Dr. Romina Pena is a junior attending surgeon at the Gastrointestinal Surgery Department, Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. She studied medicine in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to Barcelona, Spain for residency training, which she completed in 2019. She spent her first year as an attending at Hospital Clínic conducting a pilot project on microbiome in colorectal surgery. She continues her training as a colorectal surgeon, developing in minimally invasive and robotic surgery.  

She has co-authored publications on colorectal surgery and is a reviewer of the Cirugía Española journal. She has a Master’s Degree in Coloproctology by the Spanish association of surgeons (Asociación Española de Cirujanos) and recently became a board certified minimally invasive surgeon by the European Board of Surgery (FEBS/MIS). She is a member of the Spanish association of surgeons (Asociación Española de Cirujanos), Catalan surgical society (Societat Catalana de Cirurgia), European Association of Endoscopic Surgeons and the Young Division of the European Society of Coloproctology. Her main professional and scientific interests lie in colorectal surgery, minimally invasive surgery, and gut microbiome.

Dr. Pena is an active member of the AIS Channel Medical Team, developing medical content and a podcast for the platform.