More than one hundred clinicians, researchers, colleagues and friends attended the homage to Dr. Albert Pahissa, head of the Infectious Diseases Service and the group with the same name at Vall d’Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), because of his retirement. “He is a great professional in all aspects: he is an excellent doctor, professor, researcher and manager”, pronounced at the beginning of the session Dr. Joan Comella, VHIR’s director. Dr. Jaume Roigé, director of Patient Care at the hospital, and Dr. Benito Almirante, who has worked with Dr. Pahissa since the beginning and now is the new head of the Infectious Diseases Service and the research group, also agreed with Dr. Comella’s statement. Dr. Pahissa graduated in Medicine in 1972 at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and got his PhD in 1979. He started his career at Vall d’Hebron in 1978 and ten years later he was promoted Head of Section and professor of Medicine at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 1990 he created the first Laboratory of Experimental Research applied to Infectious Diseases. Eight years later he was promoted head of the first Infectious Diseases Service at Vall d’Hebron.Since then, thanks to his leadership skills he has encouraged distant research lines as well as projects of International Health that are not only conducted at VHIR, but also in Drassanes (Barcelona), "http://www.vhir.org/salapremsa/noticies/noticies_detall.asp?Idioma=en&mv1=5&mv2=3&mh1=0&mh2=0&mh3=0&mh4=0&ms=0&any=2013&num=226" Angola and many other regions around the world.