{"id":2099,"date":"2025-11-20T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.doctorasantillanpalencia.es\/?page_id=2099"},"modified":"2026-10-07T17:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:57:12","slug":"curriculum-vitae","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.doctorasantillanpalencia.es\/en\/curriculum-vitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum vitae"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Curriculum vitae Dr. Isabel Santill\u00e1n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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My name is Isabel Santill\u00e1n Palencia. I became a gynecologist because I enjoy working with life and hope. My mother is also a gynecologist, and I have always loved medicine, ever since I was a little girl.<\/p>

I studied at the Complutense University of Madrid, and I found it hard to choose a specialty because I liked many of them. However, some aspects of medicine seemed sad to me, as they dealt almost exclusively with illness and death. That is why I chose gynecology and obstetrics. I always saw at home how rewarding it is for a professional to help a woman achieve her dream of becoming a mother.<\/p>

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I decided to do my residency at La Paz University Hospital because, at that time, it was the hospital with the highest number of deliveries. To get there, I had to compete against 10,000 other doctors and ranked 338th out of 10,000 in the MIR exam. The effort was worth it, and I was able to train with great professionals.<\/p>

At La Paz, I saw how much couples who wanted to become parents but could not were suffering. It was truly a very frustrating situation, and I decided to dedicate myself to helping them.<\/p>

In addition to being bilingual in English, I speak quite good German, so I obtained a scholarship to learn ovarian cortex cryopreservation at the University Hospital of Innsbruck. This way, girls with cancer could preserve their fertility despite chemotherapy. When I returned to Spain in 2007, I worked for 2 years as an attending physician at La Paz, where I obtained another scholarship to study why some women did not get pregnant because their immune system rejected the baby. I also worked at Montepr\u00edncipe University Hospital, and for 5 years I worked at Ginefiv, specializing in Assisted Reproduction and In Vitro Fertilization.<\/p>

In 2011, I completed my doctoral thesis on Immunology in Implantation, with the highest distinction (Sobresaliente Cum Laude). Since then, I have set up several Assisted Reproduction units, such as the EVA Clinics, where I was National Medical Director.
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