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Juan Jose Espinosa is a specialist in reproductive medicine.

Education and professional experience

• Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona;
• completed an internship in obstetrics and gynecology at Santa Cruz Hospital;
• worked at the Institute of Infertility in Madrid, St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey (USA).

Scientific activity

Juan José Espinós is the author of 27 medical publications.

A frontier settler in reconstructive breast surgery with over 45 years of experience. The founder of the Instituto Pérez de la Romana.

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).

Dr. Gontrand López-Nava Breviere is a medical specialist in Gastroenterology and Endoscopy at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid (1993 to 1997), and Professor of Medicine at the San Pablo CEU University in Madrid. 

Founder and Head of Service of the Department of Digestive System and Endoscopy of the Hospital San Rafael and the Hospital Universitario Sanchinarro (2007-2010).

Founder and Director of the Department of Bariatric Endoscopy of the Hospital Universitario Madrid Sanchinarro (2010-act). 

Doctor of Medicine from CEU San Pablo University in 2015

Education:

• Complutense University of Madrid (2016): PhD in Psychology. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Victims, PhD Thesis. Cum Laude.
• Complutense University of Madrid: Master of Clinical and Health Psychology.
• Spanish School of Psychotherapy (2009): Expert in psychotherapy and psychodrama.
• University of Salamanca (2007): Bachelor's Degree in Psychology

Professional Experience:

• Head Coordinator of HM Hospital Psychology Unit (2021-present).
• College Professor at Camilo Jose Cela University (2023-present).
• LISA Institute Security Education: Coordinating Professor of the Course: Prevention of Psychological Disorders in Victims of Terrorism (2018-present).

Licenses and Certifications:

• Member of the Spanish Society of Clinical and Health Psychology (SEPCYS).
• Member of the Official College of Psychologists of Madrid.

• Ophthalmologist at Aranaz Salud, Arturo Soria, Madrid (2021 - present).
• Glaucoma Section at the University Hospital of Fuenlabrada, Madrid (2019-present).
• Ophthalmology Service at Hospital HM Puerta del Sur, Madrid (2020 - present).
• MIR of Ophthalmology at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital, Madrid (2015-2019).

Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist, currently specializing in Pathology. Interested both in epidemiological thinking and population health, as well as in understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of disease. 

HM Puerta del Sur: Full-Time Pathologist

Education:

• University de Santiago de Compostela: Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), Medicine (2006-2012)
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Master of Public Health - MPH, Public Health (2013-2015)

Professional Experience:

• Puerta De Hierro University Hospital Majadahonda: Gynecologist (2022-Present).
• Madrid Health Services (SERMAS): Professor teaching MIR-EIR (2018-Present); Gynecologist (2020).
• Hospital HM Puerta del Sur: Gynecologist and Obstetrician (2020-2023).
• Hospital Puerta de Hierro: Gynecologist - MIR Residence of Gynecology and Obstetrics (2016-2020).

Education:

• IMF Smart Education: Master in Digital Health, Health and Innovation - Master in Digital Transformation of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Environments (2019-2020).
• IMF Smart Education: MBA in Health Management, Business Administration and Management (2017-2018).
• Universidad Rey Juan Carlos: Degree in Medicine (2009-2015).
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Degree in Psychology, Clinical and Health Specialty from the Complutense University of Madrid. Master's Degree in General Health Psychology from the Francisco de Vitoria University. University Specialist in the Treatment of Obesity and Eating Disorders from the National University of Distance Education.

Psychologist Responsible for Almirall's "From the Skin to the Soul" Project at the Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda University Hospital. Responsible for Group Workshops on Relaxation Techniques and Mindfulness in private practice.

Currently works as an adult psychologist at the Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology Service at the HM Puerta del Sur University Hospital, a psychologist at the Aviation Medicine Unit of the HM-Gabinete Velázquez Polyclinic, and a psychologist at the Diabetes Unit at the HM Montepríncipe Hospital. Collaborating Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the San Pablo CEU University, along with a working private practice.

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.

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.

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.

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).