Core Group members

Professor Arcelus is Professor of Surgery at the University of Granada Medical School and an attending staff member in the Department of Surgery of the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain.  He graduated in medicine from the University of Granada Medical School in 1982 and later obtained a PhD, specializing in thrombosis, from the same university. After his residency in general and gastrointestinal surgery at the University Hospital of Granada, Professor Arcelus was a research fellow in the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA (1989 to 1992) and became Associate Director of the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Group at Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL (1990 to 1992).
 
Major research interests pursued by Professor Arcelus include the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and follow-up of VTE in general- and orthopaedic-surgery patients.
 
Professor Arcelus has had an active role in the INvestigators Against ThromboEmbolism (INATE) educational programme since 2001 and is involved in the Spanish Computerized Registry of Patients with Venous Thromboembolism (RIETE). He is Patron of the Spanish Foundation for the Study of Thromboembolism (FUENTE) and is active in both the International Surgical Thrombosis Forum (ISTF) and the European Task Force for Sharing Expertise in Thrombosis (ETFET). Professor Arcelus has an extensive publications list including several book chapters on subjects related to VTE.