Miguel A. Cuesta

Dr. Miguel A. Cuesta is currently an Emeritus Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery especially dedicated to Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Vrije University Medical Centre (Vumc) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and received his medical degree from the Universidad de Navarra School of Medicine, Pamplona, Spain. He completed his Surgical Residence at the Vumc in Amsterdam.

In 1988, Dr Cuesta joined the faculty staff at the Vumc where he became Professor and chief of the Gastrointestinal and Minimally Invasive Surgery Unit in 2001. Since 2014 he works in the Reinier de Graaf Hospital in Delft, Netherlands, exclusively dedicated to Upper GI surgery.

Dr. Cuesta’s research focuses on the implementation of Digestive Oncological Diseases in Minimally Invasive Surgery, with a special dedication to Upper Gastrointestinal Oncological Surgery.

He has been Principal Investigator or Co-PI on over 10 funded Control Randomized Trials in which a comparison is made between Open Conventional and Minimally Invasive Approaches, but also investigating the role of neoadjuvant therapy in esophageal and gastric cancer.

He has published over 300 papers, has written over 10 book chapters, and is editor-in-chief of four books about the Minimally Invasive Approach to Digestive Cancer, Upper Gastrointestinal Cancer, and Postoperative Major Complications. Currently, he is editing a book about Minimally Invasive Upper Abdominal Surgery.