Adrián Gómez
Adrián is an Entrepreneur, PhD student at CTB-UPM, IDEA 2 MIT LinQ alumni and a Registered Nurse with 8 years of experience in Intensive Care Units in Germany and Spain. He is certified and has been working since 2016 with MIT’s data base MIMIC with 60,000 ICU patient’s data. The last four years he has been involved at S-There Technologies as a Co-founder and CEO developing an IVD class II medical device with innovation stays in US, Germany, China and Japan.
Adrián Valls
Adrián Valls studied medicine in Murcia and Barcelona, then specialized in neurology in hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid. He participated during his stay in Mayo Clinic (Minnesota, US) in advanced neuroimaging studies with tractography in neurodegenerative diseases. His interest in innovation projects lead him to participate in the program Catalyst Europe, a multi centric program coordinated by the MIT to develop new technological initiatives in health.
He is currently conducting research studies in Instituto de investigación Clínico San Carlos (IdiSSC) employing his abilities in bioinformatics to predict the outcomes of COVID-19 patients.
Aiza Hernández
Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Central University of Venezuela (2005), with specialized training in Paediatrics. I am also a specialist in Family and Community Medicine and have a master’s degree in Knowledge and Information Management in Health Sciences.
I started my career in clinical research a few years ago, at the present I combine my professional activity as a Paediatrician with the writing of the doctoral thesis and the participation in a joint research project between the Fundación Alcorcón University Hospital and the Medical Image Laboratory at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, focusing my research activity on the use of new technologies within clinical practice, with special interest in point-of-care ultrasound and the integration of artificial intelligence into the medical image.”
Alberto Cecconi
Dr. Alberto Cecconi is Cardiologist and Research Coordinator at the Cardiac Imaging Unit in the University Hospital of La Princesa, Madrid. He completed the PhD degree at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre and he is currently directing several PhD projects at the Autonomous University of Madrid. His research mainly focuses on inflammation and atherosclerosis, improvement of diagnosis and outcome predictors in cardiomyopathies, air pollution and ischaemic heart disease, and detection of atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke.
Alberto Pablo Trinidad
Alberto Pablo Trinidad progressed from an undergraduate degree in Audiovisual Systems and Multimedia Engineering to a Masters in Computer Vision at Rey Juan Carlos University. Currently, he is doing his PHD at Politécnica University in Electronics systems, and also is part of Leuko Labs Company. His background is mainly on image processing, biomedical data, and algorithm developing. Alberto is also a keen creative programmer working with modern technologies and has been taking part in various ‘hackathon’ events in collaboration with emergent tech startups.
Andrés Santos
Andrés Santos is full professor at the Electronic Engineering Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is the director of the Biomedical Image Technologies research group and the coordinator of the BioTech-UPM technological initiative. His research is oriented to finding technological solutions to actual clinical or biological relevant problems, especially with the aim of providing early diagnosis or therapy monitoring.
The main contributions have been in the field of acquisition and analysis of biomedical images, always emphasizing the testing and validation of the proposed solutions with clinical teams. Some results have been the proposal and validation of tools based on the registration of cardiac image sequences to aid in the early diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases, tools to localize epileptic focus in epilepsy surgery planning, systems to aid in intraoperative radiotherapy planning, to aid in the processing of diffusion MRI and in contrast-enhanced MRI
Antonio Palomino
Antonio Palomino is the Telecare Area’s Commercial Director of the Essence Group in Spain and Portugal. He studied Telecommunications Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and specialized in Bioengineering at the the Polytechnic University of Helsinki. He has master’s degree in Marketing and a Master in Technology and Health Management from the University of Alcalá de Henares. During his professional career he has developed a deeper understanding of the social and health environment and its management models, with experience in leading companies in this sector such as Althea Group, Siemens or General Electric.
Aurélien Bourquard
Chief data scientist and cofounder at Leuko, a company that spun out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Madrid–MIT M+Visión Consortium. With a professional background in micro-engineering, biomedical engineering, signal processing and image processing, Aurélien has strong research interests in biomedical imaging, inverse problems, algorithm design, computational optics, holography, and statistical modeling.
He received his MSc degree in microengineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and his PhD with the Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL.
After working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the MIT and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, Ian Butterworth, Álvaro Sánchez-Ferro and Aurélien himself co-founded Leuko and co-invented Leuko’s proprietary PointCheck™ technology for non-invasive white blood cell monitoring, in order to improve the quality of life and outcomes for chemotherapy patients and others at risk of sever neutropenia.
Claudia Barquet
With a strong diplomatic background Claudia has dedicated the last 20 years to planning, implementing and supervising science, technology and higher education projects by leveraging her international experiences, and knowledge of the entrepreneurial and innovation methodologies in Europe and Latin America. Strong believer in giving back to the community, she is Founder and Director of MVision Foundation, a private institution with focus in developing a multidisciplinary ecosystem for applied innovation in the health sector.
