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Dr. Rodrigo Rocamora Zuniga is a renowned neurologist, head of the epilepsy department at HM Delfos Spain and professor at UPF university. He has a PhD from Bonn University, a specialization in neurology from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a medical bachelor from Mendoza school of medical in Argentina. He has also been part of neurology centers and hospitals, leading doctor of several professional organizations, and has published in various journals.

Dr. Joan Albanell Mestres is a highly experienced oncologist with an extensive educational and research background. He has completed his MBBS from University Autónoma de Barcelona and has led various research and oncology programs. He has published 120 articles in reputable journals with more than 9000 citations.

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

Dr Maria Arqué is a gynaecologist specialised in Reproductive Endocrinology and In with a Doctorate in Medicine. She has experience in integrative and functional medicine, nutrition, yoga, and mindfulness and is a lecturer, founder, and Medical Director at Gynnergy. She is a member of ESHRE and ASRM and speaks multiple languages.

Dr. Monica Aura is a highly-skilled doctor with a degree in Medicine and Surgery and Master's degrees in health center management and Human Assisted Reproduction. She has extensive professional experience, including as Medical Director at Fertty in Barcelona, Coordinator of the Assisted Reproduction Unit at Hospital Quirón Barcelona, and as an Assistant professor in the Master of Assisted Reproduction at UAB-Fertty. She is also an active member of the Donation and Genetics working group of the Spanish Fertility Society (SEF) and a member of the scientific committee of the assisted ction section of the Catalan Academy of Medical Sciences.

Miguel Angel Checa is an obstetrician, gynecologist and specialist in ctive medicine.

Education and professional experience

• Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona;
• is currently an assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona;
• is an active researcher. He contributed to the process of embryo freezing, which is currently used in many centers around the world.

Scientific activity

Miguel Angel Checa is the author of 36 scientific publications. He has lectured at universities in Catalonia, Spain, Europe, the USA, and Latin America.

Juan Jose Espinosa is a specialist in ctive 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 In in Madrid, St. Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey (USA).

Scientific activity

Juan José Espinós is the author of 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).

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).

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:

• 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).

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.