Our professionals
Dr. Fernando Rotellar
Director of the Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Specialist in General Surgery.
Primary clinical focus on obesity surgery.
Professional career
Medical and Surgical degree from the Universidad de Oviedo in 1995 and PhD from the Universidad de Navarra in 2008.
Specialist in General and Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra in 2001.
European Board of Surgery (EBS) Qualification in Transplantation Surgery (Multiorgan retrieval, Liver transplantation): Paris, 2009.
European Board of Surgery (EBS) Qualification in Hepatobiliary or Pancreatic Surgery: Cape Town, 2011.
IFSO-Surgeon of Excellence for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. EAC-BS accreditation in 2011 and renewed in 2015.
He has completed his training with stays at various centers abroad in America, Europe, and Asia, especially those dedicated to Living Donor Liver Transplantation (Rochester, 2001), application of the laparoscopic approach to Living Donor Liver Transplantation (New York, 2012), and application of Robotics in Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery (Charlotte, 2018). The latter two were made possible thanks to the Spanish Society of Liver Transplantation Scholarship and the Senior Scholarship of the Medical Association of Navarre, respectively.
RESEARCH AREAS
He is involved in 10 research projects.
AREAS OF INTEREST
He has carried out his work primarily in the field of bariatric surgery and, above all, hepatobiliopancreatic surgery. His contribution to the development of minimally invasive techniques in liver and pancreas surgery and in living donor liver transplantation stands out.
Activity
In teaching
Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Universidad de Navarra since 2008, teaching several courses related to General Surgery.
In research
He is the author or co-author of more than 150 specialized publications and two master’s degrees in Surgery, and has been invited to deliver more than one hundred lectures at national and international congresses and courses.