Dr. Nicolas Garcia, Medical Director of the University of Navarra Clinic

he Dr. Nicholas Garcia, director of medical care at Clínica Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, has been appointed by the university’s president, María Iráburu, as medical director of the clinic. Dr. García, who specializes in internal medicine, replaces Dr. Jesús San Miguel, now senior consultant at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra Cancer Centre, in coordinating the two hospital sites.

A graduate and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Navarra, Dr. García (Pamplona, 1963) specializes in internal medicine at the clinic. He has devoted himself particularly to infectious diseases and fibromyalgia, and teaches at the Faculty of Medicine.

He has also served as Deputy Medical Director (2003-2008) and Medical Director (2008-2013) at Clínica Universidad de Navarra, as well as Chair of the Infectious Diseases, Quality and Teaching Committees.

For his part, he said: Dr. Victor Valenti (Pamplona, 1976), specialist in general and gastrointestinal surgery, replaces Dr. Nicolas Garcia as Director of Medical Care at the Pamplona Clinic.

Dr. Valenti obtained his degree and MD from the University of Navarra and completed his training in London as a clinical fellow, in esophageal and gastric surgery at Imperial College and in bariatric and metabolic surgery at Charing Cross Hospital. the doctor.

Valente is also co-director of the Obesity Department at the hospital, professor at the Faculty of Medicine and various training courses for specialists in minimally invasive surgery, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Society of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery.