María Jesús Rodríguez, head of the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital.
The investigative and innovative strategy of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation University Hospital have led it to hold a referential role in the treatment and diagnosis of lung cancer and to top the rankings of the most prominent centers in both the fields of Pneumology and Oncology. A recognition that is not the result of chance, has stressed its head of the Pneumology Service, Maria Jesus Rodriguez, who has highlighted the efforts of his unit not only at the care level but also in terms of teaching and research. In this sense, he has valued the development of pioneering techniques in the Community of Madrid, especially in the field of early detection of this type of pathology.
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Inauguration of the Interhospital Conference on Pneumology with the Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital as the protagonist. |
Rodríguez has been in charge of projecting the main lines of activity of his Service at the inauguration of the Interhospital Conference on Pneumology from Madrid about the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, an event organized by Medical Writing in collaboration with Oximesa Nippon Gases and the sponsorship of the Pneumomadrid Foundation.
In the inaugural act, the president-publisher of Medical Writing, Jose Maria Pino; and the president of the Madrid Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery-Neumomadrid, Francisco Javier Garciawho has highlighted the need to advance in the early diagnosis of lung cancer, the third most diagnosed tumor in Spain only behind colorectal and breast cancer; and the neoplasia that kills the most globally.
Francisco Javier García, president of the Madrid Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery-Pneumomadrid. |
“Less than 20 percent of lung cancer cases are diagnosed in curable stagesIt is a challenge that we pulmonologists have in common”, pointed out García. In this sense, he has highlighted the work carried out in a hospital “so emblematic, prestigious and relevant” such as that of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation, which pioneering strategies in the region in the treatment of this disease.
José María Pino has also valued the trajectory of the hospital: “It is one of the oldest hospitals and, without a doubt, one of the most prestigious in the Community of Madrid. And, of course, the flagship of the Quirón Group , at least in Pulmonology”.
In fact, the Madrid center has among its main lines of action the development of new techniques for addressing the disease, such as the one represented by the Early Detection of Lung Cancerthe call Deprecapwhich according to María Jesús Rodríguez focuses on the diagnosis of the tumor in its early stages.
María Jesús Rodríguez, head of the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital. |
“We have developed digital tools with automated tasks that allow the program to be offered to the entire population at risk, which guarantees a good resource management necessary so that the assistance is of quality”, has detailed the person in charge of the Pneumology Service of the center.
High prestige researcher against lung cancer
During his speech on the set of Medical WritingRodríguez has exposed other strategies of the Jiménez Díaz in the field of Pneumology, from the management accreditation by Separ (Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery) to the promotion of a multidisciplinary sleep unit that includes up to eight services focused on this pathology “with high prestige in research and teaching.
A series of tools that, according to Rodríguez, complement the respiratory intermediate care unit (UCRI), a service “very much in vogue” and with “very high efficiency in the field of respiratory failure”; as well as that of interventional bronchoscopy.
José María Pino, president-editor of Redacción Médica |
José María Pino, María Jesús Rodríguez and Francisco Javier García. |
From Oximesa-Nippon Gases Healthcare: Alia Nehme Álvarez, Zona Cero salesperson; together with Manuel Rico Merino, DUE Commercial Ground Zero. |
Germán Peces-Barba, Associate Head of the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital; Francisco Javier Garcia; and Felipe Villar, associate chief of the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital. |
Germán Peces-Barba, Manuel Rico Merino, Francisco Javier García, Alia Nehme Álvarez and Felipe Villar. |
María Fernanda Troncoso, specialist in the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital; Felipe Villar; and Elena Cabezas, a specialist from the same Service. |
José María Pino, Francisco Javier García, María Jesús Rodríguez and Germán Peces-Barba. |
Jose Maria Pino, Maria Jesus Rodriguez, Manuel Rico Merino, Maria Fernanda Troncoso, Francisco Javier Garcia and Alia Nehme Alvarez. |
Javier Alfayate, specialist in the Pneumology Service of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital; and Borja Recalde, associate specialist of the same Service. |
German Fish-Barba, Carolina Gotera and Javier Alfayate. |
María Aragonés, editor of the Medical Writing Podcast Section. |
Family photo of the Interhospital Conference on Pneumology of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz Hospital. |
A moment of the inauguration of the Interhospital Conference on Pneumology Hospital Fundación Jiménez Díaz. |
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