Dr. Salvadora Delgado

Head, General and Digestive Surgery Department, Mútua Terrassa University Hospital, Spain Bariatric Surgery
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Dr. Salvadora Delgado completed her MIR training (1994-1998) and developed her professional career as a Gastrointestinal Surgeon at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Since 2016, she has served as the Head of Service at HUMT, and since 2020, she has combined this role with the position of Director of the Surgical Care Department at HUMT.

She earned her Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (UB) in 2001 and was later awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in 2013. Since 2012, she has also been an associate professor at UB.

From the beginning of her professional career, Dr. Delgado has focused on advanced laparoscopic surgery, actively participating in the development of innovative surgical techniques for all digestive procedures (both upper and lower gastrointestinal tract), with a special interest in colorectal and bariatric surgery. Throughout her career, she has also performed surgeries in other general surgical areas, including biliary tract pathology, abdominal wall surgery, and splenectomies.

In the research field, Dr. Delgado has been an invited speaker at over 200 national and international conferences and has collaborated in organizing multiple courses and congresses. 

She is a member of various surgical scientific societies and has served on the executive boards of some of them.