Martínez Santos, Cristina

Medical Specialty

Cervical Endocrine Surgery

License number

29/32/03142

Languages

English and Spanish

Training

1995: Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Seville.
2001: Especialist in General and Digestive Surgery at Getafe University Hospital, Madrid.
2002: Doctorate from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
2013: European Board of Neck-Endocrine Surgery. UEMS.

Work chronology

2001: Specialist Physician in the General Surgical Department at Verín Hospital, Orense.
2002 until now: Specialist Physician in the General Surgery Department at Costa del Sol University Hospital in Marbella. Head of the Endocrine Surgery Unit.

 

Clinical rotations
2001 Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA.
2001 Minimally invasive Surgery Center. Mount Sinai Medical Center New York, USA.
2009 Endocrine Surgery Department Pisa University Hospital. Italy.

 

Cooperation projects
2006 Peruvian Amazonic Rainforest in Sepahua.
2007 Saharawi refugee camps.

Scientific Associations

Spanish Surgery Association (AEC). Member from 1998. National Coordinator of the Endocrine Surgery Section 2020-2024.

 

European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES). Member from 2010. Board examiner and Scientific Committee.

 

Eurocrine Society (European Quality Registry of Endocrine Surgery). Member from 2017. Secretary 2024-2028.

Last Scientific Publications

Aportación de la autofluorescencia en el hiperparatiroidismo.
C. Martínez Santos, Jesús María Villar del Moral.
J Manuel Rodríguez Sánchez et al (eds). Autofluorescencia en cirugía endocrina cervical; 2023. P. 69-78. ISBN: 978-84-09-47958-0.

 

Nódulo tiroideo y bocio multinodular.
C Martinez Santos, E Bollo Arocena.
P Parrilla Paricio et al (eds). Cirugia AEC (tercera edición). Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamericana; 2022. p. 925-32. ISBN 978-84-9110-104-8.

 

Jaw Tumor Syndrome
M. Iacobone, C Martínez-Santos, F Torresan.
A. Shifrin et al (eds.), Endocrine Surgery Comprehensive Board Exam Guide. ed. Springer 2021. p. 847-867.
ISBN 978-3-030-84736-4. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3030-84737-1_35.

 

Usefulness of ultrasound-guided core biopsy in thyroid nodules with inconclusive fine-needle aspiration biopsy findings.
R. Cortázar-García, MD Martínez-Escalante, L Robles-Cabezo, C Martínez Santos
Radiología /Eng Ed). 2020 Juk 24:S0033-8338(20)30074-6. Doi: 10.1016/j.rx2020.06.001. Online ahead of print. PMDI: 32718472.

 

Manejo de la hormona paratiroidea y de la calcemia perioperatoria en el hiperparatiroidismo primario. C. Martínez Santos. 3ª Edición Guía Cirugía Endocrina Asociación Española de Cirujanos 2020: 233-238. ISBN 978-84-18116-81-0.

 

¿Sigue siendo útil la determinación de PTH intraoperatoria hoy en día? C. Martínez Santos, G. Martín Callejón, F. Lucena Navarro, N. Gándara Adán. Cir Andaluza 2020: 31 (3):282-6.

Teaching

2010-2021: Tutor of the medical residents of the general and Digestive Surgery at the Costa del Sol University Hospital

 

Teacher “Course for residents about Benign thyroid pathology” 2019.

 

Teacher “Endocrine Surgery Course for residents” 2021-2022-2023-2024.

 

Director of Master “Endocrine Surgery Bases AEC”. Editorial Panamericana. Barcelona University.

Latest presentations

ESES webinar 12-2024. “PTH levels and pHPT”.

 

AEC webinar 2024. “New systems of information and tools to help in decision-making. Experiences in endocrine surgery”.

 

XXXIV Surgery National Congress 2022. “Information about quality of life after surgery”.

 

VIII Reuniao Iberica de Cirugía Endocrina (RICE) 2022. “European Board of Endocrine Surgery”.

 

9th Biennial Congress ESES 2022. Best oral presentation: “Could endocrine surgeons improve the information provided to thyroid cancer patients?”

 

XXIII Surgery National Meeting 2021. “Are we ready for the worst?”

 

XXXIII Surgery National Congress 2020. “Results of Hyperparathyroidism surgery in Spain according to Eurocrine data”.