Dr. Ricard Cervera Segura

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Medical Senior Consultant and Head of the Service of Autoimmune Diseases of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
• Head of the Team "Systemic Autoimmune Diseases" of the Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) of Barcelon
• Head of the Service of Autoimmune Diseases in the Hospital Clínic (today)

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 Sub-specialties

• Autoimmune Diseases

 Positions in public associations

• In 1995, together with Drs. Miguel Ingelmo and Josep Font, he created the Autoimmune Diseases Service at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, ​​a pioneering center in Europe for the diagnosis, treatment and research of these diseases.
• Coordinator of the European Forum on Antiphospholipid Antibodies and the European Working Party on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

 Teaching posts

• Professor at the Department of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, ​​where he coordinates the Official Master's Degree in Autoimmune Diseases.
• He has been Visiting Professor in several European and Latin American universities

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona (1983)
• Specialized in Internal Medicine at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
• Doctor's degree from the University of Barcelona for his thesis on anticardiolipin antibodies
• His post-doctoral experience includes staying for two years at the Lupus Research Unit of the Rayne Institute at the St. Thomas' Hospital in London

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 Publications and conferences

• He has organized 10 international meetings in various European cities, as well as various symposia and international conferences on autoimmune diseases, highlighting the 6th and 8th International Congress on Autoimmunity, the 8th European Lupus Congress and the I and II Latin American Autoimmunity Congresses
• Coauthor of more than 20 books, such as "Antibodies to endothelial cells and vascular damage", "The antiphospholipid syndrome", "Systemic Autoimmune Diseases", "Vascular Manifestations of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases" and "Diagnostic Criteria of Autoimmune Diseases"
• Member of the Editorial Committees of 10 international medical journals
• Editor of the magazine "Autoimmune Diseases"
• Currently, its main research area focuses on the clinical and epidemiological study of various systemic autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus and antiphospholipid syndrome, with special attention to its "catastrophic" variant
• He has published more than 700 scientific articles (index h: 50), including original studies in prestigious international journals such as The Lancet, Arthritis and Rheumatism, American Journal of Medicine and Medicine (Baltimore),
• He has presented around 200 invited papers

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 Prizes and awards

• Among other awards, he has been awarded the Prize of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine for his research on anti-endothelial cell antibodies, the Fernández-Cruz Prize of the Rhône-Poulenc Farma Foundation, the Juan Vivancos Prize of the Consorci d'Hospitals de Barcelona and the Awards of the "5th European Conference on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus", EULAR 2003 and EULAR 2005. Likewise, it has received various support for research and scholarships from the Spanish Ministries of Health and Education, the British Council and the European Commission

 Professional membership

• He is a member of the Catalan, Spanish and International Societies of Internal Medicine, of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of London
• Honorary member of the Rheumatological Societies of Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Slovakia
• Member of the Medical Advisory Committee of Lupus Europe (European Federation of Patients Associations with Lupus).

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