Eduardo María Targarona Soler MD, PhD, FACS

Eduardo María Targarona, professor at the Department of Surgery of the UAB and director of the Gastrointestinal and Hematologic Surgery Unit of the Santa Creu i Sant Pau Hospital, has been elected as the new president of the Spanish Association of Surgeons. Targarona graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the UB (1973-1979) and specialized in general and digestive surgery at the Clinical Hospital. Upon receiving his doctorate in medicine, he obtained the extraordinary doctorate prize in 1988. He has made stays at the Paul Brousse Hospital in Paris, the Hammersmith Hospital in London and the Ninewells Hospital in Dundee (United Kingdom). He is editor of the book Endoscopic Surgery (Arán Editores) and coeditor of Minimally Invasive Therapeutics and new technologies in general and digestive surgery (Editorial Masson). Targarona has been section chief of General and Laparoscopic Surgery at the Hospital de la Santa Cruz and Sant Pau. Before chairing the Association, he has been coordinator of the Endoscopic Surgery Section. The Spanish Association of Surgeons was founded in 1935. It has around 3,000 members and groups most of the Spanish surgeons. Among other publications, he publishes the journals Cirugía Española and Clinical Cases of General Surgery .