Emeritus Professor of Medicine, School of Health and Life Sciences, University Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain (2024- ). Honorary Professor of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain. Former Chief of the Hypertension Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain (1984-2018). Past-President of the Spanish Society of Hypertension (2004-2006), honorary member of the Latin American Society of Hypertension (LASH), InterAmerican Society of Cardiology (SIAC), Central American Society of Hypertension (SCCH), Argentinean Society of Hypertension (SAHA), Venezuelan Society of Hypertension, Peruvian Society of Cardiology (SPC), Peruvian Society of Hypertension (SPH) and Portuguese Society of Hypertension (SPH). Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London (FRCP), Emeritus Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (EFESC). Executive Officer of the Council of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) responsible for relationships with Latin America (2007-2023). Currently, member of the Advisory Board of the ESH. Former Chair of the Council on Hypertension of the European Society of Cardiology (2012-2016), Past-Chair of the ESH WG on the Brain & Hypertension (2014-2016), and past-member of the Committee for Practice Guidelines of ESC (2016-2018). Editor of 60 books on various topics of hypertension, and more than 750 published papers in international journals, and more than 1,000 lectures in international meetings.
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