Gaspar Mestres MD, PhD, FEBVS

Gaspar Mestres, MD, PhD, FEBVS, is a vascular surgeon of the Vascular Surgery Division, Cardiovascular Surgery Department – Cardiovascular Institute. Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Gaspar Mestres received his MD from the University of Barcelona in 2003, completed the internship and residency in Angiology and Vascular Surgery in Valld’Hebron University Hospital (Autonomous University of Barcelona) in 2009, obtained the in 2010 in the same university in endovascular aortic surgery research, and achieved the FEBVS in 2011. He is a staff member of the Vascular Surgery Division in the HospitalClinic (Barcelona, Spain) since 2009, a surgeon in charge of the Vascular Access Unit of the Hospital Clinic (regional reference center in vascular access creation and maintenance), and Clinical Professor of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Barcelona) since 2011. His current research focuses mainly on vascular access surgery (access creation and follow-up, pre and intraoperative ultrasound assessment, chronic vascular access flow measurements and dysfunction detection, early postoperative vascular access thrombosis, imaging study of vascular access anastomosis, and new devices in vascular access) and endovascular aortic surgery. In this field, research is focused on populational studies of AAA repair performance, the late performance of aortic endograft, uncommon complications of endograft, its applications in uncommon diseases or in off-label conditions, and in-Vitro performance of endografts in off-label indications, as parallel stent technique