Today, Tuesday, February 7, at 12 o'clock, was held in the Auditorium of the Clinical Vistahermosa of Alicante, the act of signing and presentation of Reproductive Biomedicine Vistahermosa Chair.
The Director of the Chair is Dr. Jose J. Lopez Galvez and the Academic Director, Prof. Joaquin Rueda. In the Chair integrates thirty professionals UMH, Vistahermosa Clinic’s own and other assisted reproduction centers and hospitals in Madrid and Asturias.
The event was chaired by D. Jesus Pastor Thaddeus Ciurana, Rector of the University Miguel Hernandez and also attended by Dr. Francisco Ivorra, ASISA President and other members of the university community, the medical director of the Clinic Vistahermosa, Concha Giner and those referred parents, responsible of the 2 units that provide training assistance to this chair both Vistahermosa Reproduction Unit and the Unit of Genetics.
The Department of Reproductive Biomedicine is configured as a special chair at the University Miguel Hernandez, assigned to the Department of Anatomy and Histology and will have headquarters in the hospital itself. Surge joint initiative of the University and the Reproduction Unit Vistahermosa Clinic and is a landmark in relations between teaching and research collaboration leading educational institution and the hospital for eleven years.
The objectives of the Chair are part of the organization of teaching, research and outreach in the field of reproductive medicine and biology, designed as a service to society Alicante. To date, collaboration between the two institutions has ensured that the group of professionals and researchers who are part of the Chair is a national reference in the training of specialists in medicine, reproductive biology and genetics. In recent months, the collaboration between UMH and Units Reproduction and Genetics Clinic has Vistahermosa to market the first global virtual simulator for handling embryos and the first private biobank Spain.