Dr. Joaquim Fernández Solà

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Medical Senior Consultant of Internal Medicine in barnaclínic + (2007 - present)
• Coordinator of the Chronic Fatigue Care Unit. Optional reference of assistance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (2004 - present)
• Senior Consultant at the Institut Clínic de Medicina i Dermatologia (ICMiD) (today)
• Member of the Management Committee of ICMiD (2014 - present)
• Quality Assurance Coordinator of ICMiD (2003 - present)
• Member of the Assistance Quality Improvement Committee of the Hospital Clínic (2003 - present)
• Coordinator of the ICMiD Security Nucleus (2016 - present)
• Accreditation of the Chronic Fatigue Unit by CatSalut under specific verification program (2017)
• Medical Consultant of Internal Medicine (2002 - 2006)
• Medical Specialist Séniro of Internal Medicine (1997 - 2001)
• Deputy Medical Internal Medicine (1991 - 1997)
• Coordinator of various protocols for patient care with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia
• Member of the Strategic Group of Hospital Nutrition, Strategic Plan Hospital Clínic for the improvement of hospital nutrition (2016 - 2020)
• Promoter from the Group of Experts of the Health Department of the Creation of the Functional Unit of Central Sensitization Syndromes. Implementation in the field of Catalonia.
• Collaborator in the clinical validation of the QEESI questionnaire of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Optional care reference in attention to multiple chemical sensitivity (2009 - present)
• Optional of hospital reference in Organic Diseases due to alcohol consumption

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 Sub-specialties

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Fibromyalgia

 Teaching posts

• Member of the Board of the Hospital Clínic (2007 - present)
• Coordinator of the Research Group on Muscular and Cardiac Diseases due to Alcohol, IDIBAPS
• Teaching Director in the Continuing Education Program in Chronic Fatigue for Primary Care (2005 - 2012)
• Regular participation in teacher training and evaluation of residents in the last 5 years
• Supervision of 2-3 external rotating per year in stays in Internal Medicine
• Associate Professor of the Master of Biochemistry, at the University of Barcelona (1995)
• Associate professor in the Master of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue, of the International University of Catalonia (2004)
• Member of the Final Master's Labor Court of the Universitat de Barcelona (2012 - 2016)

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1981)
• Internal Medicine specialist
• Doctor in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona, ​​with the doctoral thesis entitled: "Alcoholic cardiomyopathy, clinical-morphological correlations" (1989)
• Co-author of the patent "Bioxip for identification of differential genetic profiles in severe forms of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome" (2008)
• Member of the Working Group for recommendations for improvement of the clinical report in discharge, Internal Medicine Service (2016 - 2017)
• Principal investigator in 10 funded official research projects
• Collaborating researcher in more than 23 official funded research projects
• Principal investigator in 11 unofficial research projects
• Collaborating researcher in 7 unofficial research projects

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 Publications and conferences

• Coordinator of Cuadernos de Buena Paxis - Protocol of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, of the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona
• Participation in the CatSalut Protocols in the Operational Plan of care for people affected by the sensitization syndromes center: fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome
• Co-author of the protocols - AQUAS of attention to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome of Catalonia (2017)
• Monthly participation in the meetings of the Management Committee of the ICMiD in the analysis of care variables and implementation of proposals for improvement of care (2004 - 2017)
• Author of more than 70 international articles and specialty scientists
• Author of more than 30 national articles and specialty scientists
• Author and co-author of more than 11 articles published in scientific journals
• Author of more than 30 specialty letters and scientific notes
• Speaker at numerous congresses and presentations of the specialty
• Author and co-author of various chapters of specialty book

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 Prizes and awards

• UB Extraordinary Prize (1981)
• Premi-Borda of the Menéndez y Pelayo International University. Course: "Health and society" (1984)
• Premi Ajud to do a scientific stay of Postgraduate in Montreal, Canada, CRIT (Generalitat de Catalunya) (1987)
• Prize of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine for the communication "Histological correlation between skeletal and cardiac muscle injuries in chronic alcoholic patients", at the XIX SEMI Congress (1990)
• Accreditation of the Farreras-Valentí prize for communication at the IV Catalan Congress of Internal Medicine: "Histological correlation between alcoholic myopathy and myocardiopathy" (1990)
• Ajud CIRIT Prize (Generalitat de Catalunya), for scientific stay at the NIH, Bethesda, USA (1999)
• "Joan Vivancos" Award. Special award. Research line in alcoholic myopathy and cardiomyopathy. Call VI Memorial Joan Vivancos (1995)
• Recognition of qualified researcher by IDIBAPS (1998 - present)
• Institutional recognition for the TOP 20 care award at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (2003)
• Recognition as a researcher component of the Consolidated Research Group in muscular pathology (2001. Renewed in 2011)
• Prize of the Association Coruñesa de Fibromialgia (ACOFIFA) - City Council of A Coruña, for the care work in said disease (2011)
• Prize at the XXX Congress of the Galician Society of Internal Medicine: SOGAMI for the best oral communication. SEMI-Alcohol Group, with communication: "Multicenter study on Wernicke encephalopathy in Spain: Descriptive analysis of 542 cases" (2013)
• Personal recognition of the Parlament de Catalunya for the medical activity provided (2016)

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 Professional membership

• Founder and vice president of the Spanish Society of Central Sensitivity (SESSS)
• Founder and vice president of two foundations of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue
• Elected member and Secretary of the Board of the European Society of Alcoholics (ESBRA) (2009 - present)

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