Dr. F. Javier Aragón Sánchez, MD, PhD
General Surgeon
Head of Department of Surgery and Diabetic Foot Unit. La Paloma Hospital. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
www.piediabetico.net
- Dr. F. Javier Aragón Sánchez was born in Sevilla (Spain) on August 10th, 1963. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the Medical School of the University of Sevilla. He specialised in General Surgery.
- He founded in 1999 a specialized Diabetic Foot Unit in the Paloma Hospital. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain).
- Fellow of the Spanish Surgeon Association.
- Fellow of the group of vascular surgery on behalf of the Spanish Surgeon Association.
- Fellow of the European Diabetic Foot Study Group on behalf of EASD.
- Assistant lecturer in the Health Science School, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University.
- Collaborator lecturer in the Nursing Department, Complutense University, Madrid.
- Scientific advisor on diabetic foot problems of the endovascular diagnosis and therapeutic group (Hospiten, Tenerife)
- Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Study Group (Spain)
- Chairman of the First (Madrid 2003, Spain) and Second (Sevilla 2005, Spain) National Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Meeting. Vice-chairman of the Third National Interdisciplinary Diabetic Foot Meeting (Toledo 2007, Spain).
- Organizer of the yearly course of Diabetic Foot in the Complutense University (Madrid). This is the tenth occasion on which this course has been held.
- Author of the two Spanish Textbooks: “El pie diabético” (The Diabetic Foot) and “Atlas de Manejo Práctico del Pie Diabético” (Atlas of Practical Management of Diabetic Foot).
- Author of several chapters in other textbooks.
- Lecturer about diabetic foot problems in numerous Spanish and International meetings.
- Lecturer in the Wound Healing Course “Evidence based wound management”. University of Southampton, 10th-11th December 2009, presenting “Surgical Management of Diabetic Foot Infections”. This course was approved for CPD credits by the British Orthopaedic Association (Reference number: CPD 158/09).
- Director of the “On-line training program on diabetic foot”. Live-Med.
Monographs
- Vascular wounds and Diabetic Foot
- Surgical Infections
- The General Surgeon facing up to complicated diabetic foot.
Latest published papers dedicated to diabetic foot problems
- Lázaro-Martínez JL, García-Morales E, Beneit-Montesinos JV, Martínez-de-Jesús FR, Aragón-Sánchez FJ. Randomized comparative trial of a collagen/oxidized regenerated cellulose dressing in the treatment of neuropathic diabetic foot ulcers. Cir Esp. 2007 Jul;82(1):27-31.
- Aragón-Sánchez FJ, Cabrera-Galván JJ, Quintana-Marrero Y, Hernández-Herrero MJ, Lázaro-Martínez JL, García-Morales E, Beneit-Montesinos JV, Armstrong DG. Outcomes of surgical treatment of diabetic foot osteomyelitis: a series of 185 patients with histopathological confirmation of bone involvement. Diabetologia. 2008 Nov;51(11):1962-70. Epub 2008 Aug 22.
- Aragón-Sánchez J, Lázaro-Martínez JL. Comments on the use of bemiparin in diabetic foot ulcers. Diabet Med. 2009 Jan;26(1):110.
- Rabellino M, Zander T, Baldi S, Nielsen LG, Aragon-Sanchez FJ, Zerolo I, Llorens R, Maynar M. Clinical follow-up in endovascular treatment for TASC C-D lesions in femoro-popliteal segment. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2008 Dec 30;73(5):701-705.
- J. Aragón-Sánchez, J. L. Lázaro-Martínez*, Y. Quintana-Marrero, M. J. Hernández-Herrero, E. García-Morales*, J. J. Cabrera-Galván and J. V. Beneit-Montesinos. Are diabetic foot ulcers complicated by MRSA osteomyelitis associated with worse prognosis? Outcomes of a surgical series. Diabetic Medicine 2009 Volume 26 Issue 5, Pages 552 – 555.
- Aragón-Sánchez J, García-Rojas A, Lázaro-Martínez JL, Quintana-Marrero Y, Maynar-Moliner M, Rabellino M, Hernández-Herrero MJ, Cabrera-Galván JJ. Epidemiology of diabetes-related lower extremity amputations in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands (Spain). Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2009 Oct;86(1):e6-8. Epub 2009 Jul 14.
- Aragón-Sánchez J, Quintana-Marrero Y, Lázaro-Martínez JL, Hernández-Herrero MJ, García-Morales E, Beneit-Montesinos JV, Cabrera-Galván JJ. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections in the feet of patients with diabetes: outcome of surgical treatment and factors associated with limb loss and mortality. Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2009 Sep;8(3):141-6.
- Aragón-Sánchez J, Hernández-Herrero MJ, Lázaro-Martínez JL, Quintana-Marrero Y, Maynar-Moliner M, Rabellino M, Cabrera-Galván JJ. In-Hospital Complications and Mortality Following Major Lower Extremity Amputations in a Series of Predominantly Diabetic Patients. Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2010; 9(1): 16-23.
- Aragón-Sánchez J. Treatment of Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: A Surgical Critique. Int J Low Extrem Wounds. 2010; 9(1): 37–59.
