Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP-IR)

The Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (HSCSP-IR) was created on 4 June 1992 as a scientific foundation. Its mission is to promote basic, clinical, epidemiological and healthcare research in the health science and biomedical fields, with the ultimate aim of improving the health of the population.

Hospital de Sant Pau is a level 3 university hospital, with more than 600 years old and equipped with all medical and surgical specialties. At the community level it is the reference hospital for an area of 450,000 inhabitants. The Research Institute of the Hospital (IR Sant Pau) established on June 1992, is a private, scientific foundation whose mission is to improve health and quality of people's lives, through the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge, the training of international researchers, the generation of health innovations, the application of advances in healthcare practice and health policies.

In 2018 the IR Sant Pau community of research published 1168 documents of which 813 were originals articles. The overall impact factor (IF) of these documents reached 5220 points with a mean IF of 5,2. On the innovation chapter, 22 families of patents were active during 2018.

The Clinical and Translational Cardiology group (CTC)

The lines of work of the group include: cellular and clinical electrophysiology; translational electrocardiography; heart failure and heart transplant; ischemic heart disease; percutaneous treatment of valve diseases; cardiac imaging and bioengineering. CTC reached 50 research publications during 2017, with an overall IF of 206,7 points with a mean IF of 4.7.

CTC have access to all the research facilities of IR Sant Pau, that include the animal experimentation facility. This facility is prepared to host small (mouse, rat, rabbit) and large (pig, sheep) research animals and has two operating theaters for large animals and three for small animals, both equipped with X-Ray systems, Anesthesia units and Electrophysiology Mapping and ablation systems, identical to the ones used in the clinic.

Dr. Jose M. Guerra-Ramos (supervisor)

Dr. Jose M. Guerra-Ramos is the head of the Clinical and Translational Cardiology group and leader of the CIBERCV group at the Research Institute of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. He is a specialist in Cardiology and expert in radiofrequency ablation of the pulmonary veins as treatment of atrial fibrillation and cardiac resynchronization therapy, among others. He works in the Arrhythmias Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu and Sant Pau in Barcelona and is also president of the Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias Section of the Spanish Society of Cardiology (SEC). He is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and also stands out for his multiple presentations at international and national conferences and meetings in his area, as well as for being the author of numerous research articles.