Ester Higueras
Ester Higueras is a PhD architect, UPM full professor and postgraduate professor of the Master in Environment and bioclimatic architecture, as well as of the Master in Territory Planning. Ester belongs to the research group ABIO (Bioclimatic Architecture in a sustainable environment of the UPM), has participated in numerous postgraduate courses and conferences and supervised more than 10 doctoral theses. Since her doctoral thesis defense in 1997, she has been working from theory and practice on issues of environmental planning, bioclimatic urbanism, passive conditioning criteria at the urban scale and environmental ordinances. She has written numerous articles, books and teaching and popular articles and, additionally, has developed applied research on bioclimatic and environmental urbanism. Ester is currently working on urban health in urban public spaces and she is the director of the project obtained in a competitive call UNI-Health on active aging of residential neighborhoods in consolidated cities.
Francisca Mulero
Francisca has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Alicante (1986–1992) and did her medical internship residency at Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia specializing in Nuclear Medicine (1993–1997). She obtained her PhD at University of Murcia (1998) with the Doctoral Thesis: “MIBI-Tc-99m in the differential diagnosis of breast injuries”. She worked as a nuclear medicine specialist at Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca in Murcia from 1999 to 2007. In 2007 she moved to the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) to lead the Molecular Imaging Unit, where she has continue developing her career in the field.
She has broad expertise in molecular imaging techniques both preclinical and clinical, and lately her research is devoted to the use of imaging techniques applied to oncologic diseases. Francisca has published a significant number of papers in top peer-review journals, and she participates in several courses and conferences as an expert speaker in the molecular imaging field. Francisca is nationally and internationally recognized, she has been member of the international consortia (M+Vision) between the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) and the Comunidad de Madrid since the inception of this program.
Francisca participates as category chair of oncology in the European Molecular Imaging Congress and was part of the organizing committee of the 2018 ESMI meeting and is member of the Spanish PET imaging group. She is a member of the CNIO WISE (Women in Science Office) since the beginning of the office (October 2012), and was its events and seminar coordinator.
Germán González
Germán González is an associate professor in the department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Alicante. He has collaborated in several research projects and published in high impact journals, being an expert in image biomarker analysis and interactive robotics, being part of the Robotics and 3D Vision group (RoViT).
Germán studied Telecommunications Engineering at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and obtained a Master of Science with a Major in Information Technology Specialised in Interactive Systems in Sweden. He also holds a PhD in Science from the École Polytechnique Fédérale of Lausanne.
Jesús Hernández
Jesús H. holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and an Executive MBA from IE Business School. He is a Senior Consulting Executive with wide experience in different environments related with Business and Strategic Consulting.
Jesús is used to enroll new projects in complex and underdefined contexts and has strong knowledge in the different strategic activities like business development, marketing, external relations (providers-customers), IT, HR management, Funding, Cost management, institutional relations, project management or business modelling.
The main sectors of expertise are Research, Development and Innovation, Public Administration, Telecoms, Health and Bio-medical, Entertainment, Media and Sports. In addition to the base skills as engineer and MBA Jesús H. have complementary knowledge in productivity, decision making, negotiations, real state and new technologies. He has worked as adviser at the Cabinet of Minister of Economy and Competitiveness Luis de Guindos, the highest representative of the Government in matters of Science and Innovation. Nowadays he is head of the general manager office of the CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Center).
Jesús Troya
“I graduated in Medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2000. I studied my Internal Medicine Specialty at the Virgen de la Salud Hospital in Toledo between 2001 and 2006. After the specialty, I focused my clinical activity in the field of infectious diseases working at the Carlos III Hospital in Madrid during 2007 and 2008 and later at the Infanta Leonor University Hospital where I currently work. My clinical activity is focused on the field of infectious diseases, especially viral infections such as HIV, HCV and HBV. I completed my doctoral thesis at UCM in the field of HIV, in 2018 with a grade of Outstanding Cum Laude.
In the last 15 years I have combined my clinical activity with research work participating as principal investigator in more than 15 national and international projects in the field of HIV and recently in COVID-19 and scientific publications in both national and international journals. In the last 2 years, I have developed a great interest in the field of Healthcare Innovation and I have contributed to the creation of an Innovation Committee in the hospital and to the organization of 2 editions of a Healthcare Innovation Conference in Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor. Beyond the clinical and research activity, I am passionate about the sea, photography, cinema and above all my two daughters, a true source of stimulus and energy.”
Josué Pagán
Josué Pagán works as Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Madrid. He has a PhD in Computer Science. His work focuses on the development of robust methodologies for information acquisition, modeling, simulation and optimization in biophysical and critical scenarios. He has worked on the development of models for early crisis prediction and classification of neurological and oncological diseases. He has worked as visiting researcher at Washington State University in the US, and at the Friedrich Alexander Universität in Germany. His background is MSc in Telecommunications Engineering and BSc Sound and Image processing Engineering.
