Academic Education:
- Graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1984 from the University of Barcelona Autonomous.
- Specialist in Cardiovascular Surgery, residency held at the University Hospital La Pitié-Salpétrière in Paris, France during the period 1985-1990.
- Title of Qualified Specialist Physician in General Surgery by the Departmental Council of the College of Physicians of Paris in 1990.
- Title of the French College of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in 1991.
- Title of Competent Qualified Physician in Thoracic Surgery at the Departmental Council of the College of Physicians of Paris in 1993.
- Medical Specialist in Cardiovascular Surgery.
- Title of Fellow of the European Board of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons in 1999.
Scientific and Teaching Activity:
- Head of the Cardiac Surgery Service of the Bellvitge University Hospital in Barcelona.
- Assistant Chair of Surgery at the Universitat Pierre et Marie Curie Paris VI.
- President of the Catalan Society of Cardiac Surgery 2009-2011.
- Member of the Catalan Society of Surgery.
- Member of the Catalan Society of Cardiology.
- Member of the Board of the Spanish Society of Thoracic-Cardiovascular Surgery (SECTCV).
- Member of the European Association for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).
- Member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT).
- Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC).
- Collaboration in various research projects.
- 44 publications in International Magazines.
- 22 publications in National Magazines.
- Multiple communications in Meetings and Congresses (more than 150).