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Imagen del Dr. Javier Escalada San Martin, especialista de Endocrinología de la Clínica Universidad de Navarra. El Dr. Escalada se dedica preferencialmente al diagnóstico y tratamiento de la diabetes mellitus, obesidad, enfermedad hepática esteatósica metabólica y osteoporosis y al estudio y tratamiento endocrinológico de tumores gastroenteropancreáticos.

Dr. Javier Escalada

Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition.
Primary dedication to the diagnostic study and treatment of diabetes mellitus, obesity, metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, and osteoporosis. Endocrinologic study and treatment of gastroenteropancreatic tumors.

Works at: Navarre headquarters
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Professional career

Medical degree from the University of the Basque Country (1986) and PhD in Medicine from the University of Alcalá de Henares (1994). Specialist in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition at Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid (1988-1991).

FIS Fellow, 1992-1994.

Attending physician in the Endocrinology Department at Santiago Apóstol Hospital (Vitoria) from June 1994 to May 2005.

Attending physician in the Endocrinology Department at “Lozano Blesa” University Clinical Hospital from May 2005 to September 2007.

Staff physician in the Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra since September 2007.

Director of the Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition since June 2018.

RESEARCH AREAS

  • He has served as Associate Editor of the official journal of the Spanish Society of Diabetes, “Avances en Diabetología”, and as Editor-in-Chief of the official journal of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition and the Spanish Society of Diabetes, “Endocrinología, Diabetes y Nutrición”.
  • Reviewer for the journals Journal of Diabetes and its Complications, European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Endocrinología y Nutrición, Avances en Diabetología.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease and cardiovascular risk.
  • Diabetic nephropathy: new pathogenic pathways in chronic kidney disease in diabetes and potential future therapeutic targets.
  • Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Cardioprotective mechanisms of GLP-1.
  • Precision medicine and obesity.

Activity

In teaching

  • Adjunct Professor (Health Sciences) at the School of Medicine of the University of Zaragoza.
  • Professor in the Master’s program “University Expert Degree in the treatment of type 2 diabetes”. Chair in type 2 diabetes mellitus at the University of Alcalá de Henares and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
  • Teaching collaborator at the University of Navarra since 2007, accredited by ANECA for Full Professor in October 2023.
  • Member of the Clínica’s Teaching Committee.

In research

  • He has published more than 70 articles in national and international scientific journals.
  • Author/co-author of more than 10 chapters in books in his specialty.
  • Author/co-author of more than 100 conference presentations at national and international meetings.
  • He has been invited to deliver more than 30 lectures at national and international conferences.
  • He has participated as Principal Investigator in 4 research projects and as a co-investigator in 9 other projects.
  • Recognition of 3 six-year research terms.
  • He has supervised 3 doctoral dissertations.
  • Total Google Scholar citations (as of January 2024): 4515.
  • h-index 28.
  • i10-index 61.
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Acknowledgements

  • President of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (2020-2023).
  • President of the Foundation of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (2023-).
  • I MERCO-Observatorio de Salud Award to the most reputable physician in 2023.

Scientific organizations

  • Associate member of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition.
  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (2004-2006).
  • Associate member of the Spanish Society of Diabetes.
  • He is a member of the Diabetes Area of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN), the SEEN Metabolic Liver Disease Working Group and the SEEN Lipids and Cardiovascular Risk Working Group.
  • Associate member of the European Society of Endocrinology.