Dr. JL Peiro is Professor of Surgery at University of Cincinnati Medical College and has a broad background in congenital anomalies research and clinical fetal surgery.
He did his medical school degree at Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), 1989, and his Pediatric Surgery training residence at Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, 1991-1995. Since 2002, Prof. Peiro began a European pioneer clinical fetal surgery program in Barcelona (Spain) and currently he maintains an active clinical practice in fetal surgery at the Cincinnati Children's Fetal Care Center being Director of Endoscopic Fetal Surgery, treating prenatally several fetal conditions. In the other hand, He’s coordinating research in different lines of fetal surgery in his Laboratory at the Center for Fetal and Placental Research in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
His main lines of research are fetal hydrocephalus, myelomeningocele/spina bifida, gastroschisis, and congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Other research interest also includes cell therapy and tissue engineering. His research group has developed several animal models for intrauterine correction of different fetal conditions and promotes translational research for human clinical application that allows him and Cincinnati to be in the clinical cutting-edge of fetal surgery.