Marta Alves Santiago
Doctor
Melbourne
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Urology Fellow
Austin Hospital
12.2022 - Current
Training programme for Urology fellow:
- Oncology clinics once per week
- Flexible cystocopy list once per week
- MDM and X-ray meeting attendance
- Ward round on Wednesdays
- High complexity surgeries (open and laparoscopic approach)
- Endoscopic surgeries
Urologist
Hospital Joan XXIII
05.2017 - 05.2022
As a final year resident in Urology we perform different tasks:
- Everyday inpatients visits
- Five shifts of Urology per month
- Outpatient consultation (once per week)
- Cystoscopies (once per week)
- Surgery room (three times per week)
As first surgeon:
- Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy: 5
- Open cystectomy: 2
- Robotic prostatectomy: 2 times dissection of seminal vesicles
- Partial robotic nephrectomy: 8 times where I started the surgery until finding the renal vessels
- Open reimplant: 2
- Robotic reimplant: 1
- RIRS and URS: 31
- TURBT: 45
- TURP: 3
- HolEp: 1 (one lobe of the prostate)
- PNL: 3
- Incontinence surgery (TOT): 2
- Orchiectomy: 7
- Penile fracture: 1
- Testicular torsion: 5
- Urinary stent: 35
- Nephrostomy: 12
I have assisted in more than 100 robotic surgeries and more than 50 laparoscopic procedures.
Education
Ph.D. - Prostate Cancer
Student of PhD At Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Tarragona09.2018
Urology
FEBU (Fellow of The EBU)
EAU06.2022
Medicine - External Training
Fundació Puigvert
Barcelona01.2021
Degree in Medicine - Medicine
Universitat De Barcelona
Hospitalet De Llobregat06.2015
Bachelor of Science -
Escola Llor
Sant Boi De Llobregat06.2009
Publications
Ruiz-Plazas X, Rodríguez-Gallego E, Alves M, Altuna-Coy A, Lozano-Bartolomé J, Portero-Otin M, García-Fontgivell JF, Martínez-González S, Segarra J, Chacón MR. Biofluid quantification of TWEAK/Fn14 axis in combination with a selected biomarker panel improves assessment of prostate cancer aggressiveness. J Transl Med. 2019 Sep 9;17(1):307.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31500625/
Ruiz-Plazas X, Altuna-Coy A, Alves-Santiago M, Vila-Barja J, García-Fontgivell JF, Martínez-González S, Segarra-Tomás J, Chacón MR. Liquid Biopsy-Based Exo-oncomiRNAs Can Predict Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness. Cancers (Basel). 2021 Jan 11;13(2):250.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33440913/
Altuna-Coy, A., Ruiz-Plazas, X., Alves-Santiago, M., Segarra-Tomás, J. and Chacón, M., 2021. Serum Levels of the Cytokine TWEAK Are Associated with Metabolic Status in Patients with Prostate Cancer and Modulate Cancer Cell Lipid Metabolism In Vitro. Cancers, 13(18), p.4688
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34572917/
Awards
Rising Stars in Urology XII. Asociación Española de Urología
'03-05/03/21' Granada
International conferences
Attendance to 33rd EAU Congress.
16/03/2018- 20/03/2018. Copenhagen
‘The use of Tweak-Fn14 as a non-invasive biomarker panel for prostate cancer’.
14/11/2019- 17/11/2019. Poster at EMUC. Vienna
Attendance UROmotion PCNL in children. Tips and tricks
11/02/2021 Online
Attendance to 19th European Urology Residents Education Programme
04-08/02/2022. Prague
‘Liquid biopsy based on exo-onco-miRNAs can predict prostate cancer aggressiveness’.
01/06/2022-04/06/2022. EAU 37th congress. Amsterdam
Attendance to USANZ conference.
24-28/02/2023. Melbourne
‘Liquid biopsy based on exo-onco-miRNAs can predict prostate cancer aggressiveness’.
25-28/02/2024. USANZ conference. Adelaide
Training
‘Laparoscopic training in advance surgery. Renal surgery’. Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón (CCMIJU)
20/09/2022-22/09/2022 Cáceres
Languages
Spanish
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
English
Advanced (C1)
Catalan
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Italian
Upper intermediate (B2)
Registration history
Registration in 'Col·legi de Metges de Tarragona (COMT) '. Tarragona
05/2017-05/2022. Number of physician 43 06724
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Approved Oct 2022-August 2023
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Approved August 2023-August 2024
Timeline
Urology Fellow
Austin Hospital
12.2022 - Current
Urologist
Hospital Joan XXIII
05.2017 - 05.2022
Ph.D. - Prostate Cancer
Student of PhD At Universitat Rovira I Virgili
Urology
FEBU (Fellow of The EBU)
Medicine - External Training
Fundació Puigvert
Degree in Medicine - Medicine
Universitat De Barcelona
Bachelor of Science -
Escola Llor