Dr. Antonio María de Lacy Fortuny

Clinical area

General / Metabolic Surgery

An international consultant in General and Digestive System Surgery, Dr. Lacy was the first surgeon in Spain to perform Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic surgery (NOTES) to extract a gallbladder orally (2007), or to use Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS) in Obesity Surgery (2009), and to extract a rectal tumour through the anus (2010). He is currently recognised worldwide as a pioneer and expert in colon and rectal cancer surgery, bariatric surgery for morbid obesity and oesophagus cancer surgery, among others, using minimally invasive techniques and robotic surgery.

Professional experience

• Founder and Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery at the Lacy Surgical Institute (present), at Quirónsalud Barcelona Hospital.

• Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Barcelona Hospital Clinic.

Membership in scientific societies

• Member of the Executive Board of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery and other Interventional Techniques (EAES).

• Member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS). Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) (2012).

• Active Member of SAGES (Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons). SAGES International Ambassador Award (2017).

• Member of the Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC) since 1997, belonging to the Endoscopic Surgery, Coloproctology, Hepato-biliary Surgery and Gastro-Oesophageal Surgery divisions.

• Permanent member of the Spanish Society of Morbid Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases (SECO).

• Member of the European Association of Coloproctology.

• Member of the International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition (IASMEN).

• Member of the International Society of Surgery (ISS) of the Société Internationale de Chirurgie (SIC).

Research and teaching

• Over 236 publications in scientific journals, of which 187 in international journals, with a Global Impact Factor of 834,681 (SCI Journal Citation Reports 2016). H-index: 41 (December 2015).

• Lacy AM, Tasende MM, Delgado S, Fernandez-Hevia M, Jimenez M, De Lacy B, Castells A, Bravo R, Wexner SD, Heald RJ. Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer: Outcomes after 140 Patients. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2015 Aug; 221(2): 415-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2015.03.046. Epub 2015 Mar 30.

• Lacy AM, García-Valdecasas JC, Delgado S, Castells A, Taurá P, Piqué JM, Visa J. Laparoscopy-assisted colectomy versus open colectomy for treatment of non-metastatic colon cancer: a randomised trial. The Lancet. 2002 Jun 29; 359(9325): 2224-9.

• Professor of Surgery and Surgical Specialities at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona.

• Leads and gives international courses on advanced colorectal and bariatric (obesity surgery) laparoscopic surgery.

Stay in foreign centers

• 1991 EMORY University. Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Atlanta (USA). Subject: Portal Hypertension. Three months of post-doctorate training with the aim of learning Warren anastomosis techniques (selective shunting technique). Professor JM Henderson.

• Pacific Presbyterian Medical Centre (currently Pacific Medical Centre), San Francisco (USA). Subject: Liver Surgery. 9 months of post-doctorate training with the aim of specialising in liver transplants and liver surgery. Under the tutorship of Dr. Carlos O. Esquivel.

• Other training placements: Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Hospital, Cornell University.

Languages for clinical practice

• Spanish

• Catalan

• English

• French