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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.

• Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona in 1973.
• Specialist in Pediatrics and specific areas from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1976.
• Accredited as a European specialist in pediatric allergology
• Specialist at the Allergy Service of the HM Nens Hospital.
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  10 publications in scientific journals.
  64 communications and presentations.
  6 participations in clinical trials.
• Specialist in Pediatric Allergology, respiratory allergies, food allergies, skin allergies, and General Pediatrics.
• Diseases treated: Urticaria, respiratory allergies, pediatric asthma, bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis.

His services include: Allergology Visits, Forced Spirometry, Spirometry, Parenteral Immunotherapy, Parenteral Immunotherapy with extracts of Hymenoptera, Allergy prick tests, Allergy tests, Bronchodilation tests , Specific Bronchial challenge tests, and Food Challenge tests.

Diseases Treated: vigorexia, sports injuries, muscular alterations, osteochondrosis, sprains, rhabdomyolysis, plantar fasciitis, obesity.

Services Offered: Pediatric control, First Pediatric visit, School medical examination, Pediatric check-up, Check-up visit, Sports Medicine visit, Treatment visit, Successive Sports Medicine visits, Emergencies Pediatric, Repeat visits Pediatrics.

ACADEMIC TRAINING

• Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University Foundation of Health Sciences - San José Hospital - San José University Children's Hospital (2002-2007).
• Official recognition of a Spanish degree, degree in medicine (2008).
• Master's in Child Health - University of Barcelona (2010-2013).
• University Expert Degree in Pediatric Emergencies, Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir (2014-2015).
• Via Specialist (MIR) Resident Medical Intern in Physical Education and Sports Medicine, University of Barcelona, ​​High Performance Center (CAR) San Cugat, (2015-2018).
• Master in Pediatric Nutrition, University of Granada (2016-2018).
• Certificate in Sports Nutrition, Barça Innovation HUB Universitas (2019-2020).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Medical Staff of Guards in Hospital HM Nens (2012-Present).
• Pediatric Emergency Assistant at HM Nens Hospital (2017-Present).
• Sports Medicine Unit Coordinator at HM Nens Hospital (2017-Present).

TEACHING AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

• Member of:
  • Catalan Society of Pediatrics
  • Spanish Association of Pediatrics
  • Catalan Society of Sports Medicine
  • The Spanish Society of Sports Medicine SEMED-FEMEDE
  • Sports Medicine Committee of ALAPE (Latin American Association of Pediatrics)

AREA OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST

Create and participate in projects and clinical sessions to promote and prevent health through healthy habits such as physical activity and nutrition. Fundació Hospital de Nens de Barcelona Scholarship for research project, As Principal Investigator (PI) "Evaluation of the effectiveness of physical activity in the Loss of BMI in overweight and obesity in children and adolescents."

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1984)
• Specialist in Pediatrics and specific areas via MIR. Sant Joan de Deu Hospital (1989).
• Associate Physician of the Pediatric Endocrinology Section of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (1994-2014).
• Clinical Director of the Diabetes Unit of the Endocrinology Section of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (2008-2014).
• Member of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (SEEP).
• Member of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD).
• Member of the Spanish Diabetes Society (SED).
• Coordinator of the Diabetes Working Group of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Endocrinology (SEEP).
• Principal investigator and co-investigator of clinical research projects at the national and international level.
• Professor of the Master's Degree in Child and Adolescent Endocrinology at Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. UB
• Coordinator of the Endocrinology Service of the HM Nens Hospital in Barcelona (since 2014).

Experience

On his return from London, he organized and directed the Arrhythmia Unit of the Cardiology Service of the Nuestra Señora del Pino University Hospital in Las Palmas until the year 2000.

Later he was associate head of the Arrhythmia Unit and Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid.

Professor of Cardiology at the Autonomous University and Fellowship Program Director of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (Heart Rhythm Society) positions that he held for 6 years until his transfer to the Quirónsalud Madrid University Hospital in 2006.

Dr. Cabrera has been the head of the Cardiology service at the Quirónsalud Madrid University Hospital since the hospital began operating in 2006.

Since January 2013, he is also head of the Cardiology Unit of the Ruber Juan Bravo Hospital Complex and in 2022 head of service of the new Olympia center.

He is a professor at the European University of Madrid where he directs the Chair of Clinical and Basic Translational Cardiology.

Title

Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada. He completed his post-graduate training as an interventional cardiologist in the Arrhythmia Unit (cardiac Electrophysiology laboratory) of the Fundación Jiménez Díaz in Madrid since 1994 -1996.

Senior Research Fellow. at the National Heart & Lung Institute. Royal Brompton. Paediatric Cardiac Morphology under the direction of Prf. Robert H Anderson in London (UK) during the year 1997.

ACCESS TO SPECIALIST MEDICAL TRAINING

Through MIR exam carried out in the 1984-85 academic year, obtaining a place with order number 74, in ORAL AND MAXILOFACIAL SURGERY.

REALIZATION OF THE RESIDENCE

As Resident Internal Physician at the Hospital de la SS."La Paz" in Madrid in the Specialty of ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY during the years 1985-1990.

WORK CARRIED OUT AS A SPECIALIST MEDICAL

On February 1, 1990, he was hired as Interim Area Specialist Physician in Maxillofacial Surgery at the Hospital de la SS."La Paz" in Madrid.

On 05/16/2005 appointment of F.E.A. Statutory Fixed

On January 1, 2007, appointment of Head of Section by Opposition Competition.

On February 1, 2009, appointment as Head of the Maxillofacial Surgery Service at Hospital Sanitas "La Moraleja".

On January 1, 2013, he was appointed Head of Service at Hospital Sanitas "La Zarzuela".

On January 1, 2017, appointment of Head of Service of the "Ruber Juan Bravo" hospital complex of the Quirónsalud Group.

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.

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

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:

• 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.