Dr. Ana María Otero Piñeiro,
Address: Plaza Alfonso Comín, 5 08023 Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
Gender: Female
About the Doctor / Professional
Dr. Ana María Otero Piñeiro is a specialist in General and Digestive Surgery at Hospital Universitari Quirónsalud Barcelona and Hospital Universitari Quirónsalud Badalona, with a focus on colorectal surgery. She holds a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2007), completed her surgical residency at Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, and earned a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2018) with a thesis on indocyanine green fluorescence angiography to prevent anastomotic leakage in colorectal surgery, awarded Outstanding, Cum Laude.
She was a research fellow in the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic from 2021-2022, where her work centered on Crohn’s disease, including complex fistulas and ileoanal pouch surgery. Her research also covers rectal cancer, transanal total mesorectal excision, and robotic colorectal surgery. She has published in journals such as Surgical Endoscopy, Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, and the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis, and is an associate professor at the University of Barcelona.
Degree: Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (2007)
Residency: Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol (Barcelona) - Specialist in General and Digestive Surgery (2013)
- Since 2015, Consultant I, Colorectal Surgery Department, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Barcelona
- 2008-2013 Surgical Residency, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol (Barcelona)
- 2014-2019 Staff Surgeon, Gastrointestinal Surgery Department (Head: Professor A.M. Lacy), Hospital Quirón Barcelona
- 2013-2019 Staff Surgeon, Emergency Surgery Department, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (Barcelona)
- 2013-2015 Staff Surgeon, Emergency Surgery Department, Hospital Parc Taulí (Sabadell)
- 2013 Staff Surgeon, Gastrointestinal Surgery (Professor A.M. Lacy), Quirúrgica Cirujanos Asociados; Hospital de
- Barcelona, Hospital Quirón-Dexeus and Centro Médico Teknon (Barcelona)
- 2013-2014 Staff Surgeon, Emergency Surgery Department, Hospital Sant Jaume de Calella (Calella)
- 2008 Staff Surgeon, Emergency Surgery Department, Hospital Parc Taulí (Sabadell)
- Research focus: colorectal surgery, specifically rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s), and complex perianal/anovaginal fistulas.
- Transanal TME (TaTME) and ICG fluorescence angiography: her PhD thesis on ICG fluorescence angiography to prevent anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery was awarded Outstanding, Cum Laude (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018). She was first author of a 2021 Surgical Endoscopy study on ICG angiography and anastomotic leak after TaTME.
- Crohn’s and pouch surgery: first-author papers in J Crohns Colitis, J Gastrointest Surg, and Dis Colon Rectum (2022-2024) on Crohn’s rectovaginal fistulas, ileoanal pouch complications, and salvage surgery, from her Cleveland Clinic fellowship (Nov 2021-Oct 2022).
- Stem cell therapy for fistulas: co-author on phase I and IB/IIA trials of mesenchymal stem cells for fistulizing Crohn’s disease, and Principal Investigator on the INSPIRE darvadstrocel registry.
- Trials as collaborator: COLOR III, TAUTEM, TAUTEM-T1, and CRONOS. She is listed as collaborator or study-group member, not lead author, so the wording should say “participated in.”
- Other: book chapters, including Shackelford’s Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and a Springer text on robotic colorectal surgery, and peer review for Colorectal Disease, Surgery, and Diseases of the Colon & Rectum, among others.
- Anal Fistula Surgery
- Colectomy
- Colon Cancer Treatment
- Colorectal Cancer
- Colorectal Medicine Consultation
- Crohn's Disease Treatment
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Da Vinci Robotic Surgery
- Hemicolectomy
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Spanish Association of Surgeons (AEC)
- Spanish Association of Coloproctology (AECP)
- ECCO (European Crohn’s and Colitis Organization)
- ESCP (European Society of Coloproctology)
- Catalan Society of Surgery
- Barcelona Medical Council (COMB)
- Ana María Otero Piñeiro, MD, PhD | Curriculum Vitae
- Member of the AECP Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Working Group
- Member of the AECP Inflammatory Bowel Disease Working Group
- Member of the AECID START humanitarian response team since 2023