Dr. José Federico Díaz González

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Medical Assistant of the Rheumatology Service of the University Hospital of Canaria (1999 - present)
• Medical specialist of the Rheumatology Service of the Hospital de la Princesa de Madrid.
• Director of the Research Unit of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology (SER) (2012)

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 Teaching posts

• Professor of Medicine at the University of La Laguna (2011 - present)

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of La Laguna (1986)
• Specialist in Rheumatology with MIR training at the University Hospital of La Princesa in Madrid (1991)
• Doctor of Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1994)
• Postdoctoral Fellow of the Department of Vascular Biology of the Scripps Institute in San Diego, California.
• Leader of an independent research group that studies the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis and the involvement of adhesion molecules in the inflammatory response.

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 Publications and conferences

• Author of 28 papers published in national and international journals.
• Author of two book chapters.

 Prizes and awards

• Scholarship from the Ministry of Health, Education and Science at the Mark H. Ginsberg Laboratory of the Department of Vascular Biology of the Scripps Research Institute of La Jolla (California, USA).

 Professional membership

• Member of the National Rheumatology Commission by the Ministry of Education