Eduardo Miñambres García

Eduardo Miñambres is an intensivist at Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital (Santander, Spain) from June 2002. Doctor in Medicine from the University of Cantabria in 2002. Head of the Transplant Coordination Unit at Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital and Regional Transplant Coordination Office from January 2011. Associate Professor in Surgery at University of Cantabria (Spain). Member in a number of official organisms and scientific societies (SEMICYUC, ESOT, ISODP, SET, ONT). Research: Initially focused on apoptotic biomarkers in acute brain injured patients. Since 2009, researches moved towards brain death, organ donation and lung transplantation. In particular, development of brain dead donor management therapies focused on increasing the number of thoracic grafts available for transplantation and the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) devices as tools to ameliorate the ischemic damage in donors after circulatory death. Research lines have been funded in competitive national calls: 6 as PI (1 Ministry of Health, 2 regional, 3 Fundación Mutua Madrileña), Author of 90 works indexed in PubMed (H-Index: 19), 8 directed PhD projects.