Actualización en las infecciones relacionadas con la atención sanitaria 2024

Director of the Medical Care Area, Hospital Universitario Mútua Terrassa.

Professor of Medicine at the International University of Catalonia (UIC).

Head of Section for immunosuppressed and severe bacteria at University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Investigator Member of CIBERes and AGAUR.

Dr. Pedro-Botet is specialized in Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Infections and Legionella. She is currently Professor and Chair of Medicine and a member of the Grade of Medicine Committee at the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s School of Medicine. She has been Principal or co-Investigator of 10 projects funded either by national or international grant agencies. Author of 91 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Physician of the Infectious Diseases Department. Member of the Infection Control Team. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Badalona. Barcelona Spain.

Associated Professor of Infectious Diseases. Faculty of  Medicine. Autonomous University of Barcelona

Investigator Member of CIBERes and AGAUR

Associate doctor of the Preventive Medicine Service of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona.

Infection Control Supervisor, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Badalona. Catalan Health Institute

Medical specialist in Microbiology. Head of section of the Microbiology Service of the Clinical Laboratory of the Metropolitan North of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital (Badalona, Barcelona).

Responsible for the area of systemic and nosocomial infection. Member of the Group of surveillance and control of nosocomial infection and the PROA Team of the hospital. Research work has been mainly directed to the rapid diagnosis of sepsis.

Noemí Párraga is a senior postdoctoral researcher focused on the field of environmental microbiology and public health. She has been working since 2013 at the Germans Trias i Pujol Institute, Badalona, in the Clinical and Environmental Infectious Diseases Group (CEID). Dr. Párraga is a member of the Water Committee of the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, a member of the Biosecurity Committee of the IGTP, and a member of the European Study Group on Legionella Infections.

She is a microbiology researcher with extensive experience working with Legionella, as she is responsible for GELeg (Legionellosis Study Group). Thanks to a project funded by the Carlos III Institute (PI16-01347), she initiated research on environmental biocides against Legionella. In 2022 and 2023, she signed collaboration agreements with two companies. These agreements highlight her research capacity and innovative ideas, as well as strengthen her path towards leadership in workgroups. She has published 15 manuscripts with an h-index of 7 and a total of 111 citations. She has experience supervising students: 9 Master’s students and two ongoing doctoral theses.

Currently, her research is focused on addressing public health from the perspective of describing and detailing spaces free from microbiological contaminants and their relationship with climate change.

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the University of Zaragoza. PhD in Microbiology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Specialist in Microbiology and Parasitology, currently Head of the Microbiology Department at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology at UAB. Researcher in the Collaborative Network of Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC, ISCIII). Principal investigator of two competitive projects, funded by the Health Research Fund, studying the transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant bacteria and the individualization, based on epidemic risk, of isolation policies. President of the Spanish Antibiogram Committee (CoEsAnt) and member of various committees and scientific societies related to her specialty.

Physician of the Infectious Diseases Department. Member of the Infection Control Team. Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Badalona. Barcelona Spain.

Associated Professor of Infectious Diseases. Faculty of  Medicine. Autonomous University of Barcelona

Investigator Member of CIBERes and AGAUR

Head of Section for immunosuppressed and severe bacteria at University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Investigator Member of CIBERes and AGAUR.

Dr. Pedro-Botet is specialized in Infectious Diseases, Respiratory Infections and Legionella. She is currently Professor and Chair of Medicine and a member of the Grade of Medicine Committee at the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s School of Medicine. She has been Principal or co-Investigator of 10 projects funded either by national or international grant agencies. Author of 91 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Director of the Medical Care Area, Hospital Universitario Mútua Terrassa.

Professor of Medicine at the International University of Catalonia (UIC).