Dr. Jose Antonio Ramírez Felipe

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• Head of the Surgery Department of the San Roque Maspalomas Hospital (July 2013 - present)
• Head of Service of the Canary Islands Health Service (October 2009 - July 2013)
• Head of the General and Digestive Surgery Service of the Dr. Negrín University Hospital in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Medical Director of the Dr. Negrín University Hospital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Professional of the medical staff of the Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pino in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Specialist via MIR at the Santa Creu and Santa Pau Hospital in Barcelona (1976 - 1982)

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 Sub-specialties

• Endoscopy surgery
• Bariatric surgery

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of La Laguna, Tenerife (1974)
• Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1980)
• Specialist in Digestive System Surgery and Bariatric Surgery by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (1982)

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 Publications and conferences

• President of the Organizing Committee of the X National Symposium of the Spanish Association of Major Ambulatory Surgery (ASECMA) (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, October 2014)
• Vice President and President-Elect of the Spanish Society of Surgery of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (SECO) (now, 2017 - 2019)