This one-year training program is focused on the acquisition of extensive clinical experience in liver resections, multiple organ extraction and in performing liver transplantation, among others. Moreover, Dr. Pérez will also join the different research programs in the service related to graft viability.
Hospital Clinic de Barcelona has one of the most complete programs in liver transplant surgery in our country. All kind of conventional transplants are carried out, including living and non-heart beating donor liver transplant, the split-liver transplantation and the so called domino liver transplant. Even though, as Dr. García-Valdecasas says "surgeons working nowadays in this field will not stay for much longer, so we need people decided and committed to carry on and ensure generational replacement." Hence the importance of programs like this one headed by Hospital Clínic and Astellas Pharma, in which together with specific aspects of surgical training, "it will include the development of abilities to gradually assume responsibilities and the leadership of working-teams ", highlights Dr. García-Valdecasas.