Biography

MD graduate at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (1993-99). PhD grade at the Universidad de Alcalá; Doctoral Thesis qualification: A cum laude, unanimously (2007). Consultant cardiologist at the University Hospital La Paz (Madrid).

Past-member of the Executive Committee of the Investigation Agency of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Past-president of the Clinical Cardiology group of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Member of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Member of the Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Drug Therapy Working Group and Heart Failure Association  of ESC. Member of Cardio-Oncology and stroke councils of ESC. Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Member of the working group of hypertension and cardiovascular disease of SEMERGEN (Spain).

Associate editor of “Cardiovascular disease today (Spain)”. Member of the editorial committee of “World Journal of Hypertension”, “ISRN Nephrology”, “Journal of Cardiology and Therapeutics”, “Clinical Journal of Cardiology in Primary Care (Spain)” and “Newsletter Cardiovascular Risk in Primary Care (Spain)”. Referee of several national and international peer-review journals.

Participation in several clinical trials and investigation projects in the fields of hypertension, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, acute coronary syndrome, pulmonary embolism and cardiometabolic disease.

Over 300 papers published about cardiovascular disease in national and international peer-review journals and over 50 chapters in Cardiology textbooks.