Joan Vidal-Jové

Joan Vidal-Jové is the Director of the Comprehensive Tumor Center Barcelona and works at the Institute Khuab for Interventional Oncology. He is a Surgical Oncologist that has developed his career in various institutions in the U.S. and Europe, both in the healthcare field, research in industry and public administration. Author of several publications and conferences, has received awards and research grants in Surgical Oncology, Diagnostic Imaging Techniques and Research in Health Outcomes. After an educational period in China, he learns the fundamentals of the Ablation of Tumors by Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) and returns to lead the first oncological FUS-HIFU Unit of his country. Since then, he has performed more than 200 oncological cases with Focused Ultrasound and leaded clinical research, with special attention to pancreatic and liver tumors. He was the PI of the First in Human Study of Histotripsy in Liver Tumors. Since then, he has been involved in the development of Histotripsy in liver, kidney and pancreatic tumors and researched the asociated immune effects from the clinical viewpoint.