Antonio Alcaraz Asensio

Dr. Antonio Alcaraz Asensio received his medical degree in 1983 and completed his doctoral thesis in 1987, both at the University of Barcelona. In 1988, he obtained the specialty of Urology after 5 years of residency in the UrologyDepartment of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. A one-year period as Research Fellow was followed by a second 18 month term (1993-1994) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Department of Urology, and then the Hospital Clinic,until 2001. He has also been head of the Renal Transplant Surgical Unit andClinical Chief of Urology Service of the Fundació Puigvert.

Since February 2005, he has served as Chief of Urology, and is also currently theProfessor of Urology at the University of Barcelona. He has been coordinator of the National Lung Transplant Group of the Spanish Association of Urology (2004-2008) and is currently Secretary General of the Spanish Association of Urology.