Dra. Marta Sitges Carreño

 Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona (2015-present)
• Co-Scientific Director of the Cardiovascular Tissue Bank of Catalonia (2014-present)
• Head of the Non-Invasive Cardiological Diagnosis Section of Hospital Clínic (2013-present)
• Coordinator of the Sports Cardiology Working Group of the Hospital Clínic (2012-present)
• Coordinator of the Research Group "Cardiac Image" linked to the Research Team 503 "Arithms, Resynchronization and Cardiac Imaging" of Area 2 of IDIBAPS (2011-present)
• Deputy Medical Consultant-2 at the Hospital Clínic (2011-present)
• Deputy Medical Specialist at the Hospital Clínic (2006-2010)
• Deputy Medical Specialist of the Cardiology Service, in the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases of the Hospital Clínic (2001-2005)
• Research stay at the Cardiovascular Imaging Center of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Cleveland, USA) (2000)

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 Sub-specialties

• Specialized in Sports Cardiology
• Diseases of the heart valves

 Teaching posts

• Professor in Master in Translational Medicine, University of Barcelona (2016)
• Coordinator and professor of the specialty "Non-Invasive Cardiac Image", Official Master's Degree in Advanced Medical Competences, University of Barcelona (2015-2016)
• Member of the Academic Committee of the Doctorate Program of "Medicine", Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona (2013-2016)
• Professor of Escola de "Valvulopathies and myocardiopathies. Diagnosis, treatment and management in the athlete "in Sports Medicine, University of Barcelona, ​​and in" Cardiac Imaging Techniques. Utility and applications "School of Sports Medicine, High Performance Center of Sant Cugat, University of Barcelona (2012-2015)
• Professor and Coordinator in "Master's Degree in Diagnostic Imaging in Cardiology" at the Catholic University of San Antonio de Murcia by the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2012-2013)
• Associate Professor for Cardiovascular Disease Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (2011-2012)
• Professor and Coordinator in "Master's Degree in Diagnostic Imaging in Cardiology" at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche by the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2012-2013)
• Update Course in Sudden Death by the San Antonio de Murcia Catholic University of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2012)
• Teaching Assistant for Diseases of the Cardiovascular Apparatus in Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (2008-2011)

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1993)
• Qualification of Specialist in Cardiology (1999)
• Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona (2003)
• Accreditation in Advanced Echocardiography by the Advanced Society of Cardiology (2004)
• Diploma in Management of Integrated Health Systems by ESADE (2011-2012)
• He has made more than 60 specialization courses in his specialty

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 Publications and conferences

• He has participated in more than 200 conferences, congresses and medical communications
• She has moderated more than 30 round tables nationally and internationally
• Director of 12 doctoral theses, as well as a member of the board of 20 doctoral theses
• He has published numerous medical articles in scientific journals of national and international renown
• Author and co-author of more than 20 book chapters on her specialty

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 Prizes and awards

• Final Residency Award 1999 of the Fundació Clinic per a la Recerca Biomèdica
• Award for the best communication of the Congres of the Catalan Society of Cardiology 2006
• Prize of the Spanish Radiology Foundation for the best work published in national and foreign journals in the years 2007 and 2008
• GE Healthcare Award for the best publication on Echocardiography in Revista Española de Cardiologia (2009, 2015, 2016)
• Prize of the Section of Cardiac Stimulation for the best communication of the Congress of Cardiovascular Diseases 2012. Spanish Society of Cardiology
• Prize of the Section of Cardiac Stimulation for the Best Published Article (2016)

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Catalan Society of Cardiology and the Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia (1993-present)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (1997-present)
• Member of the Working Group on Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology (2001-present)
• Member of the European Association of Echocardiography of the European Society of Cardiology (2006-present)
• Member of the American Society of Echocardiography (2012)
• Board Director, Heart Valve Society (2014-present)

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