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Dr. Loreto García
Diagnostic Radiology Specialist
Preferred focus on chest radiology.
Professional career
Medical Degree (MD), Universidad de Navarra, 1996.
PhD in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Navarra, October 2022.
Radiology Specialist, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, April 2001.
Secretary of the Board of the Radiology Department, March 2004 to February 2015.
Resident Tutor, Radiology Department, July 2002 to March 2006.
Member of the Teaching Committee of Clínica Universidad de Navarra since December 2010. First Member of this Committee and member of the standing committee since October 2012. Secretary of this committee since March 2022 to the present.
Chair of the Medical-Legal Committee of Clínica Universidad de Navarra since 2018 to the present.
Lead, General Abdominal and Urologic Radiology. Lead, Pelvic Floor Radiology. Collaborator in General Chest and Musculoskeletal Radiology. April 2001–December 2007.
Member of the Head and Neck and Chest Radiology area, leading general chest radiology and collaborating in neck ultrasounds and chest CT. Since January 2008.
Deputy Medical Director of Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona campus. October 2017 to 2020.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Collaborator with the international ELCAP group in the early detection of lung cancer.
- Medical Education: empathy training for medical students.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Study of early diagnosis of lung and cardiac disease using plain radiography and CT.
- Postgraduate teaching/resident training.
- Medical Education Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Navarra.
Activity
In teaching
- Clinical Associate Professor for the course Radiology and Clinical Therapeutics at Universidad de Navarra (2001–2012).
- Clinical Associate Professor for the course Chest Radiology (4th year) at Universidad de Navarra since 2012.
- Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Navarra, since 2022.
- Instructor for the Preclinical course in 2nd-year Medicine (2011–2014).
- Instructor for the course “Behavior and attitudes in medical practice”, 2014–2015 academic year.
- Advisor to medical students (1st–3rd year), since 1997.
- Speaker in the continuing education course for MIR physicians: Chest Radiology, held every two years since 2001.
- Coordinator of rotations for 3rd-year medical students in the integrated curriculum in Pamplona, since the 2023/24 academic year.
In research
- She has published 15 articles in national and international scientific journals.
- Author of 6 book chapters.
- She has presented more than 75 communications at national and international conferences.