Abbreviated CV

Academic and Professional Degrees:

1987-1993 Medical School. University of Navarra (Spain)

1995-1999 Specialist in Cardiology. Hospital Universitario Son Dureta (Spain)

2000 Fellowship in Echocardiography (H.U. Son Dureta)

2004 Expert’s degree in advanced echocardiography. WG of echocardiography of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.

2005 Master in Direction and Sanitary Management. European Institute for the Health and social well-being.

2009-2016 Professor associated in Telemedicine in the Opened University of Catalunya (Spain).

2011 Honorary clinical observer in the Inherited Cardiovascular Disease Unit. Heart Hospital London. 2010.

2012-2016 Professor in Health Law (Genetics and laws). University of Balearic Islands (Spain).

2014 Doctor in Medicine (phD). University of the Balearic Islands.

2017-2018 Professor and coordinator of the Master in Familial Cardiopathies. Spanish Society of Cardiology and Menendez-Pelayo International University.

2017: Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology.

2019: Professor of Cardiology at the School of Medicine of Balearic Islands University.

Employment and Positions

Present Position (from 2003): Head of Cardiology Department and Coordinator of an Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases Unit in Hospital Son Llatzer. Director of the MUSIB program (study of sudden cardiac death in young people in the Balearic Islands). 

Previous Positions:

2000-2001: Consultant Cardiologist. Hospital de Manacor. Manacor (Spain)

2000-2009: Consultant Cardiologist. Policlinica Miramar. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

2001-2003: Consultant Cardiologist. Hospital Son Llatzer. Palma de Mallorca (Spain)

2011-2015: Coordinator of the Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Institute. Policlinica Miramar. Palma de Mallorca (Spain).

Membership of Scientific Societies:

Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology

Member of the European Society of Cardiology

Member of WG of cardiomyopathies of the Spanish Society of Cardiology

Member of WG Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases of the European Society of Cardiology

Offices Held in Scientific Societies:

Member of the board of directors of the Clinical Cardiology Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2008-2014)

President of the Balearic Society of Cardiology (2012- 2014)

Member of the interregional Council of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2012-2014).

Member of the Governing Board of the Balearic Professional College of Physicians (2014-2018).

President of the Spanish Group in Inherited Heart Diseases and Cardiovascular Genetics of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2018-present).

Summary of Research:

-Presentations in Congresses (national and international): 130.

-First award for the best paper in the annual congress of the Balearic society of cardiology (2009): “Experience in an inherited cardiovascular diseases unit: evaluation of patients and familial screening. Study of penetrance and overall risk profile. Genetic analysis”

-Award “Damià Carbó 2014” from the “Balearic College of Physicians” for the best research work: “Discovery of a mutation in the TNNT2 gene causing a high incidence of sudden death from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in young people from a village in Majorca. Study of genotype-phenotype correlation and demonstration of a founder effect. Prevention strategies”.

-Award “Jean Dausset 2014” from the “Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of the Balearic islands”, for the best doctoral thesis.

-Lectures in national/international congresses or courses: >100.

-Principal Investigator of the “Balearic group of investigation in Inherited Cardiomyopathies, sudden death and TTR amyloidosis”.

-Subinvestigator of CIBER-OBN (research spanish network of obesity, exercise and nutrition, Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain): PREDIMED-2 study. Two research grants from Carlos III Institute.

-Other four research grants from the Spanish Society of Cardiology: Telemedicine and Electrocardiography (2004). National Registry in Familial Cardiomyopathies (2007). National Registry in Coronary Disease in women (2009), National Registry in Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloidosis (2018).

-Publications in peer-reviewed journals: 75 (12 as first author).

-Investigator in international clinical trials: 34 (7 as Principal Investigator: Trilogy ACS, Pegasus-TIMI 54, Themis, Tigris, ATTR-ACT Study, Mariner, Spire, Augustus).

Special interest in: 

-Inherited cardiomyopathies

-Cardiovascular genetics.

-Sudden cardiac death.

-Atrial fibrillation

-Pacemakers. 

-Clinical Cardiology.

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