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Dr. Álvaro Cabello

Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery

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Professional career

Graduated in Medicine and Surgery (2010) from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, and earned a PhD (2016) from the University of Navarra.

Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (2016).

He has completed several training fellowships:

Training Fellowship in Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Hand Surgery, and Microsurgery. Division of Hand and Microsurgery, Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Shatin, Hong Kong (2017).

Senior Clinical Fellowship, Burns Unit, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom (2014).

Honorary Research Fellowship, Magill Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Management, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (2014).

Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby Royal Hospital, Derby, United Kingdom (2015).

Clinical Observership, St Vincent’s Hospital, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Melbourne, and Victoria Hand Surgery Association Hand Unit, Department of Plastic Surgery, Australia (2016).

Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Australia (2016).

Prince of Wales Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Division of Hand and Microsurgery, Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Hong Kong (2016).

RESEARCH AREAS

Static and dynamic facial reanimation

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging for studying brain plasticity after dynamic facial reanimation using the masseter nerve.
  • Rehabilitation of incomplete facial paralysis with the masseteric nerve.

Lymphedema

  • Histological diagnosis and molecular analysis.
  • Isotopic lymphoscintigraphy.
  • Indocyanine green lymphography.
  • Lymphaticovenular anastomosis.

Breast surgery

  • Patient satisfaction after breast reconstruction.
  • Comparison among different surgical techniques.
  • Study of late capsular contracture following distant infections.

Pressure ulcers

  • Treatment with stem cells obtained from autologous adipose tissue.

Burns

  • Postoperative complication rate in major burn surgery.
  • Analysis of graft take failure in burn patients: surgical and anesthetic variables.

Hand surgery

  • Demographics and prognostic factors in upper limb replantation.
  • Treatment of scaphoid pseudarthrosis using bone grafts or bone substitutes.

Activity

In teaching

  • Professor of the international Human Anatomy course “Expert Anatomy of the Upper Limb.” Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH. Department of Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid.
  • Professor of the international Human Anatomy course “Expert Anatomy of the Lower Limb.” Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH. Department of Anatomy, Histology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Madrid.
  • Assistant Professor of Human Anatomy – Musculoskeletal System (2011–2015). Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.
  • Clinical Practice Teaching Collaborator (2014–2015). Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra. Teaching Collaborator in Plastic Surgery for the Surgical Nursing specialty (2011–2014). Clínica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra.
  • Bilingual (English) Professor of Human Anatomy I – Musculoskeletal System (Academic Year 2015–2016). Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.
  • Associate Clinical Professor of Human Anatomy I (Bilingual in English) – Musculoskeletal System (2017–present). Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra.

In research

  • He has delivered 20 national and international presentations.
  • He has written several chapters in a Spanish-language plastic surgery book and two chapters in English.
  • He has contributed to numerous scientific articles published in high-impact journals.
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Awards

  • Pareja Yébenes Award from the Alumni Association for the best academic record of the 2004–2010 class. University of Granada.
  • Award for Best Poster at the 48th National Congress of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2013.
  • MENTOR Professional Education Award for Best Scientific Presentation by Residents at the 37th Basque-Navarre-Rioja-Aragon Regional Meeting, 2013.
  • 2015 Award from the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH) for Continuing Education in Hand Surgery in Europe, coordinated by Professor David Warwick MD BM FRCS FRCS(Orth), European Diploma of Hand Surgery, Consultant Hand Surgeon, University Hospital Southampton.
  • MENTOR Professional Education Award for Best Scientific Presentation by Residents at the 40th Basque-Navarre-Rioja-Aragon Regional Meeting, 2015.
  • 8th Ignacio Landecho Grant for the training of medical residents abroad (2015). Training stay at the Royal Children’s Hospital of Melbourne (Victoria), Australia, 2016.

Scientific organizations

  • Member of the Medical Association of Navarra.
  • Member of the General Medical Council in the United Kingdom.
  • Aspiring member of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.
  • Member of the Basque-Riojan-Navarrese-Aragonese Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.
  • Member of the National Commission for the specialty of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery. Ministry of Health. Spain.2014-2016.