Dr. Luis Álvarez Castelo

 Professional experience

• More than 25 years of experience
• At present, and since 1998, I have been a Specialist Area Specialist in Urology at the A Coruña University Hospital, of the Galego de Saude Service
• Coordinator of the Service Laparoscopy Unit and Urodynamist in the Functional and Urodynamic Urology Unit of CHUAC
• Urologist consultant in Prostate Brachytherapy of the Oncology Center of Galicia
• Urology consultation at the Abaton Medical Center
• Urological surgery and consultation at the Model Hospital
• Urological Laparoscopic Surgery at the San Rafael hospital

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 Teaching posts

• Professor in the Course on Ostomy Care of the University of Alicante - Procavida Foundation. November 1993
• Professor in Postgraduate Training Courses in Laparoscopy of the CHUAC and University of A Coruña
• Professor of the Advanced Courses of Perineal Physiotherapy at the University School of Physiotherapy of A Coruña in 1999, 2011 and 2013

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Santiago, 1990
• PhD courses at the University of A Coruña (1999) in the program of Basic and Clinical Aspects of Transplantation
• Specialist in Urology 1997 via MIR, with Residency in Urology at the Juan Canalejo University Hospital in A Coruña from 1993 to 1997
• European Degree in Urology: Obtaining the Fellowship of the European Board of Urology in Vienna in 2000.
• Schollarship in Renal and Pancreatic Transplantation and Functional and Urodynamic Urology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, & TE Starzl Transplantation Institute, in 1997 in Pittsburgh (USA).
• Training in treatment with Brachytherapy of prostate cancer at the Seattle Prostate Institute and Swedish Medical Center. Seattle (USA) in 2000
• Training in Minimally Invasive Therapy and Brachytherapy at the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit at the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Guilford (UK). 2001
• Training in Laparoscopic Nephrectomy Techniques at the Aesculap Akademie in Tuttlingen (Germany) in 2003
• Advanced Workshop on New Treatments for Prostate Cancer at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York (USA) in 2005
• State of the Art in Laparoscopic Surgery in Bordeaux (France) in 2011

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 Publications and conferences

• More than 300 communications to national and international conferences, oral, poster and video
• Speaker of the European Society of Transplantation Urology (ESTU). Birmingham February 2002: Lecture on ENDOUROLOGICAL TREATMENT OF URETERAL FÍSTULA AND STENOSIS AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANT. Alvarez Castelo L
• Numerous publications in international and national magazines
• Author of national book chapters: Renal transplantation, Kidney cancer with thrombus in cava and Vascular complications in renal transplantation
• Co-investigator in more than 17 clinical trials

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 Prizes and awards

• LASA UROLOGY Award for the article “EFFECT OF COMPLETE HORMONAL BLOCK PRIOR TO RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY FOR PROSTATE CANCER” .1996
• HOECHST-ROUSSEL Award for the best urological video of the LXI National Congress of Urology. Santander in 1996 by: VASCULAR COMPLICATIONS SURGERY OF RENAL TRANSPLANTATION
• Prize of the FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN UROLOGY for the best poster for “PRESERVATION OF URINARY CONTINENCE IN RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY. VESICAL NECK CONSERVATION TECHNIQUE “. 1997
• Prize for the best poster communication for “ARTERIAL WALL INFECTION ON KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION” at the III Annual Meeting Advances in Medicine. Juan Canalejo Hospital Complex. La Coruña December 19, 1997
• RAFAEL HERVADA AWARD FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, IX EDITION (2001/2002) for: “THERAPEUTIC INNOVATIONS IN LOCALIZED PROSTATE CARCINOMA. CLINICAL ROUTE FOR THE POSTOPERATIVE PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY BY PROSTATE CANCER ".
• Prize for the best presentation at the XII Congress of the Galician Society of Urology. Vigo, May 24-25, 2002 by: RENAL CARCINOMA WITH SYNCHRONIC BILATERAL SUPRARRENAL AFFECTION. ANALYSIS OF OUR SERIES

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 Professional membership

• Fellow of the European Board of Urology
• Member of the International Continence Society
• Member of the European Association of Urology
• Member of the Spanish Association of Urology
• Member of the Galician Society of Urology

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