Dr. Joaquim Fernández Solà areas of expertise:
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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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L S. Verified Patient
22/03/2024
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Asistí 4 veces a consulta tras enfermar con fatiga severa, insomnio brutal, problemas digestivos.. los informes del doctor me fueron de utilidad para obtener diagnósticos y las IT, pero no para IP ni para el juicio. No hace análisis y niega el Lyme crónico, aún con IgM + crónico.
L P. Verified Patient
28/05/2022
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El trato del doctor fue excelente, las explicaciones han sido muy claras. He salido de la consulta con diagnóstico , medicación y recomendaciones a seguir. Absolutamente recomendable.
A G. Verified Patient
09/02/2022
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El doctor me trató de maravilla, un trato humano y cercano, todo un profesioen su especialidad, lo recomiendo sin dudarlo.
L R. Verified Patient
13/11/2021
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Trato inmejorable, paciente, comprensivo e implicado. Despues de mucho tiempo de incertidumbre y de innumerables visitas con otros médicos me ha dado la respuesta a mi problema de salud. Muy agradecida.
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