Dr. Germán Espino, - FACP
Especialidad: Hematología
Estudios
- Bachiller en Ciencias, Letras y Filosofía, Colegio Javier-1984
- Egresado de la Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Panamá-1991
- Residencia de Medicina Interna, Hospital Santo Tomás-1994 a 1997
- Residencia de Hematología, Caja del Seguri Social-1997-1999
- Entrenamiento en Trasplante de Médula Ósea, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA-1999 a 2000 - Entrenamiento en Trasplante de Médula Ósea, Leipzig, Alemania-2013
- Maestría en Biología/Oncología Molecular-2018 a 2019
Experiencia Laboral
- Caja del Seguro Social-2000 a 2008
- Hospital Santo Tomás-2008 a 2012
- Caja del Segurio Social-2013 a 2016
- Asesor Médico Novartis Pharmaceutic-2004
- Director Médico Banco de Sangre, Hospital Nacional-2004
- Director Médico Banco de Sangre, Hospital San Fernando-2006
- Centro Hemato Oncológico Panamá-2001 al presente
Organizaciones
- Miembro de la Sociedad Panameña de Medicina Interna
- Miembro de la Sociedad Panameña de Hematología
- Miembro de la Sociedad American de Hematología
- Miembro de la Sociedad Americana de Trasplante de Médula Ósea
- Chair del Comité de Donantes del Grupo Latinoamericano de Trasplante
- Miembro del Grupo Latinoamericano de Mieloma Múltiple
- Fellow American College of Physicians
Áreas de Interés
- Leucemias Crónicas
- Mieloma Múltiple
- Trasplante de Médula Ósea
- Biología Molecular
Publicaciones
- #1. G Espino, J Denney, T Furlong, W Fitzsimmons, and RA Nash. Assessment of myocardial
hypertrophy by echocardiography in adult patients receiving tacrolimus or cyclosporine therapy
for prevention of acute GVHD. Bone Marrow Transplantation. 2001. (28), 1097-1103.
#2. J Storek, A Joseph, G Espino, M Dawson, D Douek, K Sullivan, M Flowers, P Martin, G
Mathioudakis, R Nash, R Storb, F Appelbaum, D Maloney. Immunity of patients surviving 20 to
30 years after allogeneic or syngeneic bone marrow transplantation. Blood. December 15, 2001.
Vol. 98, Number 13: 3505.
#3. J Storek, G Espino, M Dawson, B Storer, M Flowers, D Maloney. Low B cell and monocyte
counts on day 80 are associated with high infection rates between days 100 and 365 after
allogeneic marrow transplantation. Blood. November 1, 2000. Vol. 96, Number 9: 3290.
#4. Richard A. Nash,1 Alessandra Takatu,1 Ziding Feng,1 Sherrill Slichter,2 Kraig Abrams,2
German Espino, M. John Gass,1 George E. Georges,1 Peter A. McSweeney,1 Howard M.
Shulman,1 Rainer Storb1. Effect of c-mpl Ligands after Total Body Irradiation (TBI) with and
without Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Low-Dose TBI Does Not Prevent
Sensitization. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 8:360-367 (2002).
#5. Nina Worel 1,*, Andreas Buser 2,3, Hildegard T. Greinix 4, Hans Hägglund 5, Willis Navarro
6, Michael A. Pulsipher 7, Grazia Nicoloso de Faveri 8, Mats Bengtsson 9, Annelies Billen 10,
German Espino 11, Mirjam Fechter 12, Valeria Giudice 13, Kristina Hölig 14, Heiwa Kanamori 15,
Yoshihisa Kodera 16, Gerda Leitner 1, Tanja Netelenbos 17, Dietger Niederwieser 18, Suzanna
M. van Walraven 12,19, Vanderson Rocha 20, Tigran Torosian 21, Carmen Vergueiro 22, Daniel
Weisdorf 23, Hiromasa Yabe 24, Jörg P. Halter 3. Suitability Criteria for Adult Related Donors: A
Consensus
Statement from the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation Standing
Committee on Donor Issues. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 21 (2015) 2052
#6. Pessoa de Magalhaes, R, Crusoe, E, Riva, E, Bujan, W, Conte, G, Navaroo, JR, Garcia, D,
Quintero Vega, G, Macias, J, Oliveros Alvear, J, Royg, M, Neves, L, Lopez Dopico, JL, Espino,
G, Ortiz, D, Socarra, Z, Fantl, D, Ruiz Arguelles, G, Maiolino, A, Titsche de Moraes, V,
Harosseau, Jean, Durie, B. Analysis of Availability and Access of Anti-Myeloma Drugs and the
Impact on the Manasgement of Multiple Myeloma in Latin America Countries. Clinical
Lymphoma, Myeloma and Leukemia. Vol.19 (1). 2018
#7. Jaimovich, GMartinez Rolon, J; Baldomero, H ; Rivas, M; Hanesman, I ; Bouzas, L ; Bonfim,
C ; Palma, J; Kardus-Urueta, A ; Ubidia, D; Bujan-Boza, W ; Gonzalez-Ramella, O; Ruiz-
Argüelles, G; Gomez-Almaguer, D; Espino, G; Fanilla, E ; Gonzalez, D; Carrasco, A; Galeano,
S ; Borelli, G; Hernandez-Gimenez, M; Pasquini, M ; Kodera, Y; Gratwohl, A ; Gratwohl,
M ; Nuñez, J ; Szer, J ; Gale, R P; Niederwieser, D ; Seber, A .
Latin America: the next region for haematopoietic transplant progress. Bone Marrow
Transplantationvolume 52, pages671–677 (2017)