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Soriano Arandes, Antoni
MSc, MD, Paediatrician
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunodeficiencies Unit
Unit of International Health-Tuberculosis Drassanes-Vall Hebron
Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona (Spain)
Avda Drassanes, 17-21
08001 Barcelona
Tel/Fax: 0034639712438
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Date of birth: 16.12.1966
Number of COMB (College for Medical Doctors in Barcelona): 28118
GMC number: 7163551
1. Professional qualifications
1985-1991: Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. Awarded with “B” level. Clinic Hospital of
Barcelona. University of Barcelona (Spain).
Post-Graduate training:
2014. ICH-GCP, Public Health Agency of Barcelona
2011. ICH-GCP, University of Oxford.
2010. MSc of Epidemiology. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. University of
London (UK).
2009. Postgraduate Diploma of Epidemiology. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
University of London (UK).
2005. Master of Tropical Medicine and International Health. University of Barcelona (Spain).
2003. Neonatology competence obtained on behalf of the Academy of Medical Sciences of
Catalonia and Balearic Islands.
1993-1996. Paediatrics and their specific fields. Hospital Clinic and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
University of Barcelona (Spain).
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Professional activity
2013-now: Paediatrician working at the Unit of International Health-Tuberculosis Drassanes-Vall
Hebron (Barcelona). University Hospital Vall Hebron, Barcelona (Spain). PROSICS Barcelona.
2012-now: Data Manager of NENEXP cohort for HIV-exposed and HIV-uninfected children
belonging to the Catalonian region hospitals network.
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2012: Paediatrician working in the Unit of Tropical Medicine and International Health of
Drassanes (Barcelona) and CAP la Pau of Barcelona city. ICS, Barcelona.
2011: Paediatric Clinical Research Fellow working for OVG conducting clinical vaccine trials. Prof.
A.J. Pollard. University of Oxford (UK).
2007-2011: Member of the paediatric department of the University Hospital Joan XXIII of
Tarragona (Spain). Skills:
• Senior consultant of paediatric infectious diseases and emerging diseases.
o Inpatient and outpatient clinics.
• Member of the Steering Committee of Infectious Diseases of the hospital.
• Responsible of the Unit of International Health.
2001-2007: Paediatrician at the Health Primary Centre of the Eixample in Barcelona (Spain).
2001. Paediatric department of the General Hospital of Vic (Barcelona).
1999-2004: Emergency paediatric ward at Dexeus University Institute of Barcelona (Spain).
1996-2000: Paediatric department of Hospital Comarcal of Alt Penedès (Barcelona-Spain).
1997. Paediatric Emergency Ward at Integrated Unity of Clinic Hospital-Saint John of God
Hospital, participating in the critical intensive care unit.
1997- 1998: Paediatrician of the Health Primary Centre of the Olympic Village in Barcelona
(Spain).
3. Teaching activity
2012-now: Coordinator and tutor of the paediatric module of PROSICS-IES-COMB Postgraduate
Course for International Health.
2010-2012: Coordinator and professor of the Paediatric module of the Máster of Tropical
Medicine (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona).
June-July 2010. Teaching the Course of Paediatric Emergency Department (Home MIR)
addressed the staff of ICS performed at the Hospital of Tarragona Joan XXIII. Dates: From
28/06/2010 to 09/07/2010.
October 2010. Teaching the Course of Infectious Diseases and International Health organized by
the Hospital San Juan de Dios (Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona) on 7 and 8 October 2010.
Topic: What take into account when a child travelling to the tropics?
October 2010. Teaching the Course of training Trainers in Chagas disease.
Barcelona, 19-22-26 October 2010. Department of Health. Generalitat of Catalonia.
March 2009. Teacher in the Update Course in Pathology of Adolescence addressed to the staff
of the ICS carried out in Primary Tarragona imparting 1.50 hours of teaching. Subject: Sexually
Transmitted Diseases. The Canonja 28 of March of 2009.