He is proactive in the field of technology transfer, and founder of BrainGuard. He is an inventor with IP in exploitation. He is member of the Spanish Association of Artificial Intelligence and board member of the Quality Committee of the Health Research Institute of Madrid Hospitals. He has participated as a member of the program committee of international congresses such as DS-RT and SummerSim.
Juan José Gómez Valverde
Juan José Gómez Valverde is an Assistant Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a researcher in the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine. His main researcher interests are related with screening for diseases, biomedical image processing, optical image analysis and telemedicine. He has also experience in the telecommunications and banking industry as project manager.
Juan José Ríos
Juan José Ríos Blanco is the deputy director of the Medical Area of the La Paz University Hospital. Among its subspecialties and research areas are autoimmune diseases (scleroderma, vasculitis ..) and pulmonary hypertension. M.D. by the Autonoma University of Madrid in 1995 and Ph.M.D. at the Autonoma University of Madrid in 2002. With his doctoral thesis “Non-invasive study of endothelial function in white coat hypertension” he obtained an outstanding “Cum Laude” (“Summa cum laude”) and was the “Extraordinary Prize”. He works as a part time professor in the faculty of medicine of the Autonoma University of Madrid and is a professor at the University School of Physiotherapy of the ONCE of the Autonomous University of Madrid. From 2008 to 2014 he was associate director of the “Revista Clínica Española” and is currently a board member of the committee of the “Spanish Journal of Pulmonary Hypertension”.
Luis Jesús Jiménez-Borreguero
Dr. Luis Jesús Jiménez-Borreguero, MD, is a cardiologist with a focus on cardiovascular diagnostic sciences applied to research and clinical practice. He was a pioneer in introducing cardiac magnetic resonance and cardiac computed tomography in Spain. Being a leader of opinion, he is currently the president of the Cardiac Imaging Association of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. He has worked for 11 years at the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid in close collaboration with Prof. Valentín Fuster. His authorship in more than 80 scientific publications reflects his vision in the innovative application of cardiovascular diagnostic techniques.
His scientific production has always been multidisciplinary and covers different scenarios, both population-based, clinical, basic and translational research. He is currently Head of the Cardiovascular Imaging Department at the University Hospital de La Princesa, Madrid, where, in addition to his clinical activity, he leads research and innovation in cardiovascular diagnostic techniques. He is currently leading a research project already completed and with original results, having used big data and artificial intelligence methods based on hundreds of thousands of electrocardiograms.
María Jesús Ledesma
Dr. Ledesma Carbayo is an Associate Professor in the Electronic Engineering Department at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a scientist in the Biomedical Research Networking Center in Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine. Her main research motivation relates to improving health care delivery through advances in biomedical imaging technologies, providing technological solutions to actual clinical or biological problems. Her main areas of expertise deal with biomedical image analysis and processing, especially those topics dealing with cardiac imaging, image guided therapy, microscopy image analysis for developmental biology, registration, and motion estimation and compensation.
Ricardo Ruiz de España
Ricardo Ruiz de España studied Pharmacy in Universidad Complutense, Madrid, and he also holds an MBA by ICADE. More than 20 years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry that shows an intensive knowledge and experience in building and leading high performance teams. He currently collaborates as Senior Investment Advisor of Innosuns Coaching & Capital as well as Mentor of Innovation programs coordinated by MIT. From Innosuns, he worked with more than 30 Spanish companies with high innovative DNA, in some cases case, in developing their expansion projects, and in other cases, in getting the best financial conditions according to their life cycle. He is now interested in pushing fast growth projects based on breakthrough innovations
Rocío Anula
Rocío Anula obtained a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Universidad Complutense University of Madrid, and her PhD with the Doctoral Thesis related to prognostic factors of recurrence in ileocecal Crohn’s disease after surgery.
She completed her residency program in General Surgery at the Department of Surgery of Hospital Clínico San Carlos. She currently works as a Digestive Surgeon in the Division of Colorectal Surgery, and she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Universidad Complutense.
She is a member of the Spanish Society of Surgeons, as well as a member of the Society of Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the Spanish Society of Surgical Research. At present, besides her regular activity at the hospital focused in the management of colorectal cancer patients and inflammatory bowel disease, she has accreditation in robotic surgery, and extremely interested in new technologies, she has collaborated for years in Idea2 MIT programs, being currently european co-director of Idea 2 Global.
Valentín Villarroel Ortega
Valentín has worked for more than twenty years in social innovation, specializing in project management, group facilitation and participatory processes. He is a Telecommunications Engineer, has been a researcher in telemedicine systems for developing countries, has been trained in participatory processes and group facilitation, has been co-founder of the EHAS initiative of innovation in ICT for health in developing countries, has designed and directed projects of innovation in international cooperation for development based on the use of ICT for health, education, governance and citizen participation for rural areas in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, has coordinated various social initiatives in Spain, is a trainer and has worked at the university , the third sector, public administration, the social economy and he is currently the co-founder of an innovation company in the use of live action role-playing for remote training in soft skills for hybrid teams.
