Top Doctors®, the most prestigious international medical directory, today announced the Top 10 Spanish medical specialists winners of the Top Doctors® Awards 2015. These awards aim to highlight the high level of Spanish private medicine and help patients identify the best specialist in each medical area and for each case. This is the second Spanish edition of these awards, which the company has been awarding for a decade in the United States and which arrived in Spain in 2014.
These are the 10 Spanish medical specialists most highly valued by the doctors themselves, to whom they would go if they had a health problem, and who have been evaluated taking into account their training, their outstanding professional careers and their high degree of specialization. The ten winners of the Top Doctors Awards have also been recognized by patients with their excellent ratings and positive comments through Top Doctors.
The list is made up, in alphabetical order:
– Dr. Jordi Antoni Vives, Barcelona – Referent in gynecological cancer with training at the prestigious Mayo Clinic – Dr. Miguel Ángel Arráez Sánchez, Málaga – pioneer in the introduction of techniques such as fluorescence-guided brain tumor resection in Spain – Dr. Carlos Concejo Cútoli, Pamplona – Specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery with a diploma from the European Board. – Dr. Emilio García-Ibáñez Ferrándiz, Barcelona – First Spanish ENT specialist to win the American Neurotology Society Award – Dr. Diego González Rivas, A Coruña – creator of the technique for the removal of lung tumors through a single incision (Uniportal VATS technique) – Dr. María José Ribal Caparrós, Barcelona – head of Uro-Oncology at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and first Spanish specialist to win the Crystal Matula Award (2009) – Dr. Manuel Vicente López Santamaría, Madrid – Head of the Pediatric Surgery Service and Head of the Digestive Transplant Unit at the Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid – Dr. Ricardo Ruiz Rodríguez, Madrid – International reference in dermatology, speaker at the American Academy of Dermatology – Dr. Carlos Ruiz-Ocaña Montalvo, Madrid – specialist in neurosurgery at the Hospital Universitario Quirón and President of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery. – Dr. Manuel David Tomás Barberán, Mallorca – Head of the Otorhinolaryngology Service at Clínica Juaneda, Hospital Universitario Son Espases and Hospital Quirón in Palma de Mallorca.
A selection process based on excellence
Top Doctors’ exclusive method of configuring its medical staff is currently the most rigorous in the world. All doctors are subjected to exhaustive audits by Top Doctors and the external consultant Adecco Medical Science, and the evaluation of a Medical Management Committee that helps to maintain excellence in the selection process. Only 1 out of 10 specialists manages to pass this process and become part of the select medical staff of Top Doctors at an international level.
Throughout 2015, more than 80,000 medical specialists have been consulted and their votes have selected the ten winners of the Top Doctors Awards 2015, the winners have also been recognized by patients with their excellent ratings and positive comments through Top Doctors.