Dr Francesc Tuca Rodríguez
General Surgery
First Floor / Module A – 972 483 838
Dr Francesc Tuca Rodríguez is a doctor specialising in General and Digestive Tract Surgery with a sub-specialisation in Breast Pathology.
Healthcare training
- Degree in Medicine and Surgery at Univesitat Autònoma de Barcelona, graduating class of 1973-1979.
- University Diploma in Senology (Breast Pathology) at Universitat de Barcelona in 1992.
Trajectory
- Resident Doctor in the General and Digestive Surgery Department at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, awarded a position through the National MIR Call of 1980. 02/01/1980 - 31/04/1985.
- Specialist in General and Digestive System Surgery at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (degree issued in Madrid on 4th March 1986).
- Consultant Surgeon in the General Surgery Department at Hospital Univesitari Dr. Josep Trueta University in Girona from 1985 to the present, having secured a position as Specialist Physician in Institut Català de la Salut on 18/07/1989.
- Head of the General Surgery Department at Hospital Dr. Josep Trueta in Girona from September 1998 to July 2001.
- Co-ordinator of the Breast Pathology Unit atHospital Dr. Josep Trueta in Girona. President of the Breast Pathology Committee since 1989.
Teaching activity
- Author of 38 articles published in national and international scientific journals.
- Premi Corachan of Societat Catalana de Cirurgia in 1992.
- President of the Organising Committees of the III Catalan Congress of Surgery (June 2001) and the III Catalan Congress of Senology and Breast Pathology (May 2004).
- Author of over 200 presentations or communications at state and international conferences.
Membership
- Full Member of Societat Catalana de Cirurgia since 1984, of Sociedad Española de Cirujanos since 1989, of Sociedad Española de Senología y Patologia mamaria since 1992, of the International Society of Surgery since 1992, and of Societat Catalano-Balear d'Oncologia, 1998.
- Member of the Board of Directors of Agrupació de Ciències Mèdiques de Girona (1987-1989 and 1998-1999) and member of the Board of Directors of Societat Catalana de Cirurgia (1999-2001).
