Best CT (computer tomography) doctors in Spain: TOP 29 doctors

Oncologist, Specialist in skin cancer treatment

Dr. Antonio Alcaraz is a Spanish uro-oncologist and transplantologist with over 30 years of experience and 500 successful operations, specializing in the treatment of prostate cancer, kidney, bladder, and other urogenital system pathologies using minimally invasive and robotic systems, as well as congenital pathologies in children. He is a member of several prestigious urological societies.

Dr. Aranda received his degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Universidad de Málaga in 1983. He specialized in traumatology and orthopedics at the Department of Traumatology and Surgical Orthopedics of the Instituto Dexeus, Barcelona between 1988 and 1993. under the direction of Dr. Villarrubias.

Throughout his medical practice, Dr.Aranda has worked in leading hospitals in Spain, participated in the medical support of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona and was a traumatologist in the Federación Española de Motociclismo in the European and World Championships in the period 1982 - 1992.

Dr. Aranda currently concentrates his medical practice on the treatment of pathologies of the hip and foot at Hospital Quironsalud Marbella and is a traumatologist at the Sociedad Sportclinic Marbella, a member of the Spanish Society for Hip Surgery Secca.

One of the world-renowned pioneers in gastrointestinal surgery. Has developed new techniques for the colon and rectum cancer treatment TaTMEТ and NOTES — applied now around the world.
Has performed over 15,000 surgeries.
Performs over 1,000 interventions a year using minimally invasive techniques.
President of the Association of Surgeons-Endoscopists in Europe.

Doctor with a degree in medicine and surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Cardiovascular Surgery specialization from the Autonomous University of Madrid. Has experience in pediatric cardiac surgery in various hospitals in Spain and the US, and has published more than 100 articles in international and national journals.

During his career, Dr. Covaro has a continuous participation in international meetings and contributed to several articles published in scientific magazines. Dr. Covaro is a member of several professional organizations, including the Spanish Society of Orthopedics, AOspine, GEER and Eurospine.

Currently, Dr. Covaro attends his patients at the Institut Universitari Dexeus and the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, in Barcelona. To make an appointment with Dr. Augusto Covaro, contact ICATME, Institut Universitari Dexeus

He completed two fellowships in spinal surgery, one in Aarhus, Denmark, with the support of the SICOT international society in 2012 and the second in complex spine surgery in Uppsala, Sweden, in 2016, with the support of a grant from the international society AOspine .

During his career, Dr. Covaro has a continuous participation in international meetings and contributed to several articles published in scientific magazines.

He has a great experience in the treatment of patients and uses the knowledge he has acquired to provide each patient with the best quality of care.

Dr. Covaro is a member of several professional organizations, including the Spanish Society of Orthopedics, AOspine, GEER and Eurospine.

Dr Romero Imbroda is an academic of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Eastern Andalusia and a Fellow of the European Board of Neurology, as well as a Member of the Board of Directors of the

Andalusian Society of Neurology. He combines his medical practice with his teaching role at the University of Granada, where he is a Lecturer and has been a Member of the Internal Residential Doctor Assessment Committee in Melilla until 2017.

He is the author of several national and international scientific publications. He has also participated in research projects associated with treatments for multiple sclerosis.

Professional Experience:

• 2020: President of the Andalusian Society of Neurology

• 2019: Head of the Units at the Quirónsalud Malaga and Marbella Hospitals

• 2017-2021: Neurologist at the Regional Malaga University Hospital.

• 2016-2017: Lecturer at the University of Granada.

• 2009-2017: Neurologist at the Imbrain Neuroscience Clinic. Melilla.

• 2009-2017: Neurologist at the Melilla Hospital.

• 2008-2009: Neurologist at the Virgen de las Nieves Hospital. Granada.

• 2004-2008: Neurologist at the Carlos Haya Hospital. Malaga.

Academic Training:

• 2017: Innovation and Leadership in Neurology. Business Institute. Madrid.

• 2014: Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. United States.

• 2011-2012: Management of Integrated Health Services. ESADE. Madrid.

• 2010: Neurologists for the Future. Spanish Neurology Society.

• 2010: Master in Tissue Engineering. University of Granada.

• 2010: Doctorate at the University of Granada. Summa Cum Laude. 2010.

• 2004-2008: Neurology specialist at the Carlos Haya Hospital. Malaga.

• 1997-2003: University Graduate in Medicine at the University of Granada.

The Neurology Unit of the Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital specialises in the study and treatment of conditions associated to the nervous system, the brain, the spinal cord, the peripheral nerves and the muscles. We have the most advanced technology that enables us to make accurate and personalised diagnoses and treatments in the study of patients with complex diagnoses and treatments (MRI, CT scan,electroencephalogram, transacranial doppler ultrasound, cerebral arteriogramand neuropschycological testing).

We offer our patients highly-specialised treatments for cerebrovascular and neuromuscular diseases, Parkinson's Disease, headaches and migraine, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, peripheral neuropathies, infections of the nervous system, movement disorders, dementia and other cognitive conditions, paediatric neurology, sleep disorders, tumours and complications deriving from injuries to the spine and the head.

