Josep Brugada Terradellas

Prof Brugada is a Senior Consultant at the Hospital Clínic, Barcelona and Head of the Arrhythmia Section at the Pediatric Hospital Sant Joan de Déu and Head of the Arrhythmia Unit of the Clínica Quirón Palmaplanas and Clínica Rotger in Palma de Mallorca and Clínica Girona in Girona. Consultant in Clínica Teknon, Barcelona. Past President of the European Heart Rhythm Association. He has published more than 500 original papers in the most relevant international journals, with an H index of 83 and more than 25.000 citations. Prof. Brugada held also the post of Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Cardiology. He is member of several scientific societies and is Professor of Cardiology at the University of Barcelona since 1998. He discovered, treated and found the genetic cause of a rare syndrome causing Sudden Death, which is known in the scientific literature as “Brugada Syndrome”. He is Doctor Honoris Causa by several Universities around the world and he has received multiple Prices and Awards including the Fritz-Acker Award of the German Society of Cardiology, the Josep Trueta Award of the Catalan Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Rey Jaime 1 Award in clinical medicine.