Alcaraz Asensio, Antonio
Head of the Urology and Renal Transplant Department at Barcelona's Clinical Hospital
Experience
Pioneer and world reference in the approach of laparoscopic surgery, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery and 3D surgery and introducer of robotic kidney transplantation in Europe. This is how Dr. Antonio Alcaraz Asensio, an international reference surgeon specialized in Uro-Oncological Surgery and Renal Transplantation, has been consecrated.
His Research Group is responsible for pioneering interventions such as complete kidney transplantation via the vagina or through the navel, an achievement that brings together not only aesthetic benefits, but also in the postoperative period and in the manifestation of side effects.
Likewise, during his prestigious professional experience, Dr. Antonio Alcaraz Asensio has traveled all over the world as a speaker at many prestigious scientific meetings. In fact, he has become a reference for some of the main companies in the medical and pharmaceutical industry and a predecessor of what is already considered the surgery of the future.
- Senior Consultant in Urology and Renal Transplantation at Barnaclinic+
- Head of the Transplant and Oncology Unit of the Urology Department of the Puigvert Foundation
- Director of the Renal Transplantation Office of the American Confederation of Urology
- President of the Transplant Section of the Spanish Urology Association
- Leader of the Urological Tumors and Genetics Research Group at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS)
- Author of more than 100 international and national publications
- International speaker at many prestigious scientific meetings
- Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia
- Professor of Urology in the Department of Surgery at the University of Barcelona
- Member of:
- American Confederation of Urology
- Spanish Association of Urology
- Board of the European School of Urology
- Scientific Committee of the European Association of Urology