Prof Lina  Badimon

Prof. Lina Badimon is the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center in Barcelona (CSIC?]ICCC) in the Hospital Santa Creu and San Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also Lecturer Adjunt Associate Professor of Medicine ?] Cardiology ?] at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York and Director of the Cardiovascular Research Chair of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Her research activities focus on vascular and cardiac pathology. She has published over 380 articles in highly qualified scientific journals with her work highly quoted in the scientific literature (Citations: over 18.700; h?]index 60). She has written 230 reviews and book chapters. She is Member of Editorial Boards of various international scientific journals.

Previous appointments include: Fellow at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA (1981?]1983); Director of the Cardiology Basic Research Laboratory of the Division of Cardiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY (1983?]1991); Assistant Professor of Medicine (1983?]1987) and Associate Professor of Medicine (1988?]1991) at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY; Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston (1991?]1994); Consultant at the Cardiac Unit, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (1991?]1994) Council and scientific appointments: Vice?]President of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (2014?]2016); Chairman of the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science (2014?]2016) and Chairman of the Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation (2012?]2014) of the European Society of Cardiology; Past?]President of the Spanish Society of Atherosclerosis (1996?]2000); Past?]President of the European Society for Clinical Investigation (2000?]2002); Past?]Chairman of the Working Group on Thrombosis of European Society of Cardiology (2002?]2004).

Honorary Appointments: Fellow of the Cardiovascular Science Council and Fellow of the
Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Council of the American Heart Association; Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology; Distinguished Fellow of the International Atherosclerosis Society and Honorary Member of the Romanian Society of Hypertension.