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The doctor is part of the Hand Surgery service at HM Montepríncipe University Hospital. The team includes a head of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery, a fellowship-trained hand surgeon from the Christine M. Kleinert Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, and a surgeon with a European diploma in Hand Surgery from the European Federation of Hand Surgery (FESSH).

Academic Education:

• Degree in Medicine.
• Doctor in Medicine.
• FESC.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona.
• Multiple publications in national and international magazines.
• Directed various theses.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Idiopathic heart disease.
• Structural heart disease (valvular, anatomical defects, etc.).

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1999-2005).
• Subspecialist Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Joan de Déu Hospital (2010-2012).
• Medical specialist in Pediatrics and its specific areas at the Albacete University Hospital Complex (2006-2010).
• Studying the PhD of Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona Autonomous (2019-present).

Professional Experience:

• Pediatric Cardiologist at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2012-2018).
• Head of Service of the Cardiology Department at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2018-present).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Member of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), the Spanish Society of Pediatrics (SEP) and the Catalan Society of Pediatrics (SCP).
• Award for the best communication of the XIII National Congress of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiopathies (2020).
• Juan V Comas 2019 scholarship for the research project Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Area of excellence: Preventive Cardiology in cardiovascular diseases.
• Research lines: Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with pathology or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Role of the microbiota as a regulatory factor in obesity and metabolic disease.
• Doctoral Thesis: Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.
• Kawasaki Disease: Member of the Asenkawa Medical Advisory Team (Association of Parents of Kawasaki Disease).

Dr. Fernando Villagrá is a respected cardiovascular surgeon who specializes in pediatric cardiac surgery. He completed his medical degree at the Complutense University of Madrid. He later earned his specialization in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His doctoral thesis received the distinction of “Outstanding Cum Laude.”

Dr. Villagrá has more than 40 years of experience. He has led pediatric cardiac surgery departments at top hospitals in Spain, including Hospital Universitario La Paz and Montepríncipe University Hospital. He has performed thousands of complex surgeries. He has also contributed to over 100 scientific publications in both international and national journals.

He is a member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. He also serves on the editorial boards of leading medical journals. This reflects his dedication to advancing cardiovascular medicine.

Dr. Gontrand López-Nava Breviere is a medical specialist in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid (1993 to 1997), and Professor of Medicine at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid. 

Founder and Head of Service of the Department of Digestive System and Endoscopy of the Hospital San Rafael and the Hospital Universitario Sanchinarro (2007-2010).

Founder and Director of the Department of Bariatric Endoscopy of the Hospital Universitario Madrid Sanchinarro (2010-act). 

Doctor of Medicine from CEU San Pablo University in 2015

Physician Specialist in Pediatric Cardiology. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, since 2000.

Specialist in fetal echocardiography since 1993.

At the HM Montepríncipe University Hospital since February 2007.

Head of Hospitalization since September 2014. Consultation and emergency care in a pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery team located 24 hours a day in clinics in Madrid (Belén, San Francisco de Asís, San José, Moncloa, Virgen del Mar, Milagrosa, Nuevo Parque, Rosario and Santa Elena), without interruption since December 1991.

Dr. Julio Valle Muñoz has a degree in medicine and surgery, and is a specialist in the digestive system. Associate Physician of the Digestive System Service of the Virgen de la Salud Hospital in Toledo. In addition, he has worked for several years as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University Hospital of Helsinki (Finland), where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1999-2005).
• Subspecialist Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Joan de Déu Hospital (2010-2012).
• Medical specialist in Pediatrics and its specific areas at the Albacete University Hospital Complex (2006-2010).
• Studying the PhD of Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona Autonomous (2019-present).

Professional Experience:

• Pediatric Cardiologist at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2012-2018).
• Head of Service of the Cardiology Department at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2018-present).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Member of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), the Spanish Society of Pediatrics (SEP) and the Catalan Society of Pediatrics (SCP).

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Area of excellence: Preventive Cardiology in cardiovascular diseases.
• Research lines: Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with pathology or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Role of the microbiota as a regulatory factor in obesity and metabolic disease.
• Doctoral Thesis: Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.
• Kawasaki Disease: Member of the Asenkawa Medical Advisory Team (Association of Parents of Kawasaki Disease).