Professional Experience Dr. Luca de Tena

Curriculum Vitae

Registration Number: 282821105. Medical Association of Madrid

1969 - 1975. Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (BM, BCh) awarded by Universidad de Zaragoza.

1976 - 1979. Residency within the Digestive Medicine Department at Hospital Gregorio Marańón, under the expert supervision of Clinical Medicine Professor, Rafael Alcala-Santaella.

1979 - 1979. Specialist Degree in Digestive Endoscopy and Interventional Endoscopy, upon the completion of a course by Dr. Demetrio Castellanos Franco, Chief Clinical Officer of the Digestive Endoscopy Section at Hospital Gregorio Marańón

1979 - 1980. Specialist Degree in Gastroenterology awarded by Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

1986 - 1986. Attending physician within the Digestive Medicine Department at Hospital La Paz.

1987 - 1987. Specialist Degree in Abdominal Ultrasound, upon the completion of a course by Dr. Segura Cabral, Chief Clinical Officer of the Abdominal Ultrasound Section of the Digestive Medicine Department at Hospital La Paz.

1987 - 2015- Attending physician within the GI Bleeding Unit at Hospital La Paz, practising interventional endoscopy (bands, sclerosis, polypectomy, etc.).

2010 - Present date. Head of CMED Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit, along with Dr. Guerra Flecha. 

Courses and Lectures

- Ongoing training course by -Sociedad Espańola de Patología Digestiva (Spanish Association of Digestive Pathology). 

- Curso de Fisiopatología Digestiva en el Hospital La Fe de Valencia.

- Course on Gastroenterology Advancements by Dr. Vilardell and Dr. Pérez Mota.

- Ponente en las Sesiones Gastroenterológicas de los Hospitales de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid  con el tema: Dilatación neumática en estenosis pilórica por Carcinoma Antral.

- Professional development course by Fundación Promoción Médica during 1991-1992..

- Lecturer at a course on Alcoholic Liver Disease held at Hospital La Paz in Madrid, in April 1994

- Trainer of an introduction course on Digestive Ultrasound by Sociedad de Ecografía de Madrid (Ultrasound Association of Madrid) provided to family doctors and specialist physicians in 1992, 1993 and 1994.

- Ponente en la Reunión sobre Avances en el Conocimiento del Helicobacter Pylori realizada en el Hospital de Bordeaux.

- Speaker at Mesa Abierta Sobre el Manejo de la Dispepsia y la Enfermedad Ulcerosa (Round table on Dealing with Dyspepsia and/or Ulcer Disease), held during the Congreso Nacional de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria (National Congress on Family Medicine).

- Ponente en el Consenso Español sobre el Tratamiento Erradicador del Helicobacter Pylori(Spanish Consensus on the treatment for Helicobacter Pylori), held in Prague realizado en Praga. 

- Ponente en el Simposium sobre Métodos de control de la erradicación del Helicobacter Pylori en Budapest.

Hobbies

Dr. Luca de Tena interests include photography, painting and theatre. Besides, he often goes horse riding, skiing, scuba diving and paragliding..

What is your opinion about the current state of this medical speciality? What about its future?

Currently, Digestive Medicine stands at a critical juncture, since new technologies open new possibilities and we need to know how to harness them. I have described this moment as critical because we must be able to integrate the humane knowledge of doctors into this new approach. We shall be very mindful that there is a risk that this career becomes dehumanised and that the standardisation of the cause and effect of every result may be established, without assessing the circumstances in which these results were gathered.
In order to overcome this and other challenges, digestive medicine is moving towards the training of doctors that are highly specialised in the different areas of the digestive system: Hepathology, inflammatory bowel disease, Motor Dysfunction Units, pancreas, etc.

What do you like the most about this career? What about CMED?

What appeals to me most about this career is the ongoing process of hypothesis formation that takes place during each medical diagnosis, as well as its subsequent analysis and resolution.
This is one of the reasons why this project is particularly interesting, since it fosters communication and consultation among its different specialists, always within the area of digestive medicine. Likewise, the quick execution of complimentary tests, with direct access to their results available to doctors, cuts time between the first consultation and the diagnosis and subsequent treatment, which results in a marked improvement of patients quality of life.