Dr. Xavier Cortés Rizo

 Professional experience

• Specialist in the Digestive Service of Hospital de Sagunto, Valencia
• Specialist in the University Hospital of Health House of Valencia, with special dedication as an expert in: inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and Ulcerative Colitis), intestinal microbiota and repercussions in the digestive system and advanced digestive and therapeutic endoscopy
• Clinical chief of the Digestive and Endoscopy Unit of the Private University Hospital Casa de Salud de Valencia (2009)
• Researcher of the team that integrates the Intestinal Inflammatory Disease Unit of the Hospital de Sagunto, focused on the investigation of the compression and management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and especially in two aspects: psychosocial and intestinal microbiota
• Researcher of the development of different collaboration projects with other services of the Sagunto Hospital, other hospitals as well as research institutions and universities

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 Positions in public associations

• He develops his clinical and research activity in the Department of Internal Medicine Section of Digestive Hospital of Sagunto (2009 - present)

 Teaching posts

• Professor in charge of the Subject of Pathology of the Digestive System in the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University of Moncada, Valencia

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche
• Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship at the Faculty of Health Sciences Board of Medical Studies at the University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Master in specialization program in Endoscopic Ultrasonography, by the Open University of Catalonia
• Masterclass "Clinical management focused on the Patient", by Business School Health of the University of Deusto (2015)
• Master "Executive Program of Management and Leadership in Health focused on the Patient" by Business School Health of the University of Deusto (2016)
• Scientific Research and Communication Course, by the Autonomous University of Madrid (2016 - 2017)

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 Publications and conferences

• Publications in national and international journals
• Invited speaker at multiple congresses and scientific seminars of the specialty

 Prizes and awards

• Extraordinary Doctoral Award for Best Doctoral Thesis, in 2016, by the Miguel Hernández University, for the Doctoral Thesis "Safety of ferric carboxymaltose administration immediately after infliximab, in a single session, in patients with inflammatory bowel disease with deficiency of iron: a pilot study "

 Professional membership

• Member of the Four Doctoral Thesis Tribunal at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche and the CEU Cardenal Herrera University of Valencia