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Gonzalo RodrÍguez LaizHospital General Universitario de AlicanteSpain
- Dr. Rodríguez Laiz is a Board Certified Transplant Surgeon (FEBS-European Board of Surgery) work-ing in Alicante, Spain. He graduated from the University of Granada Medical School, in Spain, and moved to the USA where he started his residency in Pathology at UMDNJ in Newark, NJ. After two years of training and having met his AP requirements, he decided to pursue his career in General Surgery, joining the Surgical Residency Training Program at the same institution, where he became Instructor in Surgery in 1996, and Chief Resident in 1997. He then did his Abdominal Organ Trans-plantation Clinical Fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City starting in 1998. During his training at Mount Sinai, he was bestowed the Physician of the Year Award in 1999. He graduated from the program on June, 2000, and went back to Spain, where he established and headed for two years a Liver Surgery Unit at Salamanca University Hospital. He then moved to Bar-celona to become a member of the Liver Transplant team at the Clinic Hospital for another two years. After four years from his departure, he decided to return to Mount Sinai in the summer of 2004 joining full-time as Assistant Professor of Surgery. As a Transplant Surgeon, Dr. Rodríguez Laiz performed cadaveric and living donor liver and kidney transplantation, as well as cadaveric pan-creas, intestinal and multi visceral transplantation, becoming first acting and then associate Direc-tor of the Intestinal Transplantation program at Mount Sinai. After seven years of practice in New York, he moved back to Spain to establish and lead a new liver transplant program in Alicante, where he designed and developed a Fast-Track Liver Transplant protocol and brought the program forward to become a beacon on Fast-Tracking in Liver Transplantation