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December 2008. Clinical Guide for the management and treatment of the HIV infected
pregnant
woman, prevention of the vertical transmission and treatment of the
newborn. University Hospital Joan XXIII of Tarragona (Spain).
December 2007. Chagas disease. Experience in Brazil. University Hospital Joan XXIII of
Tarragona (Spain).
4. Research activity
4.1. Lines of research
HIV infection
Chagas disease
Tuberculosis
Vaccines
Pneumococcal infection
4.2. Post-doctoral stays as a visiting scholar in foreign universities or prestigious centres
October/November 2006: Attachment at the Parasitological and Chagas department of the
Hospital of Children “Ricardo Gutierrez” of Buenos Aires (Argentina).
March/May 2007: Attachment at the Fundaçao de Tropical Medicina do Amazonas. Manaus.
Brazil. Fellowship obtained from the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine Society and
International Health (SEMTSI).
June-August 2008. Attachment at CISM (Center of Investigaçao em Saúde de Manhiça) of
Moçambique. Fundació Clínic-AECI-Ministry of Saúde de Moçambique-Universidade Eduardo
Mondlane.
September-October 2014. Attachment at Red Cross Hospital (Cape Town, South Africa) visiting
PID and pediatric pneumology wards.
4.3. Connections with national or international research teams
Member and data manager of the NENEXP cohort group working in HIV infection and HIV
vertical transmission and belonging to the COHERE net (European cohorts of HIV).
Member of the Paediatric Cohort of Spanish AIDS Research Network (CoRISPe)
Member of the TropNetEurop group collecting surveillance data about imported tropical
diseases
Member of ESPID (European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases)
Member of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung diseases in the group of
Child Lung Diseases
Member of European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Member of Working Group For Developing The Catalonian Screening Programme For
Congenital Transmission Of Chagas Disease.
Menber of the Catalan study group of invasive pneumococcal disease
2012-now investigator at “Red de Investigación Colaborativa de Enfermedades Tropicales”
(RICET) de España.
2010-now investigator of “Red de Investigación del SIDA” (CoRIS) Spain.
4.4 Clinical trials
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Health Authority File Number: EudraCT #: 2013-001231-51
WHO Universal Trial Number (UTN): U1111-1127-7504
Protocol code: GQM05
Title: Efficacy and Immunogenicity Study of Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine Administered via the
Intramuscular Route in Healthy Children Aged 6 to 35 Months.
Sponsor: Sanofi-Pasteur SA.
Investigational Product: Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccine (split virion, inactivated)
Form / Route: Suspension for injection / Intramuscular or deep subcutaneous
Indication For This Study: Prophylaxis of influenza in children aged 6 to 35 months
Investigador & Centro/Hospital: Dra. Angels Jubert Rosich y Dra. María Espiau, Institut Catala de
la Salut.
CAP Guineueta y CAP Maragall, Barcelona (España).
Número de Pacientes: 30.
Fecha Inicio del Ensayo: 15-Sep-2014
Fecha Finalización del Ensayo: 31-Jul-2016
COORDINATOR IN BARCELONA.
5. Publications and articles
5.1. Chapters of medical and scientific books
2012. Chapter of book:
Soriano Arandes A. and Gómez Bertomeu F. Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis. “Current Topics in
Tropical Medicine” edited by Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, ISBN 978-953-51-0274-8, Hard cover,
564 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: March 16, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license.
Chapter 21 of the advanced guidelines for “Enfermedades Infecciosas de Pediatría de la Sociedad
Española de Infectología Pediátrica” (SEIP): "Severe helminthiasis".
5.2. Articles in scientific journals
Soriano Arandes A., Muñoz Gutierrez J., Vergés Navarro M., Castells Doménech C., Portús
Vinyeta M., Gascón Brustenga J.
Prevalence of Chagas disease in the Latin American immigrant population in a primary health
centre in Barcelona (Spain)
Acta Tropica 2009; 112: 228–230. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 2.519.
