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15/04/2024 - General information

Dr. Manuel Pera chosen as new full member of the Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya

His election became effective on April 9. Dr. Pera was already a corresponding academic of the institution since 2022.

The Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya chose, in a plenary session held on April 9, Dr. Manuel Pera as the new full academician of the institution. Dr. Pera, who was already a corresponding academic since 2022, will be attached to the surgery section of the institution.

The section chief of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit of the Hospital del Mar and researcher at the center's Research Institute, thus becomes one of the sixty full academicians of the institution. The election is made by a vote among the members themselves. The ceremony of entry into the Royal Academy will take place in the coming months.

Dr. Manuel Pera

Born in Seville, he is a graduate in Medicine and Surgery, specialist in General and Digestive Surgery and Doctor of Medicine. He is Chief of Section of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Unit of the Hospital del Mar. He has been Professor of Surgery at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2018. He is the author of more than 200 publications and 300 communications in congresses. He has participated in about twenty research projects and has directed 13 doctoral theses. His papers accumulate more than 6,000 citations and have an h-index of 38. Among other awards, he has received the Manuel Corachan Award from the Societat Catalana de Cirurgia and is Honorary Fellow of the European Board of Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

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