He is an expert in cardiac arrhythmia, pacemaker implantation, internal defibrillators and catheter ablation; and he conducts diagnostic electrophysiological studies.

He also carries out extensive teaching work as a Senior Lecturer of the Medicine Department of the Malaga University, where he teaches the subject Diseases of the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems to fourth-year medical students.

He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in influential journals. At the same time, he has contributed to the preparation of clinical practice guides and is the author of 23 books and chapters of scientific titles in the speciality.

Professional experience

University Degree in Medicine and Surgery (1978) obtained at the Zaragoza University.

Degree as Doctor in Medicine by the Zaragoza University with final thesis “Cardiac Automatism and Conduction in a Model of Experimental Heterotopic Cardiac Transplantation. Effects of Verapamil”, which obtained a cum laude award.

Training as a Resident Doctor in Cardiology at Clínica Puerta de Hierro in Madrid (1979-1984).

Cardiology Medical Consultant and the Head of the Arrhythmia Unit at Clínica Puerta de Hierro (1985-1992).

Other positions:

Coordinator of the Implantable Defibrillator working team of the Spanish Cardiology Society (2009 – 2016).

Member of the European Society of Cardiology.

Member of the European Heart Rhythm Association.

Member of the Spanish Cardiology Society.

Member of the Andalusian Cardiology Society.

Member of the Editorial Committee of the Spanish Cardiology Journal.

Member of the Editorial Committee of Cardiocore.

Member of the Editorial Committee of Cardiac Stimulation Notebooks.

The Cardiology Unit of Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital is made up of a medical team with large experience in the diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases, as well as employing the most advanced technologies, both in the clinical area and in the area of haemodynamics and arrhythmia.

Diseases, treatments and techniques:

• Clinical cardiology

- Adult and children cardiology consultation with the performance of supplementary tests, all within one appointment.

- Specific consultations for arrhythmia

- Paedriatic cardiology

- Colour Doppler echocardiography and stress echocardiography

- Stress test

- 24-hour and long-term Holter EKG

- CT coronary angiogram

- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)

- Tilt table testing

- Cardiac rehabilitation

Cardiac haemodynamics

- Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation and percutaneous treatment of ischaemic heart disease with angioplasty and stent implant

- Myocardial infarction percutaneous treatment programme

- Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)

- Percutaneous repair of the mitral valve (Mitral clip)

- Percutaneous closure of interatrial communication

- Percutaneous closure of left atrial appendage

Arrhythmia Unit 

- Diagnostic electrophysiological study 

- Catheter ablation

 - Cryoablation of atrial fibrillation

 - Ablation using a complex arrhythmic substrate navigator

 - Pacemaker implantation 

- Automatic endovenous and subcutaneous implantable

defibrillator

Cardiac surgery 

- Surgery with and without extracorporeal circulation

- Minimally-invasive surgery with an early extubation

• - Repair of mitral and aortic valves

In 2007 he joined the Costa del Sol Hospital and left this position when he obtained an international scholarship that would take him back to San Francisco. In 2010 he moved to Japan to complete his training in the submucosal endoscopic dissection technique that he would later on introduce in Andalusia in 2011, thus becoming one of the pioneers in the performance of this technique in Spain. In 2011 he became the first medical professional in the world to use the 15-mm AXIOS stent in pancreatic fluid collection drainage. In 2018 he began to perform gastroenteroanastomosis with luminal apposition stent in patients with pancreatic cancer and bowel obstruction, thus becoming a pioneer in Andalusia to perform such technique.

He is a coauthor of the reference guides of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy on the endoscopic treatment of chronic pancreatitis and non-variceal gastrointestinal haemorrhage.

Professional Experience

Over 24 years' experience

1999 - Degree in Medicine and Surgery. Malaga University, Spain.

2003 to 2006 - Medical Residency in the Digestive System at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville, Spain.

2006 - International Scholar at the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, USA.

2007 – Digestive System Specialist at the Costa del Sol Hospital, Marbella. Spain.

2008 - California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, USA.

2009 - Top Reviewer Award received from the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Journal.

2011 – Pioneer in Spain in the introduction of the submucosal endoscopic dissection technique.

2011 – First professional in the world to use the AXIOS (15mm) stent for pancreatic fluid collection drainage.

2016 - Gold Medal of the Andalusian Society for Digestive Disease (SAPD, in its Spanish abbreviation).

2017 - Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (FACG).

2018 - Pioneer in Andalusia to perform gastroenteroanastomosis with luminal apposition stent to treat bowel obstruction.

2019 - Fellow of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE).

The Digestive System Unit of the Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital offers a patient service portfolio that includes all the clinical aspects of gastroenterology, hepatology, biliary duct and pancreatic disease, as well as the diagnostic and treatment techniques used in this speciality such as abdominal ultrasound, endoscopy and other functional tests.

Our specialists have solid professional backgrounds and the team is highly qualified for the diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases such as conditions related to acidity (gastric ulcers, helicobacter pylori, gastroesophageal reflux disease), enteropathies (Crohn's Disease, ulcerative colitis; coeliac disease...), viral hepatitis, hepatic cirrhosis, pancreatic disease...

