Our professionals
Dr. Bernardino Miñana
Director of the Department of Urology. Director of the Prostate Center.
Urology Specialist.
Primary focus on Urologic Oncology.
Professional career
MD from the University of Valencia and PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid (1998). He completed residency training in Urology (MIR pathway) at Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid (1993). University Master’s Degree in Medical Management and Clinical Governance from UNED and the National School of Public Health.
In 2010, he completed a fellowship at the AVK Auguste-Viktoria Hospital, Teaching Hospital of the Free University of Berlin. In 2013, he completed another fellowship in the Department of Urology at University College London.
Since 1996, he has served as Head of Urology at Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer, Murcia.
He has served as Coordinator of the Urologic Oncology Group and as Scientific Activities Board Member of the Spanish Association of Urology.
Director of the Department of Urology since 2017 and Director of the Clinic’s Prostate Center since 2020.
RESEARCH AREAS
He has collaborated on 13 research projects dedicated mainly to prostate cancer, treatment or improvement of bone problems in patients with cancer, men’s health, or benign prostatic hyperplasia.
He has also participated in 9 clinical trials related to urologic oncology, the prostate, and the bladder. He has led, collaborated on, or promoted 7 epidemiological research projects.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- His primary area of focus is urologic oncology.
- He specializes in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, Holmium laser techniques, and is a pioneer in Spain of transperineal mapping biopsies using fusion techniques and their application through focal therapy for prostate cancer.
Activity
In teaching
- ANECA-accredited as a Tenured Assistant Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) and private university professor.
- Director of the Chair of Urology at the Catholic University of San Antonio of Murcia (2013–2017).
- Professor of Urology at the University of Navarra since 2018.
- Supervisor of 3 doctoral dissertations. Member of doctoral dissertation committees.
In research
- Author or co-author of more than 100 publications in indexed journals, 15 book chapters, and more than 250 presentations at national and international conferences.
- He has contributed to the editing of several specialty-related books and has organized 19 scientific events.
Scientific organizations
- Member of the National Prostate Health Council.
- National Coordinator of Oncological Urology of the Spanish Association of Urology.
- Member of the European Association of Urology.
- President of the Association for Murcian Urological Research.
- Member of the Spanish Association of Quality Care.
- Numerary member of the Spanish Association of Urology.