Jordi Rello, Emili Díaz, Alejandro Rodríguez, Diego de Mendoza, Thiago Lisboa, Ignacio MartínLoeches, Antonio Soriano.
Protocolo de manejo de la Insuficiencia Respiratoria Aguda Grave en pacientes con Neumonía
Viral Primaria por el nuevo virus de la GripeA (H1N1) en UCI.
http://www.msps.es/servCiudadanos/alertas/pdf/ProtocoloGripeAenUCI.pdf
Soriano Arandes A., Gómez Bertomeu F., Maldonado Artero J.
Microscopic image of the protoscolex of Echinococcus granulosus on the “hydatid sand”.
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010 Jun; 82(6):980. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0743. Tipo de publicación:
A. FI: 2.736.
César S., García A., Parada E., Soriano A.
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Cavernous sinus trombosis due to invasive communtiy-associated methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus infection.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2010 Dec; 28(10):755-6. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2009.12.012.Tipo de
publicación: A. FI: 1.881.
Veloso S, Peraire J, Viladés C, López-Dupla M, Escoté X, Olona M, Garcia-Pardo G, GómezBertomeu F, Soriano A, Sirvent JJ, Vidal F.
Pharmacogenetics of the Metabolic Disturbances and Atherosclerosis Associated with
Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Patients.
Curr Pharm Des. 2010 Oct;16(30):3379-89. Tipo de publicación: R. FI: 3.288.
Yebra G, de Mulder M, Martín L, Pérez-Cachafeiro S, Rodríguez C, Labarga P, García F, Tural C,
Jaén A, Navarro G, Holguín A; Cohort of Spanish AIDS Research Network (CoRIS).
Sensitivity of seven HIV subtyping tools differs among subtypes/recombinants in the Spanish
cohort of naïve HIV-infected patients (CoRIS).
Antiviral Res. 2011 Jan; 89(1): 19-25. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 3.434.
Collaborator in: No relationship between TNF-α genetic variants and combination antiretroviral
therapy-related lipodystrophy syndrome in HIV type 1-infected patients: a case-control study and
a meta-analysis. Veloso S, Olona M, Peraire J, Viladés C, Pardo P, Domingo P, Asensi V, Broch
M, Aguilar C, López-Dupla M, Aragonés G,Garcia-Pardo G, Sirvent JJ, Vendrell J, Richart C, Vidal
F; Hiv Lipodystrophy Study Group. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2011 Feb; 27(2):143-52. Epub 2010
Sep 20.
Basile L, Oliveira I, Ciruela P, Plasencia A; Working Group For Developing The Catalonian
Screening Programme For Congenital Transmission Of Chagas Disease.
The current screening programme for congenital transmission of Chagas disease in
Catalonia,Spain.
Euro Surveill. 2011 Sep 22; 16(38). pii: 19972. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 4.659.
Turon A, Jordan I, Bras C, Soriano A, Muñoz-Almagro C.
Pneumococcus induced haemolytic-uraemic syndrome and cholecystitis.
An Pediatr (Barc). 2011 Nov; 75(5):351-2. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 0.722.
Muñoz-Almagro C, Ciruela P, Esteva C, Marco F, Navarro M, Bartolome R, Sauca G, Gallés C,
Morta M, Ballester F, Raga X, Selva L; Catalan study group of invasive pneumococcal disease.
Serotypes and clones causing invasive pneumococcal disease before the use of new conjugate
vaccines in Catalonia, Spain.
J Infect. 2011 Aug; 63(2):151-62. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 4.017.
Pérez-Molina JA, Rodríguez-Guardado A, Soriano A, Pinazo MJ, Carrilero B, García-Rodríguez M,
Salas J, Torrús D, Soler-Ferrer C, Puente S, Haro-González JL, Martín-Rabadán P, Gascon J, On
Behalf Of The Chagas Study Group Of The Semtsi (Sociedad Española de Medicina Tropical Y
Salud Internacional).