The Digestive System Unit of the Quirónsalud Marbella Hospital is a pioneer in the implementation of a specific check-up programme for digestive disease with special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of colon precancerous lesions.

Diseases, treatments and techniques:

• Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound

• Endoscopic resection techniques (mucosectomy/submucosal dissection)

• Submucosal or third-space endoscopy (POEM and variants)

• Bariatric endoscopy (Apollo Method)

A specialist in the digestive system through MIR from the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona, he received his PhD from the University of Barcelona.

He completed his postgraduate training in the Gastroenterology Service of the Barcelona Hospital Clinic and then in the Department of Gastroenterology at Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA), where he conducted cutting-edge research on inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis).

From 2004 to 2011 he worked in the Gastroenterology Department of the Barcelona Hospital Clinic / IDIBAPS, and since 2011 he has worked as a specialist doctor in the Digestive System Department of the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona.

He was a member of the Scientific Committee of ECCO and coordinator of the European project "IBDChip". He is the author of more than 150 publications and 500 presentations at conferences and conferences.

Experience:

Digestive system specialist, completed the MIR training program and completed his residency in this specialty at the Provincial Hospital of Barcelona between 1993 and 1996.

Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona with the qualification "Distinguished Diploma Unanimously". In 2001 he received the Distinguished Doctorate from the University of Barcelona.

Between 1997 and 1999, he completed his postgraduate training in the Gastroenterology Department of the Provincial Hospital of Barcelona. Subsequently, he completed two internships in the Gastroenterology Department of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA, between 2000 and 2003, where he conducted cutting-edge research in the field of gastroenterology.

Since 2004 he has been working in the Gastroenterology Service of the Provincial Hospital of Barcelona / IDIBAPS, focusing on the treatment and research of inflammatory bowel diseases.

He is the author of numerous publications, conference papers and book chapters both nationally and internationally.

Member of the Catalan Society of Gastroenterology, the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology, the Spanish Working Group on Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis and the American Gastroenterological Association.

Areas of special interest: storage rhythm disorders, chronic diarrhea, inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis) and other causes of chronic intestinal inflammation.

Dr. Sullivan graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the National University of Rosario in 2005, specializing in Medical Oncology through the MIR at the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital (HSCiSP, 2012) in Barcelona.

She received a post-MIR scholarship from the Ministry of Interior from HSPiSP (2012) and then a pre-doctoral scholarship from ISCiii (Rio Hortega – 2013-2015).

In 2014, he moved to Paris where he obtained a DUERTECC diploma at the Gustave Roussy University Hospital (Villejuif), followed by an ESMO scholarship (Georges Mathé Translator Scholarship), which he received in 2016.

Since January 2017, he has been working on the staff of the Medical Oncology Department of the HSCiSP. In the same year, he obtained his PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Since 2015, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Lung Cancer Group (GECP). And since 2022, he has been the coordinator of the HSCiSP Committee on Neuroendocrine Tumors.

In November 2021, she joined the IOR Medical Oncology Service and is actively involved in various research projects in the Pangea Lab under the supervision of Dr. Molina.

Dr. Sullivan is involved in several clinical trials in lung cancer and neuroendocrine tumors, many of which have been presented at various international scientific meetings.

She has participated in national and international conferences and is an author and co-author of research articles published in influential journals.

She is currently a member of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM), GECP, European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the Spanish Group of Neuroendocrine and Endocrine Tumors (GETNE).

Dr. Javier Albiñana Silveti is a specialist in orthopedic surgery and pediatric traumatology. He has over 38 years of experience in the treatment of hip dysplasia, bone tumors, malformations and Perthes disease.

Experience

2013 – present | Pediatric Traumatology at the Ruber Internacional and Quirón Hospital in Pozuelo.

2004-2013|Head of the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics at the La Paz Hospital in Madrid.

1994-2004| Assistant in pediatric orthopedics at the Niño Jesus Hospital in Madrid

1992-1994 | Fellow, Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, University of Iowa (USA)

1988-1989|Research Fellow in Paediatric Orthopaedics, Oxford University (UK).

Qualification

1988 | Doctor of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid.

1982 | Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

Education:

2004|Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the UAM.

Publications

2019|Does femoral head orientation influence acetabular development? An experimental study in Lamb. J Pediatr Orthop. 2019 Sep;39(8):416–421.

2015|Pavlik harness outcomes in Ortolani-positive hips: predictors of failure and arthrographic findings. J Child Orthop 2015 Aug;9(4):249-53.

2013|Selective triradiate epiphysiodesis for the treatment of residual experimental acetabular dysplasia. J Pediatr Orthop. 2013 Dec;33(8):821-8.

Communications and presentations

2021|Perthes Disease. Congress of Pediatric Orthopedics, SEOT, Ecuador.

2019|Dysplasia of the hip, Children's Hospital, San Jose, Costa Rica, April 2019

2018| Cerebral Palsy, ASFAPE, Madrid.

2007 | Tear and Dysplasia of the Hip, POSNA, San Diego.

2005 | Open reduction failure and DDH. Boston, IPOTT.