Norberto Gandara Adan

Biography

  Academic Qualifications • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from Zaragoza University (1981). • Doctor in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid (1999). Specialist Training • Consultant in General and Digestive System Surgery. 12 de 0ctubre Hospital of Madrid (1986). Areas of expertise: • Esophagectomy, gastrectomy, hiatal hernia repair/fundoplication. • Gastric derivations, cholecystectomy in Mirizzi syndrome, cholecystoduodenal and cholecystocolonic fistulas. • Choledocholithotomy, choledocoduodenal derivation. • Distal Pancreatectomy, splenectomy, liver resections in previous segments. • Right, left, and transverse hemicolectomy. • Low anterior resection of the rectum. • Coloanal anastomosis. • Abdomino-perineal amputation. • Subtotal colectomy. • Panproctocolectomy/ ileo-anal pouch. Professional Experience • Consultant in General Surgery for Health Care needs at the San Pedro de Alcántara Hospital in Cáceres (1987). • Acting Head Consultant in General Surgery at the San Pedro de Alcántara Hospital in Caceres, by appointment of the Medical Board (1991). • Associate Doctor of the Costa del Sol Hospital (1993-1996). • Area Director for Integrated Surgical Management at the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella (since1996).

Research Interest

  Publications • Gándara N. Hepatic transplant in receptors of over 60 years. Actualization in Surgery of the digestive tract. Madrid, 1999. • Gándara N. Current status of liver transplantation in alcoholic cirrhosis. Update on Surgery of the digestive tract Madrid, 1999.   • Gándara N. choledocholithiasis. Treatment of 103 cases. Andalusian surgery. Vol. III, No. 8. 1992 • Gándara N. The intestinal resections in acute mesenteric ischemia. In: Moreno-González E, ed. Update on Surgery of the digestive tract vol VI. Madrid: Jarpyo: 1990 Oct; 7-14 : Other Achievements         • Member of the International College of Surgeons. • Founding Partner of the Extremadura Surgery Society. • Full Member of the Extremadura Society for Intensive Care Medicine and Coronary Care Units. • Member of the Spanish Association of Surgeons, the Andalusian Association of Surgeons, the Spanish Society of digestive pathologies and the Spanish Association for the study of the liver.