MD & PhD in Medicine. Senior Consultant at the Internal Medicine Department of the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona. Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine of the Universitat de Barcelona. Group Leader of the research area “Cardiovascular risk, nutrition and aging”, of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and the CIBER OBN.

Professor Ramon Estruch is Senior Consultant of the Internal Medicine Service of the Hospital Clinic (Barcelona) since 2002. He is also Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona since 1996, Member of the Board of Directors of the CIBER of Obesity and Nutrition of the Health Institute Carlos III, and member of the Advisory Board of the ERAB (European Foundation for Alcohol Research) of the European Union since 2010.

He has published more than 530 papers in high impact journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, Circulation and American Journal of Nutrition, among others. In this context, it is worth noting that the results of the study on the Effects of the Mediterranean Diet on the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease published in The New England Journal of Medicine in April 2013 was the second most read scientific article in the world in 2013. In addition, in 2018 and 2019 he has been named one of the most influential scientists in the world ("Highly Cited Researcher" by Claryvate Analytics).