Dr. Óscar Biurrun Unzué

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Director of the Phoniatrics, Speech Therapy and Audiology Unit of the Tres Torres Clinic (from 1997 to 2009: transition to private activity)
• Director of the Sleep Study Unit of the Tres Torres Clinic (from 1997 to 2009: transition to private activity)
• ENT specialist doctor in the CAP Vallés (Granollers), from April 1992 until personal resignation to said position in November 1997
• Physician attached to the ENT Unit of the VIC General Hospital. Public call failed in July 1992 until 1999 (transition to voluntary leave)
• Scientific Collaboration: Mutual Hearing Impaired Argentina, in the area of General and Pediatric Audiology and Prosthetic Correction of Hearing Disorders
• Scientific Collaboration: Sleep Disorders Clinic. Stanford University Medical Center. California. USA (1994)
• Scientific collaboration: Surgical Treatment Unit of Apnea Syndrome during Sleep. Facial Reconstructive Surgery. Palo Alto. Stanford University California. USA (1994)
• Medical Collaborating Physician: Sleep Studies Unit of the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona (1989-1997)
• Collaboration: Rhinology Unit of the San Pablo Hospital in Barcelona (1991)
• Resident doctor of Otolaryngology at the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona (1988-1991)

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 Teaching posts

• Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Myofunctional Therapy (Higher Institute of Psychological Studies-Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
• Professor of Master Practices in Speech Therapy at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and the Higher Institute of Psychological Studies. Tres Torres Clinic
• Tutor of institutional practices of Speech Therapy and Phoniatrics of the General Hospital of Vic (1992 - 1999)

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 Education

• Elected, based on curricular merits and professional career, academic of the Illustrious Academy of Health Sciences Ramón y Cajal. 2018 year.
• Specialist in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Acupuncture, Phytotherapy and Tuina (Higher School of Traditional Chinese Medicine-University of Beijng)
• Specialist (Official Title via MIR) in Otolaryngology (Clinical Hospital of Barcelona) since January 1, 1992
• Graduated in Homeopathy (ECHR)
• University Specialist in Sleep Disorders Medicine
• Diploma in Audioprosthesis
• Diploma in the Orton Gillingham Dyslexia Treatment Program
• Master in Speech Therapy: Diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of the problems of voice (Phoniatrics), language and speech.
• Doctor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona, "Cum Laude" unanimously, through the doctoral thesis entitled: "Apnea Syndrome during Sleep: Optimization of Surgical Treatment Techniques and Diagnosis of Upper Airway Obstruction ", defended on November 9, 1993 in front of an international tribunal that was attended by Dr. Guilleminault (Stanford University, California), one of the pioneers in the study of sleep disorders and recognized worldwide figure in the field
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Navarra (1987)

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 Publications and conferences

• 6 publications in international English-speaking journals
• 2 chapters of treaties
• 1 Editorial as a guest expert
• 17 publications in national journals
• 19 communications in international congresses
• 49 communications in national congresses
• 35 participations as a visiting professor

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 Professional membership

• Elected Full Member of the Illustrious Academy of Health Sciences Ramón y Cajal.
• Member of the multidisciplinary committee of experts responsible for the preparation of the "Official Presentation of the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Pathology: Chronic Roncopathy. Sleep Obstructive Apnea Syndrome". Madrid: Editorial Garsi, 1998
• Member of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Pathology of the Respiratory System (SEPAR)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Otolaryngology and Cervico-facial Pathology
• Member of the Joint Commission of Speech Therapists of Catalonia- Servei Català de la Salut (from its beginnings, the year 2000, until the middle of 2003)
• Member of the Healthcare Quality Commission of the Vic General Hospital
• Member of the Health Commission of the College of Speech Therapists of Catalonia (from 2000 to mid-2003)
• Member of the multidisciplinary committee of experts responsible for the preparation of the Regulations of the Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Pathology of the Respiratory System (SEPAR) on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Apnea Syndrome during Sleep: "Regulations on diagnosis and treatment of apnea syndrome obstructive sleep (SAOS) ". SEPAR recommendations. Vol. 14. Barcelona: Doyma, 1993

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