XII Jornada d’Actualització sobre Malalties Infeccioses – UVic-UCC

Eugènia Negredo earned her medical degree and PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Sant Pau Hospital.

Since 1999, she has led the HIV Section at Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital (HGTiP) and coordinates a research group focused on HIV-related complications and associated chronic inflammation, with a special emphasis on aging.

She contributes to national and international clinical guidelines on comorbidities and aging (GESIDA, PNS, EACS), and since 2014 has been a professor and coordinator of the Medical degree at UVIC-UCC.

Since 2016, she has co-directed the international workshop “Comprehensive Management of Aging and HIV”, held annually in Barcelona and Buenos Aires.

Dr. Clotet received his MD (1976) and his PhD (1981), with a thesis on autoimmune diseases, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). That same year, his internship as an Internal Medicine specialist at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona coincided with the first AIDS case reported in Spain. This case was the catalyst for a career dedicated to this serious disease, first as head of the HIV Unit of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital in Badalona (1987-2015) and then as founder and president of the Fight against AIDS Foundation (1992), which is now named as Fight Infections Foundation.

Dr. Clotet soon saw the need to go a step beyond patient care to conduct research aimed at eradicating AIDS. In 1995, with the support of “la Caixa” and the Department of Health of the Generalitat of Catalonia, he founded the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, which he still heads.  In addition, Dr. Clotet is also the clinical director of Infectious Diseases at the Metropolitana Nord area of the Catalan Institute of Health, scientific advisor to two IrsiCaixa spin-offs: Aelix Therapeutics SL and AlbaJuna Therapeutics SL and director of the Chair of AIDS and Related Diseases at the Universitat de Vic (UVic).

He has published more than 1000 papers in high impact international journals and his contributions to research have been recognized with the Josep Trueta medal to Sanitary Merit and the ‘Premi Nacional de Recerca’, among other awards.

Degree in medicine and surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) (1992) and specialist in family and community medicine (1995).

Formation:

• Diploma in quality management in primary health care, Barcelona, ​​2004.
• Master’s degree in management of healthcare institutions, Doctor Robert Foundation, 2011.
• Master’s degree in chronic patient care in primary care, University of Barcelona, ​​2012.
• Master in Sports Nutrition, European quality business school, 2021

She has participated in publications such as:

• Editorial comment. European guidelines for low back pain. A necessary step forward and an opportunity not to be missed, eur spine j,
• Issue of the magazine vol 15 sup 2.
• Designing a Person-Centred Integrated Care Program for People with Complex Chronic Conditions: A Case Study from Catalonia,
• International Journal of Integrated Care, journal issue -.
• Do we gain or lose information with computerization?, atencion primaria, issue of the magazine vol 27 number 9.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, primary care, issue of the magazine VOL 28 N 6.
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the COVID-19 Asymptomatic Mass Testing Strategy in the North Metropolitan Area of ​​Barcelona, ​​International journal of environmental research and public health, issue of the magazine vol18. 7028.
• Transmission of COVID-19 in 282 clusters in Catalonia, Spain: a cohort study, LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES, issue of the online magazine feb2.
• High-titre methylene blue-treated convalescent plasma as an early treatment for outpatients with COVID-19: , 21TLRM1041 Articles, journal number -.
• Comparison between mid-nasal swabs and buccal swabs for SARS-CoV-2 detection in mild COVID-19 patients, medRxiv, journal number -.
• Performance characteristics of five antigen-detecting rabies diagnostic test (AgRDT) for SARS-CoV-2 asymptomatic infection: a head-to head benchmark comparison, Journal of infection, magazine issue 1.
• Antibody kinetics to SARS-CoV-2 at 13.5 months, by disease severity, medRxiv, journal issue -.
• Descriptive study of healthcare workers in a primary care office confined by Covid-19, Revista Española de Salud Pública, issue of the magazine 09/03/2020.
• Prevalence of generalized pain of the locomotor apparatus, primary attention (ATEN PRIMARIA), issue of the magazine vol 16 nº 6.
• 12 pharmacotherapeutic information bulletin. The red eye. etiology and therapeutics, Catalan health service. regio sanitaria de giron, magazine number 1135-1160.
• Evaluation of the previous appointment of a health center, within a quality improvement program, attention to the user seeaus, issue of the magazine vol 1 number 6.
• Clinical Factors Related to COVID-19 Outcomes in Institutionalized Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis from a Cohort in Catalonia, Journal of the American Medical Direct Association (JAMDA), issue of the magazine 22 (9).
• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination in Catalonia, La Vanguardia, issue of the magazine -.
• A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Hydroxychloroquine as Prevention of Covid-19 Transmission and Disease, medRxiv Journal. BMJ, journal issue July 202.
• Pathology of the lumbar spine in adults. Clinical practice guides and teaching material, ics, chapters 1.

Among the grants for approved research and clinical trial projects in which she has participated we find:

• Clinical, double-blind, randomized, parallel, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in the oral cavity of SARS-CoV-2 positive subjects after using a mouthwash
• Effectiveness of back pain treatments, public call from the medical technology and research evaluation agency, 22/05/2001.
• Usefulness and efficiency of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the diagnosis of white coat in primary health care, ICS Girona subdivision of primary health care, 05/29/1995.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, eap salt, 05/02/2002.
• Community program for the prevention of falls in the elderly, abs salt, 11/02/2000.

She has won awards for the following projects:

• New comprehensive care model for low back pain in the Eastern Vallès, health quality and evaluation agency of Catalonia, 17/10/2013.
• Effectiveness of a multifactorial intervention for the prevention of falls in the elderly of a community, Cap Sal, 29/03/2001.
• Premio al trabajo .premios professor barea. Geriatric project, signo foundation, 04/16/2013.
• Premio professor barea for the work “geriatrics project”, fundación signo, 16/04/2013.

She has worked as a family doctor both at Girona Primary Care and at Metropolitana Nord.

From the year 2009, carrying out her duties as director of EAP and director of SAP. From 2016 to the present day as Director of Primary and Community Care in the Metropolitana Nord.