Head of Internal Medicine
Director, Heart Failure & Vascular Risk Unit, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital Madrid, Spain Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Director, Centro de Apoyo a la Docencia, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
EDUCATION
- MD University of Granada, Spain
1991 PhD University Autónoma of Madrid, Spain
TRAINING
- Internal Medicine Residency, Puerta de Hierro Hospital, Madrid, Spain, Number 4 in the 1983 national MIR exam.
2014 Fellow of ESC
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989-1990 Staff Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Puerta de Hierro Hospital, Madrid, Spain
1989-1990 Research Coordinator, Laboratory of Investigation, Department of Internal Medicine, Puerta de Hierro Hospital, Madrid, Spain
1990-1996 Staff Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Príncipe de Asturias Hospital, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1990-1996 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Alcalá University, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1990-present Senior Research Member, Research Laboratory of the Department Medicine, Alcalá University, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1996-present Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1996-2004 Staff Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain
2004-present Director, Heart Failure & Vascular Risk Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
2007-2008 Honorary Consultant and Visiting Professor. Royal Brompton Hospital. Imperial College. London
2011-present Director, Centro de Apoyo a la Docencia en Ciencias de la Salud. University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Since 2004, as director of the Heart Failure & Vascular Risk, the principal area of interest and expertise are cardiovascular diseases in the elderly, particularly heart failure and peripheral arterial disease. We are also very interested in models of heart failure program management based on a permanent and integral follow up.
The research in the Laboratory of the Department of Medicine involves the pathophysiological role of the immune-inflammatory response in several clinical models. At this time we are focused about biological mechanisms implicated in atherosclerosis and heart failure
PUBLICATIONS
The clinical and experimental research has been published in more than 140 peer-reviewed journals, including Lancet, European Heart Journal, Journal of American College of Cardiology, BMJ, New England Journal of Medicine, European Journal of Heart Failure, International Journal of Cardiology, European Journal of Internal Medicine, American Heart Journal, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Atherosclerosis, Stroke, Hypertension, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Blood, Gastroenterology, Journal of Clinical Immunology, Hepatology, Gut, Journal of Hepatology, Cancer, British Journal of Cancer, Medicina Clínica, Revista Española de Cardiología, or Revista Clínica Española.