Guidelines on the Treatment of Chronic Coinfection by Trypanosoma cruzi and HIV Outside
Endemic Areas.
HIV Clin Trials. 2011 Nov-Dec; 12(6):287-98. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 2.141.
Sobrino-Vegas P, Gutiérrez F, Berenguer J, Labarga P, García F, Alejos-Ferreras B, Muñoz MA,
Moreno S, del Amo J; CoRIS.
The Cohort of the Spanish HIV Research Network (CoRIS) and its associated biobank;
organizational issues, main findings and losses to follow-up.
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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2011 Nov;29(9):645-53. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2011.06.002. Epub 2011
Aug 5. Spanish. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 1.881.
Collaborator in: Use of early corticosteroid therapy on ICU admission in patients affected by
severe pandemic (H1N1)v influenza A infection. Martin-Loeches I, Lisboa T, Rhodes A, Moreno
RP, Silva E, Sprung C, Chiche JD, Barahona D, Villabon M, Balasini C, Pearse RM, Matos R, Rello
J; ESICM H1N1 Registry Contributors. Intensive Care Med. 2011 Feb; 37(2): 272-83.
Yebra G, de Mulder M, Martín L, Rodríguez C, Labarga P, Viciana I, Berenguer J, Alemán MR,
Pineda JA, García F, Holguín A; Cohort of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (CoRIS).
Most HIV type 1 non-B infections in the Spanish cohort of antiretroviral treatment-naïve HIVinfected patients (CoRIS) are due to recombinant viruses.
J Clin Microbiol. 2012 Feb; 50(2):407-13. doi: 10.1128/JCM.05798-11. Epub 2011 Dec 7. Tipo de
publicación: A. FI: 4.232.
Sobrino-Vegas P, Rodríguez-Urrego J, Berenguer J, Caro-Murillo AM, Blanco JR, Viciana P,
Moreno S, Bernardino I, del Amo J; CoRIS.
Educational gradient in HIV diagnosis delay, mortality, antiretroviral treatment initiation and
response in a country with universal health care.
Antivir Ther. 2012; 17(1):1-8. doi: 10.3851/IMP1939. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 3.143.
Hernando V, Sobrino-Vegas P, Burriel MC, Berenguer J, Navarro G, Santos I, Reparaz J, Martínez
MA, Antela A, Gutiérrez F, del Amo J; CoRIS cohort.
Differences in the causes of death of HIV-positive patients in a cohort study by data sources and
coding algorithms.
AIDS. 2012 Sep 10; 26(14):1829-34. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 6.557.
Masiá M, Pérez-Cachafeiro S, Leyes M, López-Aldeguer J, López M, Segura F, Blanco JR, Peña A,
Rodríguez F, Vera M, Del Amo J, Gutiérrez F; Grupo de estudio de riesgo cardiovascular de CoRIS.
Cardiovascular risk in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients in Spain. CoRIS cohort,
2011.
Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2012 Nov;30(9):517-27. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2012.02.014. Epub 2012 Apr
30. Spanish. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 1.881.
May MT, Hogg RS, Justice AC, Shepherd BE, Costagliola D, Ledergerber B, Thiébaut R, Gill MJ,
Kirk O, van Sighem A, Saag MS, Navarro G, Sobrino-Vegas P, Lampe F, Ingle S, Guest JL, Crane
HM, D'Arminio Monforte A, Vehreschild JJ, Sterne JA; Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort
Collaboration (ART-CC).
Heterogeneity in outcomes of treated HIV-positive patients in Europe and North America:
relation with patient and cohort characteristics.
Int J Epidemiol. 2012 Dec;41(6):1807-20. doi: 10.1093/ije/dys164. Epub 2012 Nov 12. Tipo de
publicación: A. FI: 9.197.
