Head, Breast Surgical Oncology
Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Isabel T. Rubio is the Head of Breast Surgical Oncology at Clinica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, Spain and Professor of Surgery at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. She completed her Medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine in Salamanca, Spain, and become a Board certified General Surgeon. She had additional training for two years as a Breast Surgical Oncology Fellow at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Cancer Center at Little Rock, USA and at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA. She completed her PhD in 2000 on “Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer ”. She is the director of the Breast Surgery Fellowship program at her Institution.
Dr. Rubio is founding member and past President of the Spanish Association of Breast Surgeons (AECIMA), EUSOMA President (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists), ESSO (European Society of Surgical Oncology) President, member of AsBS and in 2017 member of the Outreach Committee of SSO, She is breast section editor of the JSO, reviewer for The Breast, and EJSO. She obtained the European Board of Surgery Qualification in Breast Surgery and since 2015 is officer at the UEMS Breast Surgery Division and examiner in the EBSQ Examinations in Breast Surgery.
Dr. Rubio is involved as part of the Steering and Executive Committees in several international, multicenter randomized trials. She has received grants to develop her research by the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Health and other institutions. Dr. Rubio has published over 130 national and international peer review manuscripts and book chapters.
Her interest is in sentinel lymph node biopsy, neoadjuvant treatments, surgical management of BRCA mutation carriers and the role of prognostic markers (genomic profiles, liquid biopsy) along with the standardization of Breast surgical training and Breast units.
Friday, March 24, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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