Dr. Alberto Forteza Gil

I am Dr. Alberto Forteza. I completed my medical studies at the University of Salamanca, where I graduated cum laude with a degree in coronary surgery without extracorporeal circulation. I completed my music studies at the Salamanca Conservatory and later completed my specialty in cardiovascular surgery at the 12 de Octubre University Hospital. I completed my training at centers of excellence in the specialty: Toronto General Hospital, Hannover Medical School and Mayo Clinic Minnesota. My areas of interest are aortic and valve repair surgery, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy surgery and coronary surgery, having one of the largest series in the world in some of them.

I served as Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Puerta de Hierro University Hospital from 2015 to 2024, during which time I led one of the most prestigious transplant programs in Spain. I was a Professor of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid and currently teach at the European University. I was President of the Aortic and Valvular Heart Disease Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology from 2022 to 2024. Since 2006, I have been Head of the Cardiac Surgery Department at Quirónsalud Madrid Hospital and La Luz University Hospital.

I am a member of several scientific societies, including the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons (2021). One of my specialties is Marfan Syndrome, having been director of the first Marfan Unit in our country and actively collaborating with the main national and European research centers on this disease.

I am the author of more than 100 indexed publications, principal investigator in 6 funded research projects, 5 of them public, and principal investigator of three multicenter international research projects. I have also participated in 14 research projects, I am the author of 118 presentations at national congresses, 133 national conferences, 22 international conferences and 25 presentations at international congresses. I have directed six national courses and three international courses on aortic valve repair surgery.