Monge S, Alejos B, Dronda F, Del Romero J, Iribarren JA, Pulido F, Rubio R, Miró JM, Gutierrez F,
Del Amo J; CoRIS.
Inequalities in HIV disease management and progression in migrants from Latin America and subSaharan Africa living in Spain.
HIV Med. 2013 May; 14(5):273-83. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12001. Epub 2012 Nov 21. Erratum in: HIV Med.
2014 Jan; 15(1):64. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 3.454.
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Salvador F, Treviño B, Sulleiro E, Pou D, Sánchez-Montalvá A, Cabezos J, Soriano A, Serre N,
Gómez I Prat J, Pahissa A, Molina I. Trypanosoma cruzi infection in a non-endemic country:
epidemiological and clinical profile. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2013 Nov 7. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12443.
Suárez-García I, Sobrino-Vegas P, Tejada A, Viciana P, Ribas M, Iribarren J, Díaz Menéndez M,
Rivero M, Arazo P, Del Amo J, Moreno S; Cohort of the Spanish AIDS Research Network (CoRIS)
study group.
Compliance with national guidelines for HIV treatment and its association with mortality and
treatment outcome: a study in a Spanish cohort.
HIV Med. 2014 Feb;15(2):86-97. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12078. Epub 2013 Sep 6. Tipo de publicación: A. FI:
3.454.
Soriano-Arandes A, Basile L, Ouaarab H, Clavería I, Gómez i Prat J, Cabezos J, Ciruela P, AlbajarViñas P, Jané M.
Controlling congenital and paediatric chagas disease through a community health approach with
active surveillance and promotion of paediatric awareness.
BMC Public Health. 2014 Nov 21; 14:1201. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1201. Tipo de publicación: A. FI:
2.321.
Marzolini C, Sabin C, Raffi F, Siccardi M, Mussini C, Launay O, Burger D, Roca B, Fehr J, Bonora S,
Mocroft A, Obel N, Dauchy FA, Zangerle R, Gogos C, Gianotti N, Ammassari A, Torti C, Ghosn J,
Chêne G, Grarup J, Battegay M; Efavirenz, Obesity Project Team on behalf of Collaboration of
Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe (COHERE) in EuroCoord.
Impact of body weight on virological and immunological responses to efavirenz-containing
regimens in HIV-infected, treatment-naive adults.
AIDS. 2015 Jan 14;29(2):193-200. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000530. Tipo de publicación: A. FI:
6.557.
Tebruegge M, Bogyi M, Soriano-Arandes A, Kampmann B; Paediatric Tuberculosis Network
European Trials Group.
Shortage of purified protein derivative for tuberculosis testing.
Lancet. 2014 Dec 6;384(9959):2026. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)62335-7. No abstract available.
Erratum in: Lancet. 2015 Jan 10;385(9963):e4. Tipo de publicación: L. FI: 39.207.
Roca Saumell C, Soriano-Arandes A, Solsona Díaz L, Gascón Brustenga J; Grupo de consenso
Chagas-APS.
Consensus document for the detection and management of Chagas disease in primary health
care in a non-endemic areas.
Aten Primaria. 2015 Feb 19. pii: S0212-6567(15)00005-0. doi: 10.1016/j.aprim.2015.01.002. [Epub
ahead of print] Spanish. Tipo de publicación: A. FI: 0.894.
Altet N, Dominguez J, de Souza-Galvão ML, Jiménez-Fuentes MÁ, Milà C, Solsona J, SorianoArandes A, Latorre I, Lara E, Cantos A, Ferrer MD, Orcau À, Ruiz-Manzano J, Caylà J.
Predicting the Development of Tuberculosis with the Tuberculin Skin Test and QuantiFERON
Testing.
Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2015 Feb 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Tipo de publicación: A.
