GOES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- International Coordinator
Job Titles:
- International Coordinator
Job Titles:
- Project Manager
- Research and Innovation Area, Quality and Knowledge Management
- Technical Project Manager
Cano has worked as Technical Project Manager of the research group since 2017. She provides support for all aspects of projects, including communication needs. She also provides technical support on project management in Althaia's Research and Innovation Unit. She is the administrator of AEG-REDCap, as well as the technical manager of the European Registry on the management of H. pylori infection (Hp-EuReg).
Job Titles:
- Research and Innovation Area, Quality and Knowledge Management
A medical student at the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Berta Cervilla joined the GOES research group team during the 2021/2022 academic year. She assists our researchers in patient recruitment and data management of clinical research projects. Berta is very fond of the sea and spendings her summers in Ibiza.
Job Titles:
- International Coordinator
Vidal has been working at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 1992. She works as a stomal therapy nurse, specializing in managing ostomies and incontinence, her main lines of research. The social aspect is essential in her activity. Faced with the need and demand she received from people with an ostomy, in 2018, Vidal created the Associació Catalana d'Ostomitzats Catalunya Central (ACOCC). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Associació Catalana d'Ostomitzats (ACO). Vidal also participates as a nurse expert in the GESTO working group, formed by stomal therapy nurses from all over the state, whose objective is to share research projects, educational material, action protocols, and visibility campaigns with professionals in the field. She is also a member of the scientific group Puntos de encuentro de Cataluña. At the teaching level, Vidal teaches in training programs on transanal irrigation, pelvic floor, ostomies, and cures for other nurses; and she is a tutor for the practical training of students of Nursing Degree and Resident Nurses of the Multiprofessional Teaching Unit AFIC Catalunya Central. Vidal obtained her Master's Degree in Nursing in Coloproctology and Stomatherapy from UFV Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in 2019. Cristina loves hiking and enjoying family and friends.
Education
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
School of Pharmacy, BPharm, 2008
Job Titles:
- Consorci Sanitari De Terrassa As a Gastroenterology Consultant
Dr Da Costa has worked at the Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa as a gastroenterology consultant since 2021. Previously, he worked at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa, from 2019 to 2021.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator of the Pelvic Floor Working Group of the Societat Catalana De Medicina
Dr Romero has worked as a rehabilitation doctor at Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 2005; and as an associate professor at the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya since 2014. Her lines of research focus on pelvic floor rehabilitation and the treatment of incontinence. As a result of this work, Romero obtained the European patent for the PelviBex Strenght, registered in 2015. It is an instrument capable of measuring pelvic floor muscle strength. Romero is currently working on a new patent in collaboration with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, a penile clamp device for male urinary incontinence. Dr Romero has an extensive track record as a participant in scientific meetings, with some fifty communications to congresses and some forty papers. She is also the author of some twenty international and national publications. In the associative framework, Romero is the Coordinator of the pelvic floor working group of the Societat Catalana de Medicina física i Rehabilitació and Secretary of the working group on chronic pelvic pain of the Societat Catalana de Ginecologia. Georgia is happy enjoying her free time with her friends and family.
Job Titles:
- Coordinator
- Director
- Consultant at Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària De Manresa
- Scientific Director of AEG - REDCap
Dr Puig has served as a Gastroenterology Consultant at Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 2011, and as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya since 2019.
Job Titles:
- Head of Service, Gastroenterology Service
Dr Álvarez has been Head of the Digestology Service at Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 2021, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2014, where he has supervised one doctoral thesis and five final degree projects. He has broad expertise in basic and advanced endoscopy (with more than 20,000 colonoscopies, 15,000 gastroscopies, 400 endoscopic mucosal resections, 300 ERCP, 300 enteroscopies and 200 small bowel capsule endoscopies) and in outpatient assessment, diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal and liver disorders. Dr Álvarez also has extensive experience as a speaker at international and national scientific meetings, having given more than 50 lectures on topics including cirrhosis, celiac disease, colonoscopy, advanced imaging in GI endoscopy, artificial intelligence in GI endoscopy, colorectal cancer and endoscopic removal of colon polyps, which represent his main lines of research. He is the author of more than 40 papers published in leading scientific journals and he has taken part in more than 15 clinical trials as PI or collaborator. As regards his participation in professional associations, Dr Álvarez takes a very active part in the work of the Societat Catalana de Digestologia. He served as an expert on the organization's scientific committee for endoscopy and pancreas until 2021 and is currently working on the society's strategic plan on advanced endoscopy. He has also joined the Endoscopic resection working group of the Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva, as a board member and scientific adviser to the group's multicentre studies. Marco Antonio enjoys fencing (épée), playing football and travelling with family and friends.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Head of Internal Medicine Outpatient Area, Internal Medicine Service
Dr Olmedo began her career as an assistant doctor in the Surgery Department of the Hospital General de Manresa in 1996. At the end of her residency as a specialist in Family and Community Health, in 2000, she continued as an emergency surgeon until 2005, spending two years as a member of the outpatient emergency air team. Since 2003, Olmedo has been working as a Family doctor at ABS Manresa 3 (Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa). Since 2012, she has been a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, giving the course entitled "Family and Community Medicine". She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya under the supervision of Dr Emili Gené and Dr Xavier Calvet. Her line of research focuses on digestive pathology in Primary Care and the treatment of Helicobacter Pylori. In her free time, Llum organizes weddings and events (she trained as a wedding planner at the Universitat de Girona), but what she likes most is celebrating every little moment with family and friends: for her "the best life is a shared life".
Job Titles:
- Member of the Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Tumour Committee
Mar Masanés has worked at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 1989. After starting her career as a hospital nurse in the Internal Medicine, Oncology and Surgery services, in 2005, she initiated, together with a multidisciplinary team, the project of the Rapid Diagnosis Unit for Digestive Medicine and Cancer, of which she is currently the nurse manager.
In 2005, Mar obtained a Master's Degree in Bases on Care and Education for People with Diabetes, taught at the University of Barcelona. Subsequently, she obtained a postgraduate diploma in Oncology Nursing from the Escola Universitària de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in 2008.
Her main teaching responsibilities include her participation in the postgraduate course in anaesthesia and resuscitation at the Escola Universitària de Ciències de la Salut de Manresa (2001-2006).
Mar Masanés is also an active member of the Colorectal and Gastrointestinal Tumour Committee.
Her hobbies include hiking and she is a devoted reader of good literature.
Job Titles:
- Gastrointestinal Cancer Unit, Oncology Service
Matas has worked at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 2018. She is currently a PhD student in the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences programme at the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya under the supervision of Dr. Ignasi Puig and Dr. Meritxell Gironella (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, IDIBAPS). Her line of research focuses on analysing the expression of microRNAs in faeces to assess it as a potential biomarker for the development of colorectal cancer. She obtained a Master's Degree in Molecular Oncology at the Centre for Biosanitary Studies and Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). Marta is a very active person who enjoys trekking, cycling and the tradition of "castells" - human towers.
Dr Güell has worked as a surgeon at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 2001. She specializes in gastroesophageal surgery.
Job Titles:
- Member of Althaia 's Gastrointestinal Pathology Committee
Ascón is also an active member of Althaia's Gastrointestinal Pathology Committee. Her line of research focuses on the follow-up of patients with a high personal risk of colorectal cancer. She teaches on early detection of colorectal cancer training programmes for other nurses.
Job Titles:
- Head of Service, General and Digestive Surgery Service
- Surgeon at Althaia
Education
Universidad de Navarra
School of Medicine, MD, 1992
Centers where I work
Dr Collera has worked as a surgeon at Althaia, Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa since 1998. He became head of the Service of General Surgery in 2018, and joined the Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya in 2019 as Associate Professor.
Job Titles:
- International Coordinator
Job Titles:
- International Coordinator