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Dr. Víctor Valentí
General and Digestive Surgery Specialist
Codirector of the Obesity Area
Area of Expertise: Obesity Surgery
Professional career
Graduate (2000) and Doctor (2006) in Medicine from the University of Navarra.
He worked as a Clinical Fellow in Gastroesophageal Surgery at Ealing and St Mary ́s Hospital, Imperial College of London, January-December 2007.
He was a Visiting Observer Surgery in the Foregut Department of the University Hospital of Southern California, Los Angeles in June 2008.
He was also a Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Clinical Fellow at Charing Cross Hospital, Imperial College of London, January-February, 2012.
Since 2006, he has worked as a specialist in the General and Digestive Surgery Department at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra.
RESEARCH AREAS
Research Areas:
He has collaborated in 6 research projects.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery.
AREAS OF INTEREST
Obesity and oesophago-gastric surgery.
Activity
As an educator
Surgery Professor at the University of Navarra Faculty of Medicine Research
As a researcher
He has participated in around 100 papers and communications at national and international conferences and has published more than 60 scientific articles.

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.
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).
Latest scientific publications
- Predictors of postoperative complications and readmissions in laparoscopic pancreas resection: Results of a cohort 105 consecutive. Cases. A retrospective study May 2, 2023 | Magazine: Cirugía Española (English Edition)
- Increased Aquaporin-7 Expression Is Associated with Changes in Rat Brown Adipose Tissue Whitening in Obesity: Impact of Cold Exposure and Bariatric Surgery Feb 8, 2023 | Magazine: International Journal of Molecular Sciences