Professor Salvador Morales-Conde
Chief, Unit of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery, University Hospital Virgen del Rocío
Speaker's biography
- Chief of the Unit of Innovation in Minimally Invasive Surgery of the University Hospital "Virgen del Rocío"
- Head of the General, Digestive and Laparoscopic Surgery Unit of the Hospital Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón in Sevilla (Spain).
- PhD Degree by the University of Sevilla
- Accreditation for Full Professor of the University by the Ministry of Health (ANECA)
- Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at the University of Sevilla (Spain)
- President of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES)
- President Elect of the European Hernia Society (EHS)
- Past President of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC)
- Past General Secretary of the European Hernia Society (EHS)
- Academic Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Sevilla and Lugo (Spain)
- Vice-Chairman of the Chapter of Abdominal Wall surgery of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)
- Director of the Training program of endoscopic surgery of the Spanish Association of Surgery (AEC)
- President of the Expert Committee of the Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (from 2018)
- Chairman of the working group “Surgery-Covid-AEC”
- President of the Expert Committee of the Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (from 2018)
- President of the National Commission for General and Digestive Surgery of the National Council of Specialties in Health Sciences of the Ministry of Health (from 2021)
- Visiting Professor of the School of Medicine at the Northeastern National University (Argentina)
- Visiting Professor of the Training program of Surgery of Malta
- Faculty of the IRCARD/EITS in Strasburg (France), in Barretos (Brazil) and Taiwan
- Faculty of the Italian School of Abdominal Wall Surgery
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Swiss Association for Hernia Surgery
- Honorary member of the Portuguese Society of Surgery (2002)
- Honorary member of the Society of Surgery of Cuba
- Honorary member of the of the Society of Surgery of Venezuela
- Honorary member of the Club Hernié (French Society of Abdominal wall)
- Honorary Member of the Andalusian Society of Surgery (2021)
- Live-time Achievement Award by the Turkish Society of Endoscopic Surgery (2021)
- Certificate in Laparoscopic Visceral Surgery by the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg (France)
- University Expert on Laparoscopic and Minimally Invasive Surgery by University Complutense of Madrid
- Expert in Obesity Surgery by SECO (Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery)
- President of the Spanish Chapter of Endoscopic Surgery of the AEC (2010 to 2014)
- President of the Spanish Chapter of Abdominal Wall Surgery of the AEC (2006 to 2010)
- Board Member of the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery (SECO) (2016-2020)
- Secretary of Education of European Hernia Society (EHS) (2012-1014)
- Board Member of the Technological Committee of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES) (2012-2016)
- Director of Research of the Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (2013-2017)
- President of the European congress of the European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons (EAES) in 2019.
- President of the European Congress of the European Hernia Society (EHS) in 2008.
- President of the Virtual Congress of the European congress of the European Hernia Society (EHS) in 2020.
- President of the European Congress of the European Hernia Society (EHS) in 2023
- Co-chairman of the International Congress of the EHS and AHS – Miami 2018
- Co-chairman of the International Congress “State of art in hernia Surgery” in 2018 (Lviv, Ukraine)
- Honorary President of Mesh 2018 (Official Congress of Chub Hernie) (Paris. France)
- Honorary President of the Congress of the Portuguese Society of Minimally Invasive Surgery 2019
- Papers published in peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed: 187
- H-index 38
- Author of different Clinical Guidelines and Consensus paper on different fields of surgery
- Books: - Several chapters of National and International books
- Books: “Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery”, “Laparoscopic ventral hernia repair”, “Guidelines of Abdominal wall surgery” “Guideline of Innovation in Surgery” “Surgery-AEC”
- “Illustrious Doctor” by The Royal College of Medicine of Sevilla (2018)
- “Andalusion Flag” for Research, Science and Health of the Andalusian Government (2022)
