Dra. Ana Otero Piñeiro
Lenguages: Spanish | Catalan | English | Galician
CURRENT POSITION
· Senior Specialist of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Service of the Clínic Barcelona
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ACADEMINC TRAINING
· Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 2007
· Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery, Hospital Germans Trias, 2013
· Research Fellow in the Colorectal Surgery unit of the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)
EXPERIENCE
· More than 10 years of experience
· More than 1000 interventions in gastrointestinal surgery
· Extensive experience in robotic colorectal surgery as first female surgeon
Specialization
· Minimally Invasive Surgery
· Robotic and laparoscopic surgery
· Transanal approach using the TaTME technique for colorectal cancer
RESEARCH
· Doctoral thesis: Usefulness of indocyanine green angiography for prevention of anastomotic leakage in colorectal surgery. Director: JM Balibrea, AM Lacy. Rating: Outstanding Cum Laude. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018
· More than 40 publications (several as first author in journals with high IF)
· 10 book chapters
· Reviewer of scientific journals