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Santiago González-Moreno
Dr. González-Moreno, born in Segovia, Spain on May 31 1968, is married and has 3 children. He completed his general surgery residency in Hospital Universitario “12 de Octubre” (Madrid). He continued his training in gastrointestinal surgical oncology as a clinical fellow for two years under Dr. Paul H. Sugarbaker at the Washington Cancer Institute in Washington, DC (USA), where he focused in peritoneal surface malignancy. Upon returning to Spain in 2001 he was commissioned to organize the surgical oncology practice at the newly created MD Anderson Cancer Center´s affiliation in Madrid, Spain where he has developed most of his career. Dr. González-Moreno´s areas of research interest include colorectal, appendix and gastric cancer, peritoneal malignancy and intraperitoneal chemotherapy, abdominopelvic sarcomas and education. He has lectured throughout Spain, Europe and South America on cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis, having published articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited books and organized national and international scientific meetings on this topic. He is among the founding members of the Spanish Peritoneal Surgical Oncology Group (GECOP). Among other commitments, he serves as a board member of the Spanish Society of Surgical Oncology since 2004 and as Vicepresident of the Spanish Federation of Oncological Societies since 2008. He joined the Executive Committee of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in 2008. His present focus of research is in peritoneal carcinomatosis of gastric origin.
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Dr. González-Moreno is an attending surgical oncologist at Centro Oncológico MD Anderson International España in Madrid, Spain, where he is in charge of the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Program and a member of the Education and Pharmacy Committees.