Kurth F, Develoux M, Mechain M, Clerinx J, Antinori S, Gjørup IE, Gascon J, Mørch K, Nicastri E,
Ramharter M, Bartoloni A, Visser L, Rolling T, Zanger P, Calleri G, Salas-Coronas J, Nielsen H, JustNübling G, Neumayr A, Hachfeld A, Schmid ML, Antonini P, Pongratz P, Kern P, Saraiva da Cunha
J, Soriano-Arandes A, Schunk M, Suttorp N, Hatz C, Zoller T; Tropnet Severe Malaria Investigator
Group. Intravenous artesunate reduces parasite clearance time, duration of intensive care and
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hospital treatment in patients with severe malaria in Europe: the TropNet Severe Malaria Study.
Clin Infect Dis. 2015 Jul 17. pii: civ575. Impact Factor: 8.886; 5-Yr impact factor: 9.206.
6. Research projects receiving grants or funding
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MITOC European project studying the neurotoxicity of treatment for preventing MTCT
transmission in newborns (collaboration with the COHERE group)
NENEXP. Cohort of exposed-uninfected children born from HIV-infected pregnant woman.
FIPSE approved for period 2008-2011.
Multicentre project to investigate invasive pneumococcal infection in children. Setting:
Catalonia (Spain). Grupo de Estudio de la Enfermedad Invasiva Neumocócica en Catalunya.
Member of the TropNetEurop for the surveillance of imported diseases in Europe.
7. Talks and presentations at congresses
March 2014. Roundtable moderator in Chagas Workshop organized by ISGlobal, Barcelona, 6-7
March 2014.
November 2013. Posters at the WSPID Congress, Cape Town (South Africa) with following issues:
• EOSINOPHILIA, HYPER IGE AND PARASITES IN CHILDREN ATTENDED IN A TROPICAL
MEDICINE UNIT
• SCREENING PROGRAM OF CONGENITAL CHAGAS DISEASE (2010-2013):
IMPLEMENTATION AND ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE.
• HIV MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION COHORT STUDY FROM 2000 TO 2012 IN
CATALONIA (SPAIN): THE NENEXP PROJECT.
• BURDEN OF GIARDIASIS AS AN IMPORTED DISEASE IN TRAVELER CHILDREN
RETURNING FROM TROPICAL GEOGRAPHIC AREAS.
April 2012. Presentation at the IV Jornades Catalanas de Salud Internacional, organized by the
UMTSID of Barcelona (Spain): clinical case of fever in a returned child traveller. 11-12 of April 2012.
June 2011. Poster at ESPID Congress, 7-11 of June in the Hague (Netherlands), talking about an
outbreak of Serratia marcescens in a third level Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
June 2011. Presentation at the IV Jornades Catalanas de Salud Internacional, organized by the
UMTSID of Barcelona (Spain): Failure-to-thrive and eosinophily in a girl of Guinea Ecuatorial. 6
of June 2011.
November 2010. Poster at the 59th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene. Issue: Is the Risk of Plasmodium falciparum malaria increasing in very young children
who are visiting friends and relatives? Are their parents conscientious of this risk? Atlanta, 3-7
November 2010.
April 2010. Poster at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Spanish Society of Emergency Paediatrics.
“Impact, risk factors and radiologic pattern of influenza A in the emergency department of
Paediatrics”. Sevilla, 15, 16 and April 17, 2010.
March 2010. Poster at the Seventh Congress of the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine and
International Health (SEMTSI). "Diagnosis of loa-loa after mammography control”. Salamanca,
2-5 March 2010.
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September 2009. Posters at the 6th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International
Health and 1st Mediterranean Conference on Migration and Travel Health. 6-10 September 2009.
Verona (Italy):
• 4.14-116. Microscopic imaging findings of a hepatic hydatid cyst in a pediatric clinical
case.
• 4.11-073. Is visceral leishmaniasis underreported in the endemic Mediterranean
region?
April 2009. II Jornades Catalanas de Salud Internacional, organized by the UMTSID of Barcelona
(Spain): Visceral leishmaniasis. 2-3 of april 2009.
