Dr. med. Vano David

2006                      Specialty in Internal Medicine, MBBS (5 year course) “Virgen dela Luz”, Cuenca, Spain

1998                      Degree in General Practitioner, University of Valencia, SPAIN(6 year course)

Date                                      :               Nov 2008 – Present

Position/Title     :               Consultant in Internal Medicine.

Head of Unit of Infectious Diseases

Name of Hospital             :               Hospital of Torrevieja, SPAIN

Address                               :               Torrevieja, Spain

About the Hospital

“Hospital of Torrevieja” is a Hospital near Alicante (Spain). It’s a public hospital but with private management. It works since 9 years ago. It has around 250 beds. The department of Internal Medicine has 15 doctors (3 in the subunit of Infectious Diseases) 

Job Description/Responsibilities

• My main function is as Consultant in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. I work full time, about 60 hours/week.

• As a Physician and Doctor of Internal Medicine, I treat and manage diseases and conditions that affect the heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, urinary track, brain, spinal cord and other organs comprising the human biological system.

• In this hospital all the patients admitted are in the department of Internal Medicine except from the surgical and psychiatric patients of course. The rest of medical specialists (Gastroenterology, Pneumology, Neuroogy, Oncology, Cardiology,…) are for make specific tests. So I’m responsible for the patients admitted in the hospital and for the patients in the OPD. I treat patients with medical problems e.g. neurology, pneumology, rheumatology, cardiology, gastroenterology and infectious diseases.
• I ‘m also the head of Unit of Infectious Diseases. I treat HIV patients, patients with tuberculosis or hepatitis and all types of infectious diseases. I’m in the outpatient’s clinic 4 days a week, too, with the treatment and follow-up of the patients with infectious diseases.
• I coordinate with the doctors of the Emergency Unit to determine if the patients are necessary to be admitted or if they could be treated as follow-up outpatients.
• I’m also the primary Consultant between the hospital and a Health Center (General Practitioners) to determine and treat their patients’ medical problems.
• I’m the president of the “Committee of Infectious Diseases of the Hospital”
• At the moment, since about 5 years ago, I also treat and manage diseases of the liver. I manage and treat all types of liver’s pathology as viral hepatitis (hepatitis B and C virus infection, other hepatitis virus like cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr .. ), autoimmune hepatitis, toxic hepatitis, acute and chronic alcoholic liver disease, hepatic cirrhosis, …
• In this moment, our Unit of Infectious Diseases (we are three doctors in that unit) is the responsible in our hospital for the management and treatment of the hepatitis B and C virus infection, in patients with or without HIV. I have experience in start the treatment and in monitoring the efficacy and the side effects during all the treatment.
• I also have experience to make the test called Fibroscan (R) , to quantify hepatic fibrosis in a totally non-invasive manner alternative to liver biopsy

Date                                      :               Jan. 2007 – Nov. 2008

Position/Title                     :               Consultant in Internal Medicine- Consultant in Haemodialysis

Name of Hospital             :               The Ermita Nuestra Señora De Los Reyes

Address                               :               El Hierro, Canary Islands, SPAIN

About the Hospital

“Hospital of Nuestra Señora de los Reyes” is a Hospital in the Canary Islands.  It’s a public hospital with around 30 beds.  The department of Internal Medicine has 3 doctors

Job Description/Responsibilities

• I function as a Consultant in Internal Medicine and worked full time, about 60 hours/week. I’m in-charge for the patients admitted in the hospital and the OPD.
• I’ve treated patients with all the medical problems (neurology, pneumology, rheumatology, cardiology, gastroenterology and infectious diseases).
• I coordinate with the doctors of the Emergency Unit to determine if the patients are necessary to be admitted or if they could be treated as follow-up outpatients.
• I was in-charge of Hemodialysis Department in coordination with the Nephrology Department. I supervised the patients during the session of haemodialysis, their weight, treatment, blood-test, etc.Observing, monitoring, and recording important signs during dialysis procedure, treatment.Assessing patients for any advance complications that occur during the dialysis procedure.Setting and operating hemodialysis device for the provision of dialysis treatment for kidney failure patients.Taking and recording patient’s pre-dialysis blood pressure, weight, temperature, respiration rate, and pulse rate.Inspecting arterial and venous pressures as recorded on machine to ensure that pressures are within standard limits.Explaining operation of machine and dialysis procedure to patient before dialysis treatment to relieve anxieties.

