Manel Puig Domingo, new director of the Germans Trias Institute
29/04/2013
The Board of Trustees of the Germans Trias i Pujol Health Sciences Research Institute has appointed Manel Puig Domingo as the institute's scientific director. Doctor Puig takes over from Doctor Miquel Àngel Gassull, who from May onwards will coordinate the areas of Innovation and European Projects of the Germans Trias Institute.
Dr Puig is head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, and from now on will combine both jobs. As head of service he will have the support of Doctor Dídac Mauricio Puente, the hospital's clinical director.
Professional profile
Graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Medicine in 1980 and as a Doctor of Medicine in 1988 at the UAB, he did his residency at the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of Sant Pau Hospital and then spent two years as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Until 1999 he was a practising doctor and a researcher at Sant Pau Hospital, where he was appointed head of the Experimental Endocrinology Laboratory. He has also been medical director of the Maresme Healthcare Consortium, research director of Mataró Hospital and vice-president of the Catalan and Spanish Endocrinology and Nutrition societies.
With a diploma in healthcare management, between 2003 and 2010 he worked at the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona. Since 2010 he has been head of the Endocrinology and Nutrition Service of Germans Trias Hospital and since 2011, directorof the Rossend Carrasco i Formiguera Foundation.
Dr Puig is a lecturer on the bachelor's degree programme in Medicine of the UAB, has directed four PhD theses and has been main researcher on 26 research projects. He has published 151 papers in national and international journals and has edited two books on endocrinology, as well as authoring 42 chapters in other works in that field. He has received five prizes from scientific and professional societies, is a reviewer for seven scientific journals and a member of eight scientific societies, two of which are American.