Skip to main content
2026 ASCRS Annual Scientific Meeting Main banner
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Presentation Icons
CME
CME
Invitation/Ticketed Event
Invitation/Ticketed Event
Invited Lectureship
Invited Lectureship
Award Recipient
Award Recipient
Live Streamed Session
Live Streamed Session
Nurses Contact Hours
Nurses Contact Hours
Self-Assessment
Self-Assessment
Live Q&A and Polling
Live Q&A and Polling
Social
Social
Industry
Industry

JUAN ANTONIO VILLANUEVA HERRERO, Sr., MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Chief of Anorectal Physiology Unit
Coloproctology Service. Hospital General de Mexico "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga"
UNAM
Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Dr. Juan Antonio Villanueva-Herrero is a board-certified general and colorectal surgeon with more than 20 years of clinical, academic, and research experience devoted to diseases of the colon, rectum, anus, and pelvic floor. He holds current certifications in both General Surgery and Coloproctology, and serves as a formative professor of new specialists at one of Latin America's leading referral centers.

As founder and Head of the Anorectal Physiology Unit of the Coloproctology Service at Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga" in Mexico City — established under his direction in 2014 — Dr. Villanueva leads one of the highest-volume referral centers of its kind in Latin America. The Unit performs more than 1,000 specialized studies per year, including high-resolution anorectal manometry, endoanal and transperineal (dynamic) ultrasound and pudendal nerve assessment, and supports a University-accredited (UNAM) postgraduate diploma program in Anorectal Physiology and Posterior Pelvic Floor, through which he has trained and mentored specialists from across the region.

He also serves as Coordinator of the Complex Anal Fistula Clinic, a dedicated multidisciplinary program for the evaluation and surgical management of recurrent, high, and Crohn's-related fistulas, integrating advanced imaging with sphincter-sparing techniques.

Dr. Villanueva serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Mexicana de Cirugía Colorrectal, Coordinator of the Exam Committee of the Mexican Board of Colorectal Specialists, member of the Pelvic Floor Committee 2026-2028 of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, member of the Bowel Dysfunction (Fecal Incontinence) Committee of the International Continence Society, and member of the Scientific Committee of the Latin American Pelvic Floor Association (ALAPP). He has contributed to multiple Mexican national Clinical Practice Guidelines, advised international trials and authored more than 1,100 scholarly citations in the field.

Presentation(s):

Email JUAN ANTONIO