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Dr. Isabel Rubio
Director of the Breast Pathology Unit. Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery.
Specialization in oncologic breast surgery and breast disease.
Professional career
Medical degree from the University of Salamanca (1989), she completed her specialization in General Surgery at Hospital Infanta Cristina in Badajoz and, in 2000, earned her PhD from the University of Extremadura.
With the aim of improving training in the management of patients with breast cancer, she moved to the United States and completed a subspecialty in oncologic breast surgery at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center for two years.
Afterwards, she completed her training for eight months at the Breast Cancer Center at MD Anderson in Houston, USA.
Until joining la Clínica, she was the coordinator of the Breast Pathology Unit at Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona and co-director of the Breast Cancer Unit at the Baselga Oncology Institute (Quirón Hospital Group) in Barcelona.
RESEARCH AREAS
- She is the national coordinator of clinical trials in genomic profiles such as the MINDACT study, has participated in studies on breast cancer diagnosed during pregnancy, and on sentinel lymph node biopsy after neoadjuvant therapy.
- She is part of the EORTC study on breast cancer in men. Principal investigator in the international prospective registry of nipple-areola complex-sparing mastectomy (INSPIRE study) within EURECCA (European Registry of Cancer Care).
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Her area of specialization focuses on the use of the sentinel lymph node and breast-conserving surgery after neoadjuvant treatment, intraoperative breast ultrasound, risk-reducing surgery in patients at high risk of developing breast cancer, as well as sentinel prevention.
Activity
In teaching
- Associate Professor of Surgery at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Navarra
In research
- She has published more than more than 150 articles in national and international journals and has contributed to several books related to breast cancer.
- Reviewer for highly prestigious journals such as Annals of Surgical Oncology, The Breast, and European Journal of Surgical Oncology, as well as Associate Editor at the Journal of Surgical Oncology.
Acknowledgement
- ESSO President. European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).
- Appointed President-Elect of EUSOMA (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists) in 2018
Scientific organizations
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Association of Oncological Surgeons (SEOQ) and until this year an international member of the American Society for Oncological Surgery (SSO).
- She is also a director of the Breast Surgery Division of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), and an examiner for the European Board of Surgery Qualifications (EBSQ) in Breast Surgery.
- She has been president of the Spanish Association of Breast Surgeons (AECIMA, 2014-2016).