Dr. Andrés Cárdenas Vasquez
LANGUAGES: Spanish | Catalan | English
CURRENT POSITION
- Consultant - Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
- Associate Professor of Medicine at Universitat de Barcelona
- Distinguished Fellow - American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (FAASLD)
- Distinguished Fellow - American Gastroenterological Association (AGAF)
- Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Editor In Chief - Liver Transplantation Journal
- Professor and Researcher Accredited by the Agència Catalana de la Qualitat i Acreditació Universitària, Barcelona
- President of the International Association for the Study of Liver Disease (IASL)
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- Bachelor in Medicine, 1993 Universidad CES
- Residency in Internal Medicine, 1995-1998 Boston University Medical Center
- Research Fellow - Hepatology 1998-2000. Hospital Clínic. Universitat de Barcelona
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology - 2000-2003 Harvard Medical School
- Advanced Hepatology & Liver Transplantation - 2003-2004 Harvard Medical School
- Therapeutic Endoscopy- 2003-2004 Harvard Medical School
- Masters in Clinical Investigation (MMSc) - 2001-2003. Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Program in Health Sciences and Technology
- Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology by the American Board of Internal Medicine - 2002-2004-2014
- Doctor of Medicine (PhD) - 2015, Universitat de Barcelona
EXPERIENCE
- More than 25 years of experience
- Full Medical License- Spain & Massachusetts (USA)
Specialities
· Gastroenterology and Hepatology
· Liver Elastography- FIBROSCAN
· Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERCP) and cholangioscopy
· Advanced diagnostic (gastroscopy and colonoscopy) and interventional endoscopy
Areas of interest
· Liver and biliary diseases
· Liver cirrhosis and its complications
· Fatty liver disease
· Non-invasive endoscopy procedures in patients with liver disease
· Interventional endoscopy procedures in patients with liver and biliary disease
· Portal hypertension
· Biliary complications after liver transplantation
Success rates
- More than 2000 procedures performed per year. Success in >95% (last 5 years)
- Complications in less than 0.1% of cases in gastroscopy and colonoscopy. And less than 5% in ERCP & interventional endoscopy
RESEARCH
- Over 200 articles in indexed journals, 85 book chapters
- Total citations of 11,900, with an H-index of 48 and a Research Interest Score of 5.74. View the ResearchGate profile.
- Author and editor of 4 academic books
- Invited speaker at more than 180 conferences at national and international congresses
- Supervisor of 4 doctoral theses
- Ongoing funding for research projects obtained through public and private calls for proposals
- Accredited researcher Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS).
- Accredited researcher - Network Biomedical Research Center for Liver and Digestive Diseases (CIBEREHD)
- Editorial Board Member of more than 10 Indexed Medical Journals