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Isabel T. Rubio, MD, PhD

Head, Breast Surgical Oncology
Clinica Universidad de Navarra, Madrid
Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Isabel T. Rubio is the Head of Breast Surgical Oncology and Clinical Director of the Breast Cancer Center at Clinica Universidad de Navarra in Madrid, Spain, and Professor of Surgery at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. She completed her Medical degree at the Faculty of Medicine in Salamanca, Spain, and became a board-certified General Surgeon. She had additional training for two years as a Breast Surgical Oncology Fellow at The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas Cancer Center at Little Rock, USA, and at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, USA. She completed her PhD in 2000 on “Sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer ”. She is the director of the Breast Surgery Fellowship program at her Institution.
Dr. Rubio is the President of the European Cancer Organization (ECO), immediate past president of ESSO (European Society of Surgical Oncology) President, founding member and past President of the Spanish Association of Breast Surgeons (AECIMA), EUSOMA past- President (European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists), and past member of the Outreach Committee of SSO, She is the breast section editor of the JSO, a reviewer for The Breast, and EJSO. She obtained the European Board of Surgery Qualification in Breast Surgery and, since 2015 has been an officer at the UEMS Breast Surgery Division and an examiner in the EBSQ Examinations in Breast Surgery.
Dr. Rubio is involved as part of the Steering and Executive Committees in several international, multicenter randomized trials. She has received grants to develop her research from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Spanish Ministry of Health, and other institutions. Dr. Rubio has published over 190 national and international peer review manuscripts and book chapters.
She has been awarded as an Honorary member of the American Surgical Association, an Honorary member of ESTRO, and several awards from national and international foundations.

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