TED Community » Julio Mayol

About Me

MD and PhD with honors from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Surgery training at Hospital Clinico San Carlos. Research Fellow in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Hospital. Visiting Scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, University of Minnesota Cancer Center and University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Visiting Professor of Surgery at Department of Surgery, Wayne State University. Director, Minimally Invasive and Image Guided Surgery Unit, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid. Associate Professor of Surgery, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Director of the Epithelial Biology Lab at Hospital Clinico San Carlos. Five research grants, five fellowships, several chapter in books and numerous scientific papers in journals. Expert for the European Medicine Agengy (EMEA) on cell therapy. Blogger

Location:: Spain, Madrid
Current organization:: Hospital Clinico San Carlos
Past organizations:: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Current role:: Surgeon
Gender:: Male
Areas of expertise:: Surgery, Clinical research, Gastrointestinal physiology, robotics, Surgical imaging

I am:: Blogger, Brainstormer, Doctor, Educator/Teacher, Idea generator, Parent, Scientist, Technologist, Writer/Editor
Associations:: American Gastroenterological Association, Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract
Languages:: Spanish, English
My website links:: Panorama desde el Puente
Universities:: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Harvard, Wayne State University

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More About Me

I'm passionate about

surgical robotics, surgical imaging, innovative thinking, intellectual risk taking, story telling, literature

An idea worth spreading

The paradigm of invading the body, causing additional damage, to perform surgical procedures and destroy internal lesions can be changed.

Talk to me about

psychology, spatial orientation, surgery, imaging, surgical robotics,. literature...and almost every other thing

People don't know that I'm good at

writing fiction (novels)

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A comment on Talk: Catherine Mohr: Surgery's past, present and robotic future

Jun 18 2009: As a "Da Vinci" console surgeon, I can tell you that the platform is not always as cool as it seems. As Dr. Mohr mentioned, the robot is not versitile. The future is SMALL ROBOTS for specific tasks.
A comment on Talk: Benjamin Wallace: The price of happiness

Jan 1 2009: As Dan Gilbert put it, real happiness may have a price tag, but sinthetic happiness is for free

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