Professional Brief
Dr Maria Arque, MD, is a medical graduate of University of Barcelona (Hospital Clínic). She completed her specialty training in Obstetrics and Gyneacology at Hospital de Sant Pau i la Santa Creu in Barcelona, a reference hospital in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. She has done a clinical internship at Yale University in the US in the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility department.
She started her training in IVF in one of the main reproductive clinics of Barcelona and became the director of the Egg Donation program. She completed the Subfertility, Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction Theoretical Course at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gyneacology in London. She worked in Ireland for two years, at Sims IVF and Rotunda IVF, both belonging to the group Virtus Health, an international reference fertility group. She got involved with the National Fertility Preservation Program for Oncology patients and also regularly gave infertility lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland to undergraduate medical students.
She completed the Executive Leadership for Healthcare Professionals program at Cornell University.
Doctorate in Medicine (PhD) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona on Reproductive Medicine: Pilot study on the influence of diet and lifestyle on the results of IVF / ICSI (In Vitro Fertilization / Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection).
She is fluent in english, italian, spanish and catalan and has basic level of french.