working sick. ...

Comorbidity

The comorbidity or complex chronic diseases is the situation where a patient has multiple diseases usually 3 or more. Simultaneously suffer them all to be chronic and incurable. ...

Dementia

Dementia is the progressive loss of cognitive functions. It is mainly due to brain damage. This disease causes inability to perform activities of daily living. It mainly affects memory, language (aphasia ), attention, visual skills, praxis and executive functions such as problem solving or inhibition of responses. As the disease progresses you can observe the loss of orientation and identity. ...

Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease characterized by a significant increase in blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia ), whose symptoms are usually fatigue, emaciation produced in a short time, excessive thirst and urination extreme ( even at night ). This pathology is caused by an alteration of the action of insulin, either because it does not exist or because the patient's pancreas no longer make it. This last case is what causes diabetes mellitus or insulin-dependent (type I diabetes), which appears in childhood. In the case of people with diabetes type I, substitute this lack of insulin treatment to be followed for life, proper diet that allows greater control of blood glucose levels throughout the day and about good habits of physical exercise. In contrast, type II diabetes is a consequence of hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity, among other causes. Requires more control over diet that is done and sometimes treatment with oral antidiabetic (pills ). Besides, during gestation can also see the unbalanced blood glucose levels, which causes the called gestational diabetes. ...

Heart Failure

Heart failure occurs when the body in a permanent obstacle is located in the blood circulation. This may be located within the heart muscle or outside, which causes an increase in blood pressure. There are two types of heart failure: systolic, when the heart muscle can not pump blood and ridding the heart; and diastolic pressure when the heart muscles are stiff and not fill with blood. Both are treatable. First, avoid any effort that work overload of the heart, and then, deliver drugs that provide vitality to exhausted heart muscle. Additionally, when the obstacle is within the coronary arteries of coronary insufficiency talk. ...

Hypertension

Hypertension is the increase in blood pressure either on a temporary, intermittent or permanent, always above considered a normal values ​​ranging between 160/95mmH, according to the World Health Organization. Clinically, it can not give symptomatology or, conversely, take the form of severe headaches, congestion of the face… Aparate, arterial hypertension (HT ) is associated with significant morbidity and mortality index is one of the most important public health problematic in developed countries. Hypertension is treated with general measures such as a balanced, low-fat diet, and medication treatment. This often avoid complications that can result from poorly controlled hypertension, a heart, eyes and kidneys. ...

Memory disease

Memory loss is a common condition as we age, because it is common to go forgetting certain things over time. Nevertheless, considerable memory deficits may be due to other diseases such as Alzheimer's or senile dementia. Furthermore, it can also be a consequence of other disorders, such as depression or other mental illnesses that cause confusion. Although there is no treatment to recover the lost memory, the help of a speech therapist or speech therapist can be very helpful in providing daily exercises to train the memory. In addition, patients affected by this deficit need much support from their family environment to carry out their daily routines, especially if they take medication or follow a certain type of diet. ...

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disease affecting bones and is caused by decreased tissue that forms both of the proteins that constitute the matrix and the structure of the mineral salts containing calcium. Following a skeletal demineralization that leaves brittle and susceptible to fractures and microfractures bones occurs. This condition occurs mostly in women, amenorrheic or postmenupáusicas due to decreased estrogen production by the ovaries and other hormonal deficiencies. ...

Sarcopenia

The sarcopenia is the loss of muscle mass that usually presents with aging or wear a sedentearia life. The sarcopenia is associated with the decrease of force and a sedentary lifestyle. ...

Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence is the inability to control the bladder, which means that you can not always hold urine. It can affect anyone, but is most common in people over 50 years. Most control problems occur because the muscles that keep the bladder are too weak or too active. If they are weak, small amounts of urine to perform actions such as laughing or coughing are lost, which is known as stress incontinence. On the contrary, if they are too active, you can have an urgent need to go to the bathroom while having little urine in the bladder (urge incontinence or overactive bladder). Other causes include prostate problems and neurological damage. The treatment of urinary incontinence depends on the cause and type, but in general usually includes simple exercises, medicines and special devices. Surgery may be helpful at times. ...

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