Dr. Julio Prudencio Díaz-Agero Álvarez is an eminence in the field of Thoracic Surgery. Throughout his prestigious professional career, he has deepened in the techniques of respiratory endoscopy and therapeutic bronchoscopy, becoming a reference in the management of these methods. He has performed more than 19,000 diagnostic explorations and more than 1,400 procedures carried out through endoscopic resections of tumors, tracheal stenosis and endoprosthesis implantation, among others. 

He is head of the Thoracic Surgery Section at La Paz Hospital and director of the Cell Therapy Group in Airway Fistulous Pathology at IdiPAZ. He combines his work in health care with dissemination as a lecturer at conferences and scientific congresses both nationally and internationally. In addition, he also teaches as an adjunct professor at various educational institutions. 

• Head of the Cell Therapy Group in Airway Fistulous Pathology at IdiPAZ. 
• Head of Clinical Thoracic Surgery at SERMAS. 
• President of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgery. 
• Vice President of the Spanish Association of Respiratory Endoscopy and Interventional Pneumology. 
• President of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Association of Respiratory Endoscopy and Interventional Pneumology. 
• Editor of the international journals LUNG and Engineering Tissue. 
• Lecturer at national and international congresses and scientific conferences. 
• Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Madrid. 
• Specialist in Thoracic Surgery by the National Institute of Health. 
• Member of: 
  
  • European Society of Thoracic Surgeons 
  • Spanish Association of Respiratory Endoscopy and Interventional Pneumology 
  • Madrid Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery 
  • European Society for Thoracic Surgery 
  • International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 
  • Spanish Society of General Surgery 
  • Spanish Society of Thoracic Surgeons