Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees is the governance and administrative body of the Foundation. It represents, manages and assumes all the powers and functions necessary to obtain the goals of the foundation. The following institutions are represented on the VHIR Board of Trustees, through their members: Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya. The VHIR is a CERCA center, of the Institution Cerca organization that depends on this department. Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), of which we are an Affiliated University Research Institute.. Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO). Along with VHIR, it is part of the Accredited Institute of the Vall d'Hebron Campus, an entity that includes the research institutes of Vall d'Hebron that have been accredited by the Instituto de Salud Carlos (ISCIII) as Health Research Institutes. The Catalan Health Institute (ICS, by its acronym in Catalan) President Ms Olga Pané i Mena President of the Board of Trustees. The counselor of the Department of Health of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Vicepresident Ms Núria Montserrat Pulido First Vicepresident of the Board of Trustees. The counselor of the Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Mr. Francisco Javier Lafuente Sancho Second Vicepresident of the Board of Trustees. Dean of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Secretary Laia Pellejà i Puxeu Director of the Fundació Institució dels Centres de Recerca de Catalunya (Fundació I-CERCA) Members Dr. Aïna Plaza Tesias Member of the Board of Trustees. General Director of Health Planning of the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Mr. Joan Gómez Pallarès Member of the Board of Trustees. General Direction of the Research department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Dr. Assumpció Malgosa Morera Member of the Board of Trustees. Vice-Rector for Research and Transference of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Dr. Albert Salazar i Soler Member of the Board of Trustees. Manager of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital. Ms. Montserrat Llavayol i Giralt Member of the Board of Trustees. General subdirector of Health Research of the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Mr. Manuel Armengol Carrasco Member of the Board of Trustees. Coordinator of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital University Unit. Dr. Mònica Rodríguez Carballeira Member of the Board of Trustees. Director of the Vall d'Hebron Hospital training programme. Dr. Josep Tabernero Caturla Member of the Board of Trustees. Director of Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology. Dra. Roser Anglès Coll Member of the Board of Trustees. Healthcare Director of ICS Hospitals.