Date                                      :               July 2006 – Jan 2007

Position/Title                     :               Consultant in Internal Medicine

Name of Hospital             :               Hospital “Virgen de la Luz”

Address                               :               Hermandad de Donantes de Sangre, 16002 Cuenca, SPAIN

About the Hospital

“Hospital of Virgen de la Luz” is a Hospital in Cuenca (near Madrid). It’s a public hospital with around 250 beds.  The department of Internal Medicine has around 15 doctors

Job Description/Responsibilities

• I was consultant in Internal Medicine. I work full time, about 50 hours/week.
• Responsible for the patients admitted in the hospital and the OPD.
• Treated patients with all the medical problems (neurology, pneumology, rheumatology, cardiology, gastroenterology and infectious diseases).
• I also worked as Doctor in the Emergency Unit

1. “Late left ventricular perforation as complication of permanent pacing leads”. European Congress of Internal Medicine. Paris 2005.

2. “A randomized trial of a short course with isoniazid plus rifampin in front of isoniazid during six months in latent tuberculosis infection”. XVI European Congress of Microbiology and Infectious. Niza. 2006

3. “Enfoque práctico para entender la calidad en el laboratorio”. Cuenca. Spain. 2006
4. “Valoración indirecta de la calidad de vida en pacientes con obstrucción crónica al flujo aéreo en medicina interna”. XXVII Congreso de la sociedad española de medicina interna. Salamanca. 2006
5. “Meningoencefalitis por CMV en paciente inmunocompetente”. LVI reunión Grupo de estudio de Castilla La Mancha de enfermedades infecciosas. Talavera Reina. 2005
6. “Valor pronóstico a largo plazo de dos índices de comorbilidad en pacientes con síndrome coronario agudo”. XXX congreso nacional de la scoeidad española de medicina interna. Valencia. 2009
7. „Estudio de fungemias en el Hospital de Torrevieja, Mayo 2006 a Abril 2011” J.Garcia ; Vañó ; E. Sirvent ; Alicante. Spain. 2011
8. 2nd bianual meeting of multiresistent tuberculosis. Elche. Spain. 2012
9. “Análisis retrospectivo sobre los casos de gripe A diagnósticados en el Hospital de Torrevieja ”. XXXV congreso nacional de la sociedad española de medicina interna. Murcia. 2014
10. “ESTUDIO DESCRIPTIVO DE 60 CASOS DE SÍFILIS”. R. Hernández ; Vañó ; J. García ; R. Vidal ; A. Hernández ; R. Martínez ; C .Llopis ; E. Sirvent ; V. Navarro. Castellon. Spain, 2013
11. “BACTERIEMIAS POR CEPAS DE ESCHERICHIA COLI PRODUCTORAS DE BETALACTAMASA DE ESPECTRO EXTENDIDO. ESTUDIO DE 65 CASOS” . Vañó , R. Hernández , A. Hernández , R. Vidal , E. Sirvent , J. C Escribano , J.C. Blázquez, V. Navarro. Congreso Sociedad Enfermedades Infecciosas Comunidad Valencia. Castellón 2013
12. “¿QUE “SE COMENTA” EN TORREVIEJA SOBRE EL CHEMSEX Y LA PREP?” T. Orviz Suárez, J. García García, D. Vañó Sanchís, Y. Domínguez Espido, A.Guillamón Sánchez, J.M. López-Quiñones Llamas, R. Hernández Ros.  Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica. Bilbao, mayo 2018.