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Dr. Víctor Valentí
Medical Director of the Pamplona campus of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery.
Co-director of the Obesity Area.
Primary focus on obesity surgery.
Professional career
Degree (2000) and PhD (2006) in Medicine from the University of Navarra.
Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery in 2006 at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Clinical Fellow in Esophagogastric Surgery. Ealing Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London. January–December 2007.
Visiting Observer, Surgery / Foregut Department, University Hospital of Southern California, Los Angeles. June 2008.
Clinical Fellow in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College London. January–February 2012.
Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Unit, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Miami, USA. June 2014.
Since 2006 he has been a specialist in the Department of General and Digestive Surgery at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
Medical Director of the Pamplona campus of the Clínica Universidad de Navarra since 2023.
RESEARCH AREAS
He has collaborated in 12 research projects.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Surgery for obesity and metabolic surgery.
Activity
In teaching
Associate Professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Navarra.
In research
He has published more than 110 scientific articles in national and international journals.
Co-author of 4 books.
He has given more than 100 presentations and communications at national and international conferences.
Titles
- Medical Practitioner in General Surgery. General Medical Council, UK. January 2007. Certificate of Competence in Bariatric Surgery, SECO. August 2013.
- Surgeon of Excellence for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. European Accreditation Council for Bariatric Surgery (IFSO-endorsed COE Program), EAC-BS.
- Diploma: Expert Surgeon in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Spanish Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (SECO).
Acknowledgements
- He has received in 2012 the Scholarship of the Spanish Association of Surgeons for specialists in surgery (AEC).
- In 2013 he was awarded with the Scholarship Award International Federation of Surgical Obesity (IFSO).
- Senior Scholarship 2014 of the Fundación Colegio de Médicos de Navarra.
Scientific organizations
- Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC).
- Spanish Association of Obesity Surgery (SECO).
- Association of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeons of Geat Britain and Ireland (AUGIS).
- Member of the Section of Obesity Surgery of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC).