IV Jornada de Salut Internacional i One Health

Territorial Clinical Directorate of Infectious Diseases GT Metropolitana Nord
Training DAP Metropolitana Nord

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads.  In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.

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Master's Degree in Healthcare Management from the International University of Catalonia (UIC).

Extensive experience in the field of programs and actions for the prevention and control of infectious diseases since 1999 and currently head of the Preventive Medicine Service of the General Sub-Directorate for Health Promotion at the Secretariat of Public Health of the Department of Health.

Experience in the planning and management of different programs to combat infectious diseases, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic, as well as in coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating the implementation of health programs and campaigns related to the prevention of infectious diseases in the territory together with the public network of health services, the central services and other institutions.

Participation in different working groups and expert committees in the field of vaccinology and vaccine information systems. Currently secretary of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Covid-19 of Catalonia.

Systematic participation in the preparation of vaccination manuals for Catalonia and in the development of face-to-face and distance teaching activities for the training of healthcare professionals in the areas of public health and especially regarding vaccines.

Degree in medicine and surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (1992) and specialist in family and community medicine (1995).

Formation:

• Diploma in quality management in primary health care, Barcelona, ​​2004.
• Master's degree in management of healthcare institutions, Doctor Robert Foundation, 2011.
• Master's degree in chronic patient care in primary care, University of Barcelona, ​​2012.
• Master in Sports Nutrition, European quality business school, 2021

She has participated in publications such as:

• Editorial comment. European guidelines for low back pain. A necessary step forward and an opportunity not to be missed, eur spine j,
• Issue of the magazine vol 15 sup 2.
• Designing a Person-Centred Integrated Care Program for People with Complex Chronic Conditions: A Case Study from Catalonia,
• International Journal of Integrated Care, journal issue -.
• Do we gain or lose information with computerization?, atencion primaria, issue of the magazine vol 27 number 9.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, primary care, issue of the magazine VOL 28 N 6.
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the COVID-19 Asymptomatic Mass Testing Strategy in the North Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​International journal of environmental research and public health, issue of the magazine vol18. 7028.
• Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 clusters in Catalonia, Spain: a cohort study, LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES, issue of the online magazine feb2.
• High-titre methylene blue-treated convalescent plasma as an early treatment for outpatients with COVID-19: , 21TLRM1041 Articles, journal number -.
• Comparison between mid-nasal swabs and buccal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection in mild COVID-19 patients, medRxiv, journal number -.
• Performance characteristics of five antigen-detecting rabies diagnostic test (AgRDT) for SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic infection: a head-to head benchmark comparison, Journal of infection, magazine issue 1.
• Antibody kinetics to SARS-CoV-2 at 13.5 months, by disease severity, medRxiv, journal issue -.
• Descriptive study of healthcare workers in a primary care office confined by Covid-19, Revista Española de Salud Pública, issue of the magazine 09/03/2020.
• Prevalence of generalized pain of the locomotor apparatus, primary attention (ATEN PRIMARIA), issue of the magazine vol 16 nº 6.
• 12 pharmacotherapeutic information bulletin. The red eye. etiology and therapeutics, Catalan health service. regio sanitaria de giron, magazine number 1135-1160.
• Evaluation of the previous appointment of a health center, within a quality improvement program, attention to the user seeaus, issue of the magazine vol 1 number 6.
• Clinical Factors Related to COVID-19 Outcomes in Institutionalized Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis from a Cohort in Catalonia, Journal of the American Medical Direct Association (JAMDA), issue of the magazine 22 (9).
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination in Catalonia, La Vanguardia, issue of the magazine -.
• A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Prevention of Covid-19 Transmission and Disease, medRxiv Journal. BMJ, journal issue July 202.
• Pathology of the lumbar spine in adults. Clinical practice guides and teaching material, ics, chapters 1.

Among the grants for approved research and clinical trial projects in which she has participated we find:

• Clinical, double-blind, randomized, parallel, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in the oral cavity of SARS-CoV-2 positive subjects after using a mouthwash
• Effectiveness of back pain treatments, public call from the medical technology and research evaluation agency, 22/05/2001.
• Usefulness and efficiency of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis of white coat in primary health care, ICS Girona subdivision of primary health care, 05/29/1995.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, eap salt, 05/02/2002.
• Community program for the prevention of falls in the elderly, abs salt, 11/02/2000.

She has won awards for the following projects:

• New comprehensive care model for low back pain in the Eastern Vallès, health quality and evaluation agency of Catalonia, 17/10/2013.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, Cap Sal, 29/03/2001.
• Premio al trabajo .premios professor barea. Geriatric project, signo foundation, 04/16/2013.
• Premio professor barea for the work "geriatrics project", fundación signo, 16/04/2013.

She has worked as a family doctor both at Girona Primary Care and at Metropolitana Nord.

From the year 2009, carrying out her duties as director of EAP and director of SAP. From 2016 to the present day as Director of Primary and Community Care in the Metropolitana Nord.

His professional interests focus on science and science communication.

In science, his specialty is ecology and evolution. For seven years he worked in a doctoral thesis dedicated to the marine plant Posidonia oceanica, at the University of Barcelona and at the Blanes Advanced Study Center (CSIC). One of the chapters of the thesis goes obtain the Iso-Analytical Student Research Award (Cheshire, United Kingdom, 2003).

He coordinated the Alguers Surveillance Network, a project that combined research, management and environmental education along the Catalan coast, project that goes to be awarded the 2001 Mediterranean Award, granted by the Center for Initiatives ecological In the context of this project he published the informative article "La Mediterranean, a sea of ​​gods, his study, a tavern of heroes", which obtained the Albert Pérez Bastardas Award 2002, granted by the Roca i Galés Foundation.

He edited a monthly newsletter (35 issues) and published a children's story about Posidonia, published by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The story was translated into Spanish, French and Arabic within the framework of a European project of international cooperation and was distributed for free among Tunisian schoolchildren.

He has also published three popular books "Curiosities of the Natural World for Everyone" (2018) and "50 questions and answers for everyone" (2020) with the publishing house Baula, and "Science under the spotlight" with the publisher Cossetània and TV3 (2022).

From 2006 to 2019, he worked as an editor and reporter for the outreach program scientist at the Television of Catalonia "Quèquicom". During this period it took a term 143 reports (30') that allowed him to dive under the ice, fly in balloons hot air ballooning, skydiving, submarine diving, swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar, run a marathon, climb, go caving or experience weightlessness in a parabolic flight with the European Space Agency.

His report "Diabetes: when the sweet is bitter" won the National Award and International Novo Nordisk 2008. The report "The cord that gives lives" was recognized with the Boeringer Ingelheim Prize for medical journalism 2008, and the 3rd prize at Badajoz International Medical Film Festival 2008. The report "Atrapa raigs" was awarded the XVI Science in Action Award 2015. The report "El vol parabolic" was distinguished with an honorable mention in the 19th Science in Action Award 2018. And the report "Deextinction: reviving a species" won the Prisma Award 2019, for the best science popularization video.

Since 2019, he has been conducting a weekly science section live on the programme Televisió de Catalunya "Tot es mou", where it has accumulated more than 200 interventions (6'-14').

In 2023, he obtained a doctorate in biomedicine at the Pompeu Fabra University with excellent results cum laude for the thesis "Understanding evolution through genomic analysis of extinct species". Their first paper (collective) recovers the complete genomic sequence of the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), extinct in 1918. Published in the magazine Current Biology (2020), has been highlighted on the cover due to its relevance, I reviewed in magazines and newspapers such as: el País, National Geographic, the BBC, the magazine Forbes, the World and The Times.

Doctor

Specialist in Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Head of Service of the Epidemiological Surveillance and Public Health Emergency Response Service in Vallès Occidental and Vallès Oriental (health department)