Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires
Chairman Surgical Service & Liver Transplant Unit
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Biographical Sketch (Eduardo de Santibañes)
Born on June 2nd, 1951
Graduated from the University of La Plata (UNLP) in 1974 being his overall grade average 9.27.
Obtained his Doctor’s Degree in Medicine (MD) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 1987.
Full Professor of Surgery at University of Buenos Aires (UBA, 2005-2013) and Full Professor and Head of, the Surgery Department (University School of Medicine, Hospital Italiano, 2008-2012).
He has been Chief of the General Surgery Service since 2005. The General Surgery Service is the most active of Latin America, having performed over 7,400 procedures in 2012. He is an active former of Residents and Fellows, training surgeons from Agentina and from other countries.
He has been Chief of the Liver Transplant Unit of the Hospital Italiano since 1985, where over 1,000 liver transplants have been performed so far.
In 1988 together with his team he performed the first liver transplant in an adult and two months later the first liver transplant in a one-year-old child. In 1991 performed the first liver transplant with a living related donor in a one-year-old girl.
He is an active Clinical Researcher and has published more than 170 articles in several national and international journals, more than 52 book chapters and more than 150 Investigation Abstracts.
In 2010 he was Chairman of the World Congress of the Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association; he was Chairman of the Argentine Academy of Surgery, Argentine Asociation of Surgery, Argentine Liver Transplant Society and the Argentine Chapter of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association.
He is Honorary Member of the American Surgical Association, German Surgical Society, European Surgical Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Peruvian Society of Surgery, the Brazilian Digestive Surgery Society and the Ecuadorian Society of Surgery.
Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina; for the section department Tocoginecologia and surgical specialties; Sitial ° 14 “Eliseo Canton”.
He received numerous Awards and Honors.
This year he was acknowledged as the “Best Surgeon” of the last decade receiving the “KONEX”, one of the most important awards given in Argentina. In 2013, he was also honored with the “KONEX PLATINO”
for “Maximum Discipline in Surgery”.
Full Member of “Academia National de Medicina”
Born on June 2nd, 1951
Graduated from the University of La Plata (UNLP) in 1974 being his overall grade average 9.27.
Obtained his Doctor’s Degree in Medicine (MD) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in 1987.
Full Professor of Surgery at University of Buenos Aires (UBA, 2005-2013) and Full Professor and Head of, the Surgery Department (University School of Medicine, Hospital Italiano, 2008-2012).
He has been Chief of the General Surgery Service since 2005. The General Surgery Service is the most active of Latin America, having performed over 7,400 procedures in 2012. He is an active former of Residents and Fellows, training surgeons from Agentina and from other countries.
He has been Chief of the Liver Transplant Unit of the Hospital Italiano since 1985, where over 1,000 liver transplants have been performed so far.
In 1988 together with his team he performed the first liver transplant in an adult and two months later the first liver transplant in a one-year-old child. In 1991 performed the first liver transplant with a living related donor in a one-year-old girl.
He is an active Clinical Researcher and has published more than 170 articles in several national and international journals, more than 52 book chapters and more than 150 Investigation Abstracts.
In 2010 he was Chairman of the World Congress of the Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association; he was Chairman of the Argentine Academy of Surgery, Argentine Asociation of Surgery, Argentine Liver Transplant Society and the Argentine Chapter of the International Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association.
He is Honorary Member of the American Surgical Association, German Surgical Society, European Surgical Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the Peruvian Society of Surgery, the Brazilian Digestive Surgery Society and the Ecuadorian Society of Surgery.
Full Member of the Academia Nacional de Medicina; for the section department Tocoginecologia and surgical specialties; Sitial ° 14 “Eliseo Canton”.
He received numerous Awards and Honors.
This year he was acknowledged as the “Best Surgeon” of the last decade receiving the “KONEX”, one of the most important awards given in Argentina. In 2013, he was also honored with the “KONEX PLATINO”
for “Maximum Discipline in Surgery”.
Full Member of “Academia National de Medicina”
