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Imagen del Dr. Luis Chiva de Agustín, especialista en ginecología y obstetricia de la Clínica Universidad de Navarra. El Dr. Chiva se dedica preferencialmente a la ginecología oncológica.

Dr. Luis Chiva

Director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Primary focus on Gynecologic Oncology.

Works at: Madrid headquarters
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Professional career

Medical degree (1986) and PhD in Medicine and Surgery (2000) from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. He completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hospital La Paz (Madrid) (1988–1991).

In 1994, he completed a fellowship in Gynecologic Oncology at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center (Chicago) and subsequently worked in the Gynecologic Oncology Service at Hospital Gregorio Marañón from 1995 to 2002.

For the past 14 years, he has been the founding Director of the Department of Gynecologic Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center Madrid, where he was head of the Surgical Oncology area from 2008 to 2010.

RESEARCH AREAS

  • Infertility treatment without embryo manipulation
  • Surgery for advanced ovarian cancer
  • Hereditary cancer in women
  • Fertility preservation in female cancer
  • Surgical anatomy teaching models for gynecologists

In addition, he has participated in more than 25 clinical trials related to Gynecologic Oncology.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Gynecologic Oncology and Breast Disease
  • Infertility without embryo manipulation
  • Oncologic and reconstructive surgery
  • Laparoscopic surgery
  • Bioethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Activity

In teaching

  • Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
  • Faculty member, Department of Gynecology, The University of Texas, since 2005.
  • Professor of Surgical Oncology at Universidad Francisco de Vitoria since 2014.
  • In recent years, he has served as Director of the Teaching Committee and as a member of MD Anderson’s Research Committee.
  • Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Navarra, since December 2016.
  • Editor-in-Chief of ESGO eAcademy since May 2020.

In research

Member of the Scientific Committee of the American Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) and the only Spanish member of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) Quality Assessment Committee in Ovarian Cancer Surgery.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (SEGO).

Research activity:

• Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Gynecologic oncology: a multidisciplinary approach”.
• He has published more than 100 papers in national and international journals and has been invited as a speaker on more than 200 occasions.
•  He has written 21 book chapters and has organized 39 conferences.

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Awards

  • Involvement of the adrenal ovary in female hyper androgenism. Award of the Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology of Madrid. First edition.
  • Factors of persistence and recurrence of high grade sil after conization. Communication Award, meeting of the Oncologic Gynecology section of the SEGO. Valencia. November 1996.
  • Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors in epithelial ovarian cancer. Best Poster. XXII Meeting of the Gynecologic Oncology Section of the SEGO. Cáceres. October 1999.
  • Best Doctors Award 2012. Specialty Gynecology.

Scientific organizations

  • Full member of the American Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO).
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (SEGO).
  • Member of the European Society of Surgical Oncology.
  • Member of the International Society of Gynecologic Cancer.
  • Member of the European Society of Gynecologic Oncology.
  • Member of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
  • Member of the International Society of Cervical and Lower Genital Tract Pathology.
  • Member of the Spanish Society of Gynecologic Oncology and Breast Pathology.
  • Member of the Spanish Society of Surgical Oncology.
  • Member of the Spanish Society of Surgeons.
  • Member of the Spanish Association of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy.
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Multiple National Meetings.
  • Honorary Member of the Argentine Society of Gynecologic Oncology.
  • Honorary Member of the Hellenic Society of Gynecologic Oncology.