February 2009. Speaker at the 23rd Jornada de Pediatria Ambulatòria. Paediatric department of
Dexeus University Institute. “Chemoprophylaxis in paediatrics”. Barcelona, 21 February 2009.
December 2008. Poster at the 57th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene. “Ventricular Dysfunction in a probable myocardial tuberculosis paediatric case”. New
Orleans, 7-11 December 2008.
May 2008. Poster at the 15th Reunió Anual de la Societat Catalana de Pediatria. Berga, 16-17 May
2008: Vertical transmission of the HIV in Catalonia: multi-centric prospective study of the last 8
years. NENEXP group.
April 2008. Posters at the Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Española de Urgencias Pediátricas.
Murcia, April 2008: Fatal evolution of a paediatric pertussis infection case.
8. Courses and seminars
May 2007. Scientific Session in the Tropical Fundaçao de Medicina do Amazonas. Subject:
Prevalence of Illness of Chronic Chagas in immigrant population of Barcelona. 9 of May of 2007.
January 2007. Invited speaker at the III Meeting of Imported Chagas disease: vertical
transmission, paediatric Chagas disease and the chronic intestinal clinical presentation.
“Prevalence of the Trypanosoma cruzi infection in the paediatric population and in the immigrant
women of child-bearing age coming from South and Central America”.
9. Training Courses attended
March 2006. II Meeting “Chagas disease: a new challenge of Public Health”. 6 March 2006.
Barcelona.
May 2006. V Congress of the Spanish Tropical Medicine Society and Health the International.
SEMTSI. Tenerife from the 24 to the 26 of May 2006.
November 2006. Seminar of Methodology of Teaching. Barcelona.
January 2007. III Meeting on the Imported Chagas disease: vertical transmission, paediatric
Chagas and digestive chronicle form. Barcelona 22 of gener of the 2007.
March 2007. V Meeting of the Spanish Tropical Medicine Society and Health the International.
“Emergent virus”. Oviedo 9-10 March 2007.
May 2007. Course of Medical Entomology. Fundaçao de Tropical Medicina do Amazon. Manaus
(Brazil).
May 2007. 1st Symposium of Immunopathogenesis in Doenças Tropicais and Infecciosas.
Fundaçao de Tropical Medicina do Amazon. Manaus (Brazil).
September 2007. Centenary of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in London
(UK).
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December 2008. 57th Annual Meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Orleans, 7 to the 11 December of the 2008.
February 2009. V Meeting of “Imported Chagas disease: Vectorial transmission and neurological
complications” 09R04161. Barcelona 2 of febrer 2009.
February 2010. VI Workshop "Imported Chagas Disease: Transplant immunosuppression
and"Barcelona, February 1, 2010. Accredited by the Catalan Council for Continuing Medical
Education of the National Health System with 0.6 credits.
March 2010. VII Congress of the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health.
Salamanca, 2-5 March 2010.
April 2010. XIV Update Course on Vaccines 2010. 09/00834-MD record. Barcelona, April 2010.
Hospital Vall d'Hebron. Accredited by the Catalan Council for Continuing Medical Education of
the National Health System with 1.8 credits.
June 2010. Infection and Immunity in Children. Oxford (UK), 28-30 June 2010 at Keble College. 3
day course in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, awarded with 19.5 CPD points by the Royal College
of Paediatrics and Child Health.
July 2011. Infection and Immunity in Children. Oxford (UK), 14-16 July 2011 at St. Catherine’s
College. 3 day course in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, awarded with 19.5 CPD points by the
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
August 2011. ICH-GCP, University of Oxford.
10. Fellowships, grants and prizes awarded
2006. Fellowship of the Spanish Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health (SEMTSI)
for an attachment of 2 months at the Fundaçao de Medicina Tropical do Amazonas de Manaus
(Brasil).
11. Languages. English, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan languages.
12. Others: International Driver Licence.
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