Teacher Dr. Javier Gallego

• Lung Cancer Surgery. Lobectomy and complete lymph node dissection by single port video-thoracoscopy. Pioneer team in Portugal in the minimally invasive approach of Single Door (2012)
• Video Thoracoscopy Procedures / Single Port: > 90%
• Chest surgery without oro-tracheal intubation, Awake lobectomy. Tubeless technique. Pioneer team in Portugal (2015), with Dr Diego González -Rivas
• Video-assisted single port pneumonectomy in lung cancer
• Pneumothorax Surgery. Pioneer team in Portugal in the minimally invasive approach by video-thoracoscopy with pulmonary collapse with CO2 and simple tube (2014). Experience published in the International JOVS magazine in 2017. (See Publications)
• Surgery of Chest Wall Deformities, Correction of Pectus excavatum Endoscopic Nuss technique
• Surgery of Thoracic Injuries. Implantation of titanium plates
• ETS, Video-assisted bilateral upper thoracic sympathectomy for the treatment of primary hyperhidrosis
• ETS-C Video-assisted bilateral upper thoracic sympathectomy for the treatment of primary hyperhidrosis using titanium clips. Pioneer team in Portugal

• Professor of the “5th Experimental Course in Thoracic Surgery VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)”, (November 24 and 25, 2016) “Jesús Usón” Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Cáceres, Spain
• Director of “Clinical Inmersion Uniportal VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)” (July 21st and 22nd, 2016), Hospital Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon
• Professor of the “3rd International Uniportal VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery) Course – Live Surgery and Wetlab. Uniportal VATS: from basics to advanced surgery”. 16 — 18 March 2016, Berlin, Germany
• Director of the “1st International Meeting of Minimally Invasive Techniques in Cardiac Surgery” (February 19, 2016), Hospital Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon
• Director of “Clinical Inmersion Uniportal VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)” (28 and 29 February 2016), Hospital Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon
• Director of “Clinical Inmersion Uniportal VATS (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)” (3 and 4 September 2015), Hospital Santa Maria, CHLN, Lisbon
• Professor of the “IV Experimental Course in VATS Surgery (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)”, (January 21 and 22, 2016) “Jesús Usón” Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Cáceres, Spain
• Professor of the “III Experimental Course in VATS Surgery (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)”, (22nd and 23rd of January 2015) “Jesús Usón” Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Cáceres, Spain
• Professor of the “II Experimental Course in VATS Surgery (Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery)”, (20 and 21 of January 2014) Center for Minimal Invasion Surgery “Jesús Usón”, Cáceres, Spain

• “Manuel Eugénio Machado Macedo” award for the work “GLOBAL EXPERIENCE AND ACTUAL RESULTS OF HEART TRANSPLANTATION” presented at the X International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery in 2004. Best Oral Communication of the International Congress. Work published in SPCCTV magazine, as first author
• “Excellence in design” award for the Poster “ACUTE AORTIC DISSECTION: CT, SURGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CORRELATION ACCORDING TO THE FORM OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE AORTIC WALL. Presented at RSNA, Chicago, USA, Nov, 2006. (Co-Author)
• “Manuel Eugénio Machado Macedo” award for the work “Free Wall Rupture of the Left ventricle. Department experience” at the XVth International Congress of the Portuguese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery in 2010. Best Oral Communication of the International Congress. Work published in SPCCTV magazine, as first author
• “Manuel Eugénio Machado Macedo” award for the work IMPACT OF “PATIENT PROSTHESIS MISMATCH” ON PATIENTS UNDERGOING AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT at the XIII Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. Best Oral Communication of the Congress. (Co-author)

• Official Cross of the Order of Isabel la Católica, by His Majesty El Rey Don Juan Carlos I of Borbón on June 11, 2010. Palace of Palhavã, Lisbon. Awarded for the Professional work as a doctor in Portugal and for the creation of the REDSEP Association, Network of Spanish Doctors in Portugal to provide health care to the Spanish community residing in Portuguese territory
• PhD, International Doctor of Medicine, at the Miguel Hernández University, UMH, Elche, Spain and the University of Lisbon, UL, Portugal
• Rating: CUM LAUDE
• FETCS, Fellow European Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery
• FACS, Fellow American College of Surgery
• FESC, Fellow European Society of Cardiology

• Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery
• Video-Assisted Single Port Surgery
• Lung cancer treatment
• Minimally Invasive Surgery for Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Repair
• Heart tumors
• Cardio-oncology
• Structural interventional cardiology. TAVI, MitraClip®
• Aortic surgery
• Endoscopic Pectus Excavatum Surgery. Nuss technique
• ETS, Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy. Treatment of Hyperhidrosis
• Robotic surgery
• Academic interests

Javier G. Povedaa, Gustavo L. Silvab,*, Pedro C. Silvab and Ângelo Nobrea
a Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
b Department of Cardiology, Santa Maria University Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery Advance Access published September 27, 2016
Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (2016) 1–3 CASE REPORT doi:10.1093/icvts/ivw253

Javier Gallego-Poveda, Nuno Carvalho Guerra, Diego Gonzalez-Rivas, Catarina Carvalheiro, Hugo Ferreira, André Sena, Nádia Junqueira, Tiago Rodrigues Velho, Ângelo Nobre
Submitted Nov 17, 2016. Accepted for publication Feb 01, 2017. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.02.07
View this article at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2017.02.07
Journal of Visualized Surgery (ISSN 2221-2965; J Vis Surg; JOVS; http://jovs.amegroups.com)

Javier Gallego-Poveda, Nuno Carvalho Guerra, Catarina Carvalheiro, Hugo Ferreira, André Sena, Nádia Junqueira, Tiago Velho, Ângelo Nobre
Submitted Nov 17, 2016. Accepted for publication Dec 09, 2016. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.01.53
View this article at: http://dx.doi.org/10.21037/jtd.2017.01.53
Journal of Visualized Surgery (ISSN 2221-2965; J Vis Surg; JOVS; http://jovs.amegroups.com)

Javier Gallego, A. Nobre, R. A. Pereira, S. Mendes, G. Do Carmo, L.M. Pedro, D.Gama, J. Cravino
Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Service. Santa Maria Hospital
Published in the Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. April to June 2004; 11(2):67-70.

Javier Gallego, J. Cruz, S. Mendes, J. Caldeira, A. Nobre, J, Cravino
Cardiothoracic Surgery Service. Santa Maria Hospital. Lisbon
Published in the Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. April to June 2005; 12(2):73-8

Javier Gallego, J. Cruz, S. Mendes, J. Caldeira, A. Nobre, J, Cravino
Cardiothoracic Surgery Service. Santa Maria Hospital. Lisbon
Rev Port Cir Cardiotorac Vasc. 2005 Oct-Dec;12(4):215-9

Gallego J, Valera F, Margarit JA, Pérez M, Castelló A, Matas D, Torregrosa S, Maroñas J, Serrano F, Monteiro A.
Rev Port Cir Cardiotorac Vasc. 2007 Jan-Mar;14(1):15-9. Portuguese.
PMID: 17530060
Cardiothoracic Surgery Service; Santa Maria Hospital. Lisbon. Cardiovascular Surgery Service; La Fe University Hospital. Valencia.
Published in the Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardio-Thoracic and Vascular Surgery. Volume XIV – Nº 1 Janeiro – Março 2007; 15-19

Javier Gallego, S. Mendes, J. Roque, R. A. Pereira, M. Mendes, A. Lemos, A. Nobre, João Cravino. Cardiothoracic Surgery Service. Santa Maria Hospital
Published in the Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery. Volume XIV – Nº 2 April – June 2007; 79-82

Children’s Hospital LA FE. Valencia. Children’s Hospital San Juan de Dios. Barcelona
Javier Gallego, F. Serrano, J.M. Gómez-Ullate, José Caffarena
Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology

Javier Gallego, R. Ferreira, J. Roque, N. Guerra, C. Serpa, S. Mendes, M. Mendes, R. Lucero, A. Lemos, R. A-Pereira, A. Nobre, J. Cravino
Article Published in the Portuguese Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Volume XV – No. 4 2008; P.195-199;
– Epicardial Angiolipoma. A very rare tumor with a new surgical approach
Gallego J; Ferreira, R; Alves, A; Matos, A; Guerra, N; Carvalheiro, C; Ferreira, D; Sena, A; Junqueiro, N; Roque, J; Lemos, A; Nobre A.
Department of cardiothoracic surgery of Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon

Article under review to submit for publication
Javier Gallego, Carina Ferreira, R. Ferreira, A. Alves, A. Matos, A. Nobre

Article of the results of the doctoral thesis
Today the article is still not finished
It will be sent next month to the international magazine:
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EUR J CARDIO-THORAC)

• Calretinin as an immunohistochemical marker in the differential diagnosis of myxomas
• Clinical results of the minimally invasive approach in the resection of left atrial myxomas