Salvador Morales Conde

• Chief of Surgery at Quirónsalud Sagrado Corazón Hospital in Seville (Spain).
• Coordinator of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Innovation Clinic within the Surgery Department at Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío in Seville (Spain).
• Head of the Unit of Bariatric Excellence within the Minimally Invasive Surgery Institute (Spanish acronym: IMIS).

National

AEC (Spanish acronym for Spanish Association of Surgeons):

• President of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC).
• Director of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Laparoscopic Surgery Training Program.
• Coordinator of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Endoscopic Surgery Section (2010-2014).
• Coordinator of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Abdominal Wall and Sutures Section (2006-2010).
• Coordinator of the "Surgery-AEC-COVID" group for the development of working guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Secretary of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Endoscopic Surgery Section (2006-2010).
• Secretary of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Abdominal Wall and Sutures Section (2002-2006).
• Member of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Endoscopic Surgery Section (2002-2006).
• Secretary of the 15th Meeting of the Spanish Association of Surgeons, held in Seville in October 2005.

SECO (Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery)

• Member of the SECO Governing Board – IFSO representative (since 2015).

International

EAES (European Association for Endoscopic Surgery)

• President of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (from 2019 for the 2021-2023 term).
• Member of the EAES Technology Committee (2012-2014).

EHS (European Hernia Society)

• EHS Secretary General (2014-2020).
• EHS Secretary for Education (2012-2014).
• EHS Board Member (2006-2012).
• President of the 30th European Hernia Congress, held in Seville in May 2008.

UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists)

• Vice President of the UEMS Abdominal Wall Surgery Division (European Union of Medical Specialists)

EAES (European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons)

• Member of the EAES Technology Committee (2012-2014).

EuraHS (European Hernia Registry)

• Board Member of EuraHS (European Registry for Abdominal Wall HerniaS Working Group).

• Founder, Director and Teacher of the international, online training program "Hernia U" – Online platform for continuing medical education, started in 2016
• General Director of Research at the Royal College of Physicians of Seville (2012-2018)
• President of the Junior Expert Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of Seville since 2018
• Coordinator of the "Operation Hernia" Humanitarian Mission groups in Ghana in 2008 and 2009 and Nigeria in 2010.

University and teaching positions:

• Associate Professor in the Surgery Department of the University of Seville starting in academic year 2003-04.
• Title of Guest Professor from the Department of Medicine at the National University of the Northeast (Argentina).
• Director of the Spanish Association of Surgeons' Laparoscopic Surgery Training Program.
• Coordinator of the Training Plan for Basic Laparoscopic Surgery Skills from the Governing Board of Andalusia Health Service.

Qualifications and recognition:

• Title of University Expert in Laparoscopic Surgery and Minimally Invasive Techniques from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain).
• Title of Expert in Bariatric Surgery from the Spanish Society of Obesity Surgery (SECO).
• Academic with the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Seville since 12 December 1996.
• Certified in Laparoscopic Visceral Surgery Training by Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg (France).
• Academic with the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Lugo since March 2003.
• Member of the Department Council of the University of Seville since 2017.
• Professor of IRCARD/EITS (European Institute of Telesurgery) in Strasbourg, France, since 2005.
• Professor of IRCARD/EITS in Barretos, Brazil, since 2012.
• Professor at the Italian School of Abdominal Wall Surgery.

Research:

• Numerous research grants as principal investigator with public and private funding.
• Publication of over 130 articles in indexed journals with impact factor.
• Director of 15 doctoral theses at the University of Seville, all with Cum Laude honors.
• Publication of numerous books and book chapters both nationally and internationally.
• Participation in numerous Clinical Guidelines and Expert Consensus papers at an international level.
• Development of various surgical techniques that are currently used around the world.

• Distinguished Doctor from the Royal College of Physicians of Seville, granted in 2018.
• Honorable Member of the Venezuelan Society of Surgeons, of the Cuban Society of Surgery, and of the French Club Hernie.
• Honorable President of the National Congress of the Portuguese Society for Minimally Invasive Surgery in 2019, at the "Mesh-2018" meeting, organized by Club Hernie in Paris and the Congress "State of Art in Hernia Surgery" organized in Lviv, Ukraine in 2017.
• Recognition of contribution to Technological Advancements in Surgery from the Lviv City Council, Ukraine in 2017.
• "Person of the year in Andalusia" 2017, recognition granted for the impact of his professional development by the Correo de Andalucía newspaper and Fundación Cajasol.
• "The Five Best Surgeons in Spain," recognition from Forbes magazine in 2017.
• "The Top 100 Doctors in Spain," recognition from Forbes magazine in 2018 and 2019.