Urologist in Barcelona · Robotic surgery expert
Dr. Albert Carrión
Uro-oncology and robotic surgery specialist: bladder, prostate and kidney cancer, benign prostatic hyperplasia and urinary stones.
- European Urology Guidelines bladder cancer expert panel
- Accredited Da Vinci robotic surgeon
- PhD in Medicine, cum laude
- 50+ scientific publications
- Patients helped
- 200,000+
- Surgeries performed
- 10,000+
- Years of experience
- 15+
- Published articles
- 50+
International standing
A clinical, scientific and teaching career supported by leading institutions, multicentre research and participation in European clinical guidelines.
European Urology Guidelines
Since 2021, a member of the 17-expert international panel on muscle-invasive and metastatic bladder cancer; the only representative from Spain, according to Vall d’Hebron.
Vall d’HebronPioneering robotic surgery
He took part in Catalonia’s first robotic radical cystectomy with intracorporeal bladder reconstruction, performed in 2017.
Mi Tres Torres ClinicAward-winning international research
He led a European and US multicentre study on robotic ureteral stricture repair, recognised by the UB-HUB ABEX Chair in 2023.
Vall d’HebronThe specialist
About Dr. Carrión
Dr. Albert Carrión is a urologist at Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona, where he practises within the Urothelial Carcinoma Unit and the robotic surgery programme, and a urologist at the Serrate Ribal Urology Institute (Mi Tres Torres Clinic).
He trained at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, where he received the MSD award for best resident of his graduating class, and completed his training with a European Association of Urology scholarship at University College London Hospital. He holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (excellent cum laude) with a thesis on prognostic biomarkers in prostate cancer.
Since 2021 he has been a member of the European Urology Guidelines expert panel on muscle-invasive and metastatic bladder cancer — the panel's only representative from Spain — and since 2025 an Associate Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
In the media
News
El Nacional
“Bladder cancer is the great unknown”
Interview with Dr. Carrión on bladder cancer, its detection and the case of rally driver Nani Roma.
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Vall d'Hebron
Expert for the European Urology Guidelines
The only Spanish member of the European bladder cancer expert panel.
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Vall d'Hebron
ABEX Robotic Surgery Chair award
Recognised for the best urology publication with an international robotic surgery study.
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El País
Dr. Carrión, surgeon to Dakar rally driver Nani Roma
El País reports on Nani Roma's bladder tumour, treated at Vall d'Hebron with Dr. Carrión.
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