Dr. Javier Naval Álvaro

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Head of the General and Digestive Surgery service at the Sanitas Cima Hospital (2011 - 2019)
• Surgeon responsible for surgical emergencies of the CIMA Clinic (2006 - 2019)
• General and digestive surgeon at the Corachán Clinic (2019)
• General and digestive surgeon at the Diagonal Clinic (2019)
• Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery at the University Hospital of the Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona (1983 - Present)
• Consultant Surgeon at the Sagrada Familia Clinic (Current)

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the Central University of Barcelona (1982)
• Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery at the University Hospital of the Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona (1983 - 1987)
• Stay as Postgraduate visitor at Sant Mark's Hospital for diseases of the Rectum and Colom, London, United Kingdom (1987)
• Stay as a Research Fellow at the Department of Colorrectal Surgery The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom (1996)
• Obtaining the Board in Coloproctology by the European Association of Coloproctology at the Scientific and Four Annual General Meeting, Barcelona (2003)

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 Publications and conferences

• 28 publications in national and international journals
• 49 communications in national and international conferences
• Increased mucosal tumor necrosis factor alpha production in Crohn's disease can be donwregulated ex vivo by probiotic bacteria. N. Borruel, Carol M., F. Casellas, M. Antolin, F. de Lara, E. Espin, J. Naval, F. Guarner, J. R Malegelada. GUT, November 2002, Vol 51, No. 5, p 659-664
• Prospective, Randomized Study About Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Colorectal Surgery. Are All Those Pills Really Necessary ?. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. May 2003. Volume 46 Issue 5
• Study peeling colonic mucosa as a predictive marker of the population in risk of colorectal cancer. Director: Prof. Dr. Armengol, Dr Vilaseca, Dr. Guarner. Doctoral thesis

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 Professional membership

• Full Member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia and the Balears, belonging to the Catalan Society of Surgery and Digestología since 1984
• Member of the Spanish Association since 1995 Colo-Proctology
• Senior Member of the Spanish Association of Surgeons since 1995
• Full Member of the Spanish Society of Digestive Pathology since 1995

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