Overview
Work History
Education
Publications
Awards
International conferences
Training
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Registration history
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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
Tarragona
09.2018

Urology

FEBU (Fellow of The EBU)
EAU
06.2022

Medicine - External Training

Fundació Puigvert
Barcelona
01.2021

Degree in Medicine - Medicine

Universitat De Barcelona
Hospitalet De Llobregat
06.2015

Bachelor of Science -

Escola Llor
Sant Boi De Llobregat
06.2009

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
Marta Alves SantiagoDoctor