Page 6 - Treatment in Barcelona (Spain)

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1999-2005).
• Subspecialist Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Joan de Déu Hospital (2010-2012).
• Medical specialist in Pediatrics and its specific areas at the Albacete University Hospital Complex (2006-2010).
• Studying the PhD of Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona Autonomous (2019-present).

Professional Experience:

• Pediatric Cardiologist at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2012-2018).
• Head of Service of the Cardiology Department at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2018-present).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Member of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), the Spanish Society of Pediatrics (SEP) and the Catalan Society of Pediatrics (SCP).

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Area of excellence: Preventive Cardiology in cardiovascular diseases.
• Research lines: Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with pathology or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Role of the microbiota as a regulatory factor in obesity and metabolic disease.
• Doctoral Thesis: Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.
• Kawasaki Disease: Member of the Asenkawa Medical Advisory Team (Association of Parents of Kawasaki Disease).

Academic Education:

• Degree in Medicine.
• Doctor in Medicine.
• FESC.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona.
• Multiple publications in national and international magazines.
• Directed various theses.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Idiopathic heart disease.
• Structural heart disease (valvular, anatomical defects, etc.).

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1994-2000).
• Specialist in Internal Medicine at the Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona (2001-2006).
• Master's Degree in "Management of Programs for the Prevention, Surveillance and Control of Infections Related to the Health System", 2010/2011 edition by the Fundación IL3 of the University of Barcelona.
• Own Master's Degree in "Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Treatment", 2015/2016 edition by the CEU - Cardenal Herrera University.
• Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona (2021). Title: Resistant Enterobacteriaceae causing febrile urinary tract infection: Risk factors and role of out-of-hospital parenteral antibiotic treatment.

Professional Experience:

• Associate of the Emergency Department of the Hospital de Barcelona (2006-2007).
• Associate of the Internal Medicine Service of the Hospital de Martorell (2007-2009).
• Associate of the Internal Medicine Service of the Fundació Hospital de l'Esperit Sant de Santa Coloma de Gramenet (2009-2020).
• Associate of the Internal Medicine Service of the General University Hospital of Catalonia (2020-2021).
• Director of the Internal Medicine Service of the HM Nou Delfos Hospital (2021-act).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Teaching collaborator of Medicine at the University of Barcelona (2009-2020).
• Teaching collaborator of Medicine at the International University of Catalonia (2021).
• Member of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) and the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Community infectious pathology and related health care.
• Tuberculosis.

Academic Education:

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. University of Barcelona.
• Doctor in medicine. University of Barcelona. Extraordinary prize for doctoral thesis.
• Training in translational research thanks to a post-doctoral stay at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, USA).

Professional Experience:

• Medical Oncologist specialized in urological cancer. Her areas of expertise are prostate cancer, kidney, bladder and urinary tract cancer, and testicular cancer.
• She currently works as a Senior Consultant in the Medical Oncology Service of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, ​​where she is responsible for urological cancer. 
• At HM Delfos, from Medical Oncology, she is responsible for the care of patients with urological cancer, from a multidisciplinary approach in coordination with the different specialists (urology, radiotherapy, pathology) through joint work and the Tumor Committee. She is also responsible for the introduction of new therapies and the development of clinical trial projects in this area.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Associate Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the Clinical Hospital. University of Barcelona. 
• Teaching in the subject of Medical Oncology, of the 5th year of the Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona. She has been the director of several Final Degree projects for medical students in ​​urological cancer.
• Teacher and Director of the subject "Prostate Cancer" of the Master of Biomedicine. University of Barcelona.
• Teacher and Director of the subject "Comprehensive management of the uro-oncological patient", of the Master of Uro-Oncology of Advanced Medical Competences. University of Barcelona. 
• Direction of several doctoral theses on prostate cancer.
• Extensive experience in the training of Residents in Medical Oncology at the Clinical Hospital de Barcelona.
• Extensive teaching experience in scientific courses and symposiums.
• Internship tutor for students of the Master in Art Therapy at Escuela Metáfora. Art therapy in cancer patients at Hospital Clinic.
• Coordinator of Mindfulness training workshops in Oncology.
• Clinical research:   Extensive experience as principal investigator of multiple clinical trials, phase I, II and III, of new therapies in urological cancer.
• Translational research: Researcher at the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS). Leader of the Prostate Cancer working group, within the Translational Genomics Laboratory and Targeted Therapy in Solid Tumors. Her fundamental line of research is based on the investigation of resistance mechanisms to prostate cancer treatments and the study of biomarkers that allow progress towards personalized medicine in this disease.
• She has published more than 140 scientific articles in international journals.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Her interest as a professional is to provide the best care for patients with urological cancer from all areas: the best care on an individual basis and offer them the best available treatment or the possibility of having access to new treatments within clinical trials. 
• In addition, she has a great interest in promoting comprehensive care for patients and their families.

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona 1984.
• Medical specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation via MIR carried out at the Bellvitge University Hospital. Barcelona 1990.

Professional Experience:

• Physician Specialist Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 1991. Barcelona Nord Elementary.
• Optional Emergency Specialist at Bellvitge Hospital 1991-1992.
• Assistant physician Rehabilitation Service at Bellvitge Hospital1991-2019.
• Optional Costa Ponent Primary Specialist 1991-2019.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Teaching collaborator of Residents of the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Bellvitge Hospital (1991-2019).
• Professor of the SEMOYM Courses (Spanish Society of Orthopedic and Manual Medicine). Member of the board of directors and currently a teacher in the courses.
•  
• Medical Societies: Catalan Rehabilitation Society. Catalan Pain Society.
• SERMEF (Spanish Society of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine). Osteoporosis Task Force. Pain work group.
• GREC: Scoliosis Study Group of the Catalan Rehabilitation Society.
• Director and organizer of the VII Training Course in Orthopedic and Manual Medicine (MOM). Hot Topics in MOM of the lumbar spine and infiltrations June 2019.
• Presentations made in national and international congresses, the majority on pathology of the spine, Orthopedic and Manual Medicine, interventional techniques of the spine, myofascial pain, and Osteoporosis.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Interventionism in pathology of the Spine. 
• Orthopedic Medicine and Manual.
• Neural Therapy.
• Osteoporosis.

The doctor is a specialist in reproductive medicine with extensive experience in obstetrics and gynecology. Graduating from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, the doctor completed an internship at Santa Cruz Hospital. The doctor has worked at the Institute of Infertility in Madrid and St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey, USA.

In addition to clinical practice, the doctor has contributed significantly to scientific research, authoring 27 medical publications.

Academic Training:

Graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid and specialist in Cardiology at the University Hospital October 12 in Madrid. During her residency, she completed an external rotation in cardiac MRI and CT at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, under the supervision of Dr. Weinsaft.

After the residence, she completed two years of subspecialization focused on Cardiac Imaging, at the October 12 Hopital and at HM Hospitals, under the supervision of Dr. Fernández Friera and Dr. Solís.

Professional Experience:

As a cardiologist, Dr. Belen Diaz Anton has developed her activity in prestigious public and private centers, her area of ​​specialization being cardiac imaging. In this field, she is accredited in transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography by the European Society of Cardiology (EACVI) since 2015.

Dr. Belen Diaz Anton is currently part of the Comprehensive Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (CIEC) and the Cardiac Imaging Unit of HM Hospitals. Her activity is focused on performing three-dimensional transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography, offering special support to cardiac interventionism and surgery. In addition, she holds specific valve disease consultations. Within the cardiac imaging unit, she performs cardiac resonance and coronary AngioCT.

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

Dr. Belen Diaz Anton collaborates as a teacher at the San Pablo CEU University through specialized courses in cardiac CT.

Outstanding research career with more than 10 articles published in prestigious national and international journals in recent years and multiple communications to congresses.

Since 2016, she has been developing a line of research in Cardio-Oncology in patients with breast cancer (Winning project of the first intramural R+D+i call for emerging groups awarded by the HM Hospitals foundation).

Dr. Francisco Javier Parra Jimenez collaborated with the Cardiology Service of the General University Hospital of Guadalajara from January to November 1999. He started working in the HM Hospital group in January 1999 with Dr. D. Manuel de Artaza until 2007, when he was appointed Head of the Cardiology Service at the HM Sanchinarro University Hospital.

At the present time he holds the position of Head of the Clinical Cardiology Service of HMCIEC (Comprehensive Center for Cardiovascular Diseases) of HM Hospital, where he carries out his work as a doctor and maintains his Clinical Cardiology practice at the HM Montepríncipe, Sanchinarro and Madrid Centers.

Dr. Francisco Javier Parra Jimenez also coordinates the activity of more than 30 clinical cardiologists and about 20 people dedicated to nursing activities.

Academic Education:

• Graduated in Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1999-2005).
• Subspecialist Master’s degree in Pediatric Cardiology at St. Joan de Déu Hospital (2010-2012).
• Medical specialist in Pediatrics and its specific areas at the Albacete University Hospital Complex (2006-2010).
• Studying the PhD of Pediatrics at the University of Barcelona Autonomous (2019-present).

Professional Experience:

• Pediatric Cardiologist at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2012-2018).
• Head of Service of the Cardiology Department at the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (2018-present).

Scientific and Teaching Activity:

• Member of the Association for European Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC), the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease (SECPCC), the Spanish Society of Pediatrics (SEP) and the Catalan Society of Pediatrics (SCP).
• Award for the best communication of the XIII National Congress of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiopathies (2020).
• Juan V Comas 2019 scholarship for the research project Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.

Areas of Professional Interest:

• Area of excellence: Preventive Cardiology in cardiovascular diseases.
• Research lines: Cardiovascular risk in adolescents with pathology or a family history of cardiovascular disease. Role of the microbiota as a regulatory factor in obesity and metabolic disease.
• Doctoral Thesis: Evaluation of early changes in the myocardium and cardiovascular system of adolescents with severe obesity.
• Kawasaki Disease: Member of the Asenkawa Medical Advisory Team (Association of Parents of Kawasaki Disease).

The doctor is an experienced oncologist recognized for successful breast cancer treatments. He holds an MBBS from University Autónoma de Barcelona and completed his residency at Clinic Vall d'Hebron. He conducted significant research on telomerase in New York.

He is the head of the breast cancer program at HM Delfos and leads Oncology services at Clin del Mar in Spain. As the director of the cancer research program at Del Mar, he is a prominent member of GEICAM, CIBERONC, AIECA, and SEOM. The doctor has published 120 articles in reputable journals, amassing over 9000 citations.

The doctor is an experienced practitioner at Hospital HM Nou Delfos, specializing in family medicine. With a focus on providing comprehensive health care to patients of all ages, the doctor is highly trained in the latest medical technologies. This expertise ensures a high standard of care, characterized by a caring and compassionate approach.

The doctor is a distinguished neurologist specializing in epilepsy, currently leading the epilepsy department at HM Delfos Hospital in Spain. With a PhD from Bonn University and a specialization in neurology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the doctor has extensive experience in treating neurological disorders.

As a professor at UPF University, the doctor has contributed significantly to the field through research and publications on topics such as cognitive impairments in Alzheimer patients and drug-resistant epilepsy. The doctor is actively involved in professional organizations like SEN and the European Reference Network.

The doctor is an obstetrician, gynecologist, and specialist in reproductive medicine. Graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, the doctor is currently an assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. An active researcher, the doctor has contributed to the process of embryo freezing, a technique widely used in centers globally.

The doctor has authored 36 scientific publications and has lectured at universities across Catalonia, Spain, Europe, the USA, and Latin America.

The doctor is a gynaecologist specializing in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, with a Doctorate in Medicine from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She integrates functional medicine, nutrition, yoga, and mindfulness into her practice for a comprehensive approach.

Her professional journey includes clinical observerships at Yale University and IRCAD in Strasbourg. She is the founder and Medical Director of Gynnergy and lectures at the Master of Human Reproductive Medicine and Master of Functional Fertility programs.

She is a member of ESHRE and ASRM, contributing to advancements in reproductive medicine.