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Dr. Mikel San Julián
Specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology.
Primary focus on musculoskeletal tumors.
Professional career
MD degree (1988) and PhD in Medicine (1994) from the University of Navarra. Specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology at Clínica Universidad de Navarra (1994).
He has completed fellowships at the Karolinska Institute (Sweden, 1997), Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (USA, 2000), and Leiden University Medical Center (The Netherlands, 2018-19).
Specialist in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology at Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
RESEARCH AREAS
He participates in several research projects, notably those focused on the study of metastasis in pediatric osteosarcoma, inhibition of radiation-induced fibrosis, immunotherapy in pediatric solid tumors, etc., funded by entities such as the Health Research Fund, National R&D&I Institute, the Spanish Association Against Cancer, etc.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Musculoskeletal tumors.
- Pediatric orthopedics.
- Hip disorders.
- Bone bank.
Activity
In teaching
Associate Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Navarra.
He has taught 27 international courses and 34 national courses.
In research
He has edited 5 books (4 in English, one of them translated into Chinese, and one in Spanish) and has contributed chapters to another 71.
He has published more than 83 articles in international specialty scientific journals, many of them in the first quartile, and 37 in national journals. Many of them can be consulted on Scopus, ResearchGate or PubMed.
In addition, he has delivered more than 300 presentations at national and international scientific conferences, 142 of them as an invited speaker.
Scientific organizations
- Member of EMSOS (European Musculoskeletal Oncology Society) since 1994. From 2002 to 2012 he was a member of the Board of this Society.
- Member of the Board of EAMST (European Association of Musculoskeletal Transplantation).
- Founding member of the Spanish Association of Tissue Banks.
- Member of the Basque-Navarre Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology.
- Member of the Spanish Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SECOT).
- Member of the Group for the Study of Locomotor System Tumors (GRETAL) of the Spanish Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology.
- Director of the Bone Bank of the Clinica Universidad de Navarra.