Dr Rafael Bernabeu was born in Alicante on 12 December 1957 and is the Medical Director of Instituto Bernabeu.
He graduated with an honours degree in Medicine and Surgery from the medical school of the University of Valencia in 1980 and was certified as an intern by the Department of Medical Physiology, General Pathology and General Surgery.
He is a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology since 1984 with continual training since then with placements in different national, European and international centres (New York University; Cornell University in NY; John Hopkins University in Baltimore, etc.).
Medical Doctor, University Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain.
State Obstetrician.
Director of the Reproductive Medicine Professorship in the medical school of the University Miguel Hernández in Elche since its foundation in 2004, which has its headquarters at the Instituto Bernabeu.
Honorary Associate Professor of the medical school at the University Miguel Hernández in Elche, Spain.
Associate Professor of Developmental Biology in the Biology Department of the University of Alicante.
Professor of the Human Reproduction master’s programme at the medical school of the University Miguel Hernández in Elche, Spain.
Author of over 150 national and international articles in prestigious Reproductive Medicine journals: Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, Histology and Histopathology, Ebioforum Europe, among others, as well as forewords in various books on the specialty.
Author of more than 100 speeches at national conferences and 36 international conferences.
Research Prize from the Spanish Society of Fertility in 2000 and in 2010.
Member of the editorial committee of Iberoamerican Fertility Magazine and the Spanish Obstetrics and Gynaecology Magazine.
ESHRE Referee (European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology)
Board Member of the 2000 Foundation of Medical Research
Spokesperson for SEF (Spanish Fertility Society)
Long-standing member of SEF, ESHRE, ASRM (American Society of Reproductive Medicine), SEGO (Spanish Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, ASESA (Spanish Society of Andrology) and SGOCV (Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics of the Valencian Community)
Member of the British Fertility Society (BFS)
President of ANACER: National Association of Assisted Reproduction Centres, which brings together more than twenty prestigious centres from all over Spain.
Organiser-Chairman of numerous Courses, Conferences and Symposia regarding Infertility.
Speaker at various Academic Events within the specialty.
Honorary Partner of the Department of Biotechnology at the University of Alicante
HEALTHCARE ACTIVITY:
Since 1985, some of the most important healthcare activities in the field of Reproductive Medicine are listed below: