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Ignacio Blanco, MD, PhD, earn his medical degree from the School of Medicine at the University of Barcelona and received his PhD in Medicine and Surgery at the Autonomos University of Barcelona. Dr. Blanco trained in General Surgery at Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona and did a post doctoral fellowship with Dr. Margaret Tempero and Dr. David Colcher at Nebraska Medical Center, USA. Dr. Blanco has been accredited as a Clinical Geneticist by the Spanish Association of Human Genetics.Dr. Blanco is currently the Clinical Director of the Unified Laboratory of the Metropolitan Nord (LUMN) and Chairman of the Genetic Counseling and Clinical Genetics Program at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital.Its clinical work focuses on the identification and monitoring of individuals and families with genetic diseases, with a special interest in minority diseases. Dr. Blanco has participated in the development of National and International guidelines for the management of hereditary predisposition syndromes and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases (FEDER).He is the author or co-author of more than 130 articles in indexed journals.The main lines of research focus on the study of Neurofibromatosis and the emotional impact of genetic counseling on hereditary diseases.At the teaching level, he is an associate professor in the Department of Surgery of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Listed skills include Cancer, Ciencias Naturales, Genetics, Genomics, and 17 others.