Dr. Javier Sánchez de la Vega

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Head of the Urology Service at the HLA Santa Isabel Hospital (2018 - present).
• Head of the Urology Service at the Fátima Hospital (2014 - present).
• Urologist at the Andalusian Health Service (1999 - present).
• Urologist at the Hospital de Valme, Seville (today).
• Urologist at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Aljarafe (2010).
• Urologist at the Santa María Clinic, in Santiago de Chile, together with Dr Octavio Castillo.

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 Sub-specialties

• Urological laparoscopy.

 Positions in public associations

• Head of the uro-oncology unit Hospital de Valme.

 Teaching posts

• NOTES professor, at the Center of Minimum Invasion of Cáceres (present)
• Trainer in laparoscopic surgery techniques.

 Publications and conferences

• Author of numerous publications in national and international magazines.
• Author of several book chapters.
• Researcher in various studies and clinical trials.

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 Prizes and awards

• National training scholarship with Dr. Marc Soloway, at the Ceadars Hospital of the University of Miami.
• Performing the first laparoscopic cystectomy in Seville, together with Dr. García Escuder (2013).
• Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, awarded as Best Oral Communication of the XXI Congress of the Andalusian Association of Urology. Córdoba, October 2008.
• During his period in the Urology Service of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Aljarafe, he participated in the development of the first radical prostatectomy for a single port in Spain, being pioneers in this technique worldwide (2010).

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Spanish Association of Urology.
• Member of the Andalusian Association of Urology.