Marta Hernández-Meneses

Marta Hernández-Meneses is an infectious diseases assistant at Hospital Clinic Barcelona, focusing on cardiovascular infections, endocarditis, intracardiac electronic devices, and mechanical support infections. On January 2018, she obtained a Rio Hortega Grant from Carlos III Health Institute, Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Government of Spain, to continue her research studies and the Ph.D. program. She also won a MAES grant for international observership at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Her research on cardiac device infections and infective endocarditis is also based on in vitro and in vivo models of experimental infective endocarditis. She currently works as an associate professor at the University of Barcelona.