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Head of the Department of Neurosurgery in the HM Hospitales Clinic

Head of Endocrine Surgery Department

Dr. Blanco is an experienced pediatric cardiac surgeon specializing in cardiovascular surgery with extensive academic and professional experience, including positions as Head of the UCC and Head of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Services at various hospitals.

Dr. Gontrand Lopez-Nava is a leading Spanish physician specializing in endoscopic techniques for obesity treatment and works as the Director of the Department for Endoscopic Treatment of Obesity at HM Hospital Universitario Sanchinarro, as well as an assisting physician of the emergency care unit. He is a Professor of Medicine at CEU San Pablo University, Madrid, and a member of several medical societies.

Dr. José Angel Obeso is a world renowned neurologist with over 40 years of experience and 30 years of research in movement disorders. He is the founder of the first specialized Movement Disorders Group of the Spanish Neurology Society and has developed Continuous Dopaminergic Stimulation for Parkinson's disease. He has authored over 350 research articles, and is a member of the American Neurological Association and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.

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.
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• 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.

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 (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:

• 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 (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).

Dr. Julio Valle Muñoz has a degree in medicine and surgery, and is a specialist in the digestive system. Associate Physician of the Digestive System Service of the Virgen de la Salud Hospital in Toledo. In addition, he has worked for several years as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University Hospital of Helsinki (Finland), where he obtained the degree of Doctor of Medicine.

Physician Specialist in Pediatric Cardiology. Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, since 2000.

Specialist in fetal echocardiography since 1993.

At the HM Montepríncipe University Hospital since February 2007.

Head of Hospitalization since September 2014. Consultation and emergency care in a pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery team located 24 hours a day in clinics in Madrid (Belén, San Francisco de Asís, San José, Moncloa, Virgen del Mar, Milagrosa, Nuevo Parque, Rosario and Santa Elena), without interruption since December 1991.