Our professionals
Professional career
MD in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1991).
Specialist in Rheumatology via the MIR pathway at Fundación Jiménez Díaz, UAM (1995).
PhD in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1998).
Associate Head of the Rheumatology Department at Fundación Jiménez Díaz (2017–2025).
Coordinator of the Cross-Departmental Autoimmune Disease Unit at Fundación Jiménez Díaz (2021–2025).
RESEARCH AREAS
Principal Investigator in numerous research projects funded by ISCIII, Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation, Boehringer Ingelheim, MSD, among others, focused on autoimmune diseases, lupus, pulmonary fibrosis, epigenetic mechanisms, and rheumatoid synovitis.
Participation as local PI in international multicenter clinical trials (Novartis, AstraZeneca, Caribou Biosciences, Boehringer Ingelheim, etc.).
Highlighted areas:
- Innate immunity and epigenetic mechanisms in autoimmune diseases
- Biomarkers in autoimmune interstitial lung diseases
- Instrumental techniques applied to autoimmune disorders
Activity
In teaching
- Honorary Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UAM (2015–present).
- Faculty member in the Master’s Program in Clinical Rheumatology Update (ProReuma), Rheumatology, Editorial Panamericana SA, Spain (2023–2024).
- Faculty member in the Master’s Program in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology. Rey Juan Carlos University (2023–2024).
- Faculty member in the University Expert Diploma in Interstitial Lung Disease at the Complutense University of Madrid (2018–2020).
- Instructor in postgraduate teaching programs including PhD courses and training courses of the Spanish Society of Rheumatology, Rheumatology Society of the Community of Madrid, University of Chiropractic, continuing education programs for primary care physicians, Rencontre Marseillaise du Rhumatologie, seminars of Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Fundación Quironsalud, Neumomadrid, CIVIS University Project, International Congress of Autoantibodies.
In research
- She has developed an extensive scientific career with a particular interest in systemic autoimmune diseases. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Experimental Rheumatology at the University Hospital of Zurich, under the supervision of Dr. Steffen Gay, focused on the development of an in vitro 3D model for the study of rheumatoid synovitis.