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Dr. Rafael Martínez-Monge
Specialist in Radiation Oncology.
Principal Investigator of the Adhesion and Metastasis group at CIMA, University of Navarra.
Works at:
Navarre headquarters
Be part of:
Cima Universidad de Navarra
Clínica Universidad de Navarra
Cancer Center Clínica Universidad de Navarra
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Professional career
Degree in Medicine, University of Zaragoza (1989), and PhD, University of Navarra, 1994.
Postdoctoral placement as a Radiation Oncology Fellow at The Ohio State University, United States (1996-1998); subsequently promoted to Visiting Assistant Professor (1998-1999).
RESEARCH AREAS
- At the Clínica, he led the launch of the Brachytherapy Unit (2000).
- Notably, he developed the in-house technique of High-Dose-Rate Perioperative Brachytherapy in collaboration with several surgical departments, especially in head and neck, sarcoma and gynaecological cancer.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- His clinical areas of interest include gynaecological tumours, prostate cancer, sarcomas and head and neck tumours.
Activity
In teaching
- He was accredited by ANECA as “Profesor Contratado Doctor” (2005), as Tenured Professor via National Habilitation (2007), and as Full Professor (Chair) in 2010. He has supervised a total of 24 doctoral theses and undergraduate/master’s final projects.
In research
- Author of more than 185 indexed scientific publications. He has also participated as an invited speaker in more than 50 PhD programmes, courses and scientific symposia, and has received the American Brachytherapy Society (ABS) Resident Award (1998) and the Roentgen Fellow Award from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA, 1998), as well as two awards from the Spanish Society of Radiation Oncology (SEOR, 2001 and 2007).
- He is a researcher in the Solid Tumours Programme at CIMA, University of Navarra, in the area of radiotherapy resistance, with a total of 14 grants awarded.