Dr. Santiago Isorna Martínez de la Riva

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• It has its own private consultation of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (news)
• Head of the Urology Service at the General Hospital of Gran Canaria Dr. Negrín, former Nuestra Sra. Del Pino Hospital, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (June 1987 - February 2004)
• Specialist in the Hospital Perpetuo Socorro of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Head of Urology Section at CS Ntra. Ms. Covadonga in Oviedo (1979 - 1987)
• Adjunct physician at Virgen del Camino Hospital (Pamplona)

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 Teaching posts

• Associate Professor at the University of Las Palmas in Urology (1991)
• Professor of Surgery (Urology) at the ULPGC (1995 - present)
• Professor of Surgery in Urology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (2004 - present)
• Professor of Surgery in Urology at the University of Las Palmas (July 2012 - present)

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in the first class of the Autonomous University of Madrid
• Resident doctor and specialty of Urology at the CS La Paz in Madrid.
• Fellow of the European Board of Urology (FEBU) in its first call in Genoa (1992)
• Active member in several Urooncological Research groups, such as CUETO and EORTC.
• Research on the initial application of Bacilo Calmette Guèrin (BCG) in superficial bladder tumors.
• Research on the application of new minimally invasive methods such as prostatodivulsion in Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH).
• Research on minimally invasive surgery in female urinary incontinence
• Investigation of the initiation and development in Spain of the perineal pathway in localized prostate cancer after starting laparoscopic staging lymphadenectomy
• Investigation of reconstructive surgery including the creation and development of own surgical techniques such as urethroplasty with pedicled flaps in the pendulous urethra and distal sigmoidoplasty as an orthotopic bladder replacement

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 Publications and conferences

• Co author of "radical prostatectomy as monotherapy in locally advanced prostate cancer T3a: 12 years of follow up" published in Spanish Archives of Urology (2004)
• Co author of "radical perineal prostatectomy as monotherapy: 10 years of experience," published in Spanish Archives of Urology (2004)
• Co author of "renal vascular trauma" published in Urologic Clinics of Complutense (1992)
• Co author of "radical retropubic or perineal prostatectomy as monotherapy in clinically localized prostate carcinoma locally advanced" published by the University of Las Palmas (2004)
• He has made more than 40 national and 160 foreign communications
• Author of 30 publications at international and national level 60

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 Prizes and awards

• His work has been awarded six times, three of which abroad.

 Professional membership

• founding member of the International Society of Surgery of the pelvic floor.
• Member of multiple international urological societies.