Fernando Alfageme

Fernando Alfageme Roldán (Madrid, July 9, 1977) is a doctor specialized in dermatology. Introducer of cutaneous ultrasound in Spain, he is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and responsible for the Dermatological Ultrasound Unit at the Puerta de Hierro University Hospital in Majadahonda. He is the author of several essays, manuals and academic articles about Dermatology.

He received a doctorate in Medicine and Surgery (UCM) with the thesis "Children's Dermatological Surgery at the Gregorio Marañon Hospital: clinical analysis, economic profitability and post-surgical satisfaction" in 2010 and is a graduate in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2001). Specialized in Diagnostic imaging in dermatology (dermatoscopy and cutaneous ultrasound) and its applications (teledermatology and minimally invasive interventionism).

Once published the article "Cutaneous ultrasound" in the journal Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (2014), he was considered the introducer of the diagnostic technique of cutaneous ultrasound in Spain, having been used for the first time in the hispanic world by the radiologist Dra. Wortsman in Chile.

New investigations and applications of this diagnostic technique have allowed to detect different pathologies, among them the cancer of skin or cutaneous malignant melanoma. Cutaneous ultrasound is also used for inflammatory processes, nail disorders, hair diseases and derma-aesthetics.

He is a member of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) and a member of the Spanish Society of Ultrasound (SEECO), the International Dermoscopy Society (IDS) and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He is also a member of the European Nail Society.

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