Carlos Sala, MD PhD

Dr. Carlos Sala Curriculum Vitae and professional experience Educational background Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Valencia, in 1990 Specialist in General Surgery and Gastroenterology, University of Valencia, in 1995, Specialty Residency Programm at the Clinic University Hospital of Valencia 1990-1995. Medical Doctor degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Valencia in 2001 with cum laude PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY Medical Resident of General Surgery and Gastroenterology, Clinic University Hospital of Valencia 1991-1995. Medical Surgery, Endocrine Surgery Unit and Obesity University Hospital of Valencia, from 1996 to 2012. Endocrine-metabolic unit Surgery Hospital La Fe in Valencia - Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery from 2012 to the present. Director of theMetabolic and Obesity Surgery Unit and Endocrine Surgery at the Quirónsalud Hospital of Valencia. Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia from 1996 to 2016. SURGICAL ACTIVITY Surgical experience in more than 4,000 surgeries with General anesthesia in all fields of the Specialty: Scheduled and Emergency Surgery in General and Digestive Diseases (Abdominal Wall, esophagus and stomach, Hepatobiliopancreatic Surgery, Oncological Surgery and Peritoneal carcinomatosis and Colorectal Surgery). Since 20 years ago, almost exclusively dedicated to the Endocrine and Obesity Surgery with surgical experience in more than 1,500 Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery procedures, more than 1,000 thyroidectomies, 150 parathyroidectomies and 80 laparoscopic adrenalectomies. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY Author of more than 30 scientific original articles in national and international journals of surgery and especially about Obesity Surgery. Author of more than 80 papers , oral presentations and lectures in national and international Meetings of Surgery and Obesity Surgery. Visiting Doctor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) in 1995. Grants from the International Menéndez Pelayo University, the Spanish Association of Surgeons and the Spanish Society of Digestive Pathology for training in foreign hospitals and lectures presented in International Surgical Meetings. Winner of the 1995 Valencia Society of Surgery Award for the best originalpublication on clinical research, the National Award of the Spanish Association of Surgeons for the best original publication in 1998, and the Award of the Valencia Society of Surgery for the best Research publication in January of 1998. Visiting Professor at the BARIATRIC and Metabolic Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Weston (Florida), Prof. Raul Rosenthal (President of ASBMs) during 2015. Organizer of the Johnson&Johnson EXPERT MEETING on Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery EMEA 2016 European Middle East and Africa EXPERT MEETING 2016 in Valencia and 2017 in Madrid. EMEA Faculty Johnson&Johnson. Active member of the ASOCIACION ESPAÑOLA DE CIRUJANOS -AEC, Section of Endocrine and Obesity Surgery, SOCIEDAD VALENCIANA DE CIRUGÍA - SVC, SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA DE CIRUGIA DE LA OBESIDAD Y ENFERMEDADES METABÓLICAS - SECO, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR SURGERY OF THE OBESITY AND RELATED DISEASES - IFSO, and AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METABOLIC AND BARIATRIC SURGERY - ASMBS. LANGUAGES SPOKEN Academic and Scientific English correctly spoken and written.