Joan Balcells Ramirez I am a pediatrician dedicated to pediatric critical care, which is the field were I have developed my career. I have an especial interest in pediatric cardiorespiratory failure, congenital heart disease and heart or lung transplantation in children. My area of expertise is extracorporeal life support (ECMO and ventricular assist devices). I am the director of the Pediatric Critical Care Department since 2011 and of the Pediatric & Neonatal ECMO Program since 2007. Institutions of which they are part Predoctoral researcher Clinical Research/Innovation in Pneumonia & Sepsis (CRIPS) Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca Head of Section Paediatric Intensive Care Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital Email
I was born in Barcelona and I got my medical degree from the School of Medicine of Universidad de Navarra (1987-1993). I specialized in Pediatrics at Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (1994-1997) and I took my doctoral degree (PhD) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I have worked at de Pediatric Critical Care Department of Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron since I finished my training in pediatrics. I have worked as a consultant in pediatric critical care and in the pediatric and neonatal transport team. I am the director of the Pediatric & Neonatal ECMO program since 2007 and the director of the Pediatric Critical Care Department since 2011. I am an associated professor of pediatrics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2016. My research interests focus on extracorporeal life support, anti-thrombotic therapy and severe infection in children.
Projects ASCEND (ARDS in Children and ECMO initiation strategies impact on Neuro-Development) IP: Joan Balcells Ramirez Collaborators: - Funding agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding: 9078.48 Reference: ASCEND_NIH-PA-19-056_2021 Duration: 07/07/2021 - 30/06/2025 SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses in childhood: different approaches to define predictive models for their diagnosis and epidemiological evolution IP: Antoni Soriano Arandes Collaborators: Jorgina Vila Soler, Joan Balcells Ramirez, Núria Worner Tomasa, Clara Franco Jarava, Cristina Andrés Vargés Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3 Funding: 161075 Reference: 202134 Duration: 23/09/2021 - 22/09/2024 Descripción de un nuevo protocolo institucional para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de las coinfecciones bacterianas en pacientes menores de 6 meses con bronquiolitis grave. IP: Joan Balcells Ramirez Collaborators: - Funding agency: Funding: Reference: PR(AMI)307/2018 Duration: - Factores pronósticos en pacientes pediátricos quemados que requieren hospitalización: análisis unicéntrico IP: Joan Balcells Ramirez Collaborators: - Funding agency: Funding: Reference: PR(AMI)386/2018 Duration: - Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next page › Last page »
