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Dr. Mª Teresa Herraiz

Director of the Department of Gastroenterology. Head of the Prevention Unit and High-Risk Digestive Tumors Clinic.
Specialist in Gastroenterology.

Works at: Navarre headquarters
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Professional career

Medical degree (1994) and PhD in Medicine and Surgery (2002) from the University of Navarra. Specialist in Gastroenterology (1998) at Clínica Universidad de Navarra. Postdoctoral stay at the High-Risk Digestive Tumors Clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard University) from May 2005 to October 2007.

Since 1999, staff physician in the Department of Gastroenterology at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.

Head of the Prevention Unit and High-Risk Digestive Tumors Clinic at Clínica Universidad de Navarra since January 2008 to present.

RESEARCH AREAS

She has participated in 11 basic and clinical research projects funded with public resources on the prevention and treatment of digestive tumors.

AREAS OF INTEREST

Her main areas of interest are the prevention of digestive tract tumors (primarily colon) in the general population and in high-risk populations, and the diagnosis and management of hereditary forms of digestive cancer through advanced endoscopy.

She has developed new genomic tools for the diagnosis of hereditary cancer using next-generation sequencing techniques and seeks to implement the role of liquid biopsy in the early detection of cancer. 

Activity

In teaching

  • Assistant Professor with a PhD (Profesora Contratada Doctora) accredited by ANECA since April 2009. She teaches in different courses of the Medical Degree at the University of Navarra (gastroenterology, genetics, problem-based learning).
  • Professor in the Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Navarra.
  • Master’s in Medical Education, University of Navarra (2013–2014).
     

In research

Author of 47 publications in national and international journals, 2 books, and 9 book chapters.

She has presented more than 100 communications at national/international conferences and 17 invited lectures and presentations.
 

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Acknowledgements

  • In November 2018, she was appointed President of the Spanish Society of Digestive Endoscopy (SEED)

Organismos científicos

  • Tesorera de la Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva para los años: 2012-2015.
  • Miembro del “Grupo Español de Calidad para la Colonoscopia de Cribado”.
  • Miembro del Comité Ejecutivo de la “Alianza para la prevención del cáncer de colon”.