Jose Ibeas, MD, PhD

Doctor of Medicine (Ph.D.). Master’s Degree in Evidence-based Medicine. Postgraduate in Big Data Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Life Sciences.

Currently Master Consultant at the Nephrology Department and Director of the Clinical, Interventional and Computational Nephrology Group (CICN) of the Research and Innovation Institute of the Parc Taulí University Hospital (www.tauli.cat/cicn). Co-Director of the Mixed Unit CICN – