Our professionals
Dr. David Gurpegui
Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic, and Reconstructive Surgery.
Primary focus on the treatment of tumors and complex trauma requiring reconstruction using novel or microsurgical techniques.
Professional career
MD, University of Navarra, 2018.
Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic, and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, 2024.
Fellowships/Rotations:
- Major Burns Unit, Hospital Universitario La Paz (Madrid).
- Plastic Surgery Department, Hospital del Mar (Barcelona), where complex facial reconstructions are performed using microsurgery.
- Plastic Surgery Department, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona), focused on the latest advances in lymphedema treatment and prevention and robotic surgery.
- DEMYA Clinic (Martín del Yerro – Amselem), a leading center for aesthetic surgery in Spain.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Member of the Sophrosyne research group: health, emerging technologies, and beauty.
- Coordinator of the UNATI clinical trial
Project No.: 101097681 (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101097681).
Title: A non-inferiority randomized trial testing advice on a moderate drinking pattern versus advice on abstention regarding major disease and mortality.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Particularly interested in the relationship between technology and health in the field of plastic surgery, as well as new interactions that may arise from the integration of tools with the human body.
- Currently completing a PhD thesis on the influence of Donna Haraway’s thought on embodiment and plastic surgery.
- Interested in complex reconstructions across different anatomical areas requiring new technologies, typically after tumors or severe trauma.
- Interest in novel therapies with a focus on human rejuvenation.
Activity
In teaching
- Teaching collaborator, Complutense University of Madrid, 2019–2024.
In research
- Author of 3 scientific publications in national and international journals.
- Has presented at national and international conferences on complex abdominal wall defects, the effects of intraoperative radiotherapy in sacral tumors, breast reconstruction with a split flap from the contralateral breast, treatment of pressure ulcers in COVID+ patients, a new technique for meningeal reconstruction, etc.