University of Barcelona
Maria J. Ribal MD, PhD: Head of uro-Oncology Unit. Hospital Clinic. Univerisity of Barcelona. Chair of the EAU Guidelines Office.
Medical degree in 1994, followed by PhD in 2002, both at the University of Barcelona. Specialist in Urology in 1999 after 5 years residency at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. REsearch Fellowship with an Investigation Grant at the Hospital Clinic in 2000-2001.
Visiting Clinician at Mayo Clinic in Rochester (USA) in 2002. Fellow in Laparoscopic Surgery at the University College London Hospital (UCLH) from June till December 2006.
Member of the Oncology Unit of the Department of Urology at Fundacio Puigvert (2002-2005).
Since February 2005, member of the Department of Urology at the Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona.
Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Barcelona from 2005 till present.
From December 2011 Head of the Multidisciplinary Unit of Uro- Oncology at Hospital Clinic.
President of Societat Catalana de Urologia from April 2018 till Nov 2022
Main interests include urologic oncology, major oncologic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and transplantation and genetic research of urological tumors.
Member of the Muscle-Invasive and Metastatic Bladder Cancer Guidelines Group of the European Association of Urology (EAU) 2006-2020. Board member of the EUSP Office of the European Association of Urology since April 2012 till March 2020.
Chair of the Dissemination Committee of the EAU Guidelines of the European Association of Urology from 2016-2021. Board member of EAU Guidelines office since January 2016. Vice-chair of the EAU Guidelines Office since 2019. Chair of the EAU Guidelines Office from July 2021.
In 2009, during the EAU Annual Meeting held in Stockholm, received the Crystal Matula award. (The EAU Crystal Matula Award is the most prestigious prize given to a young promising European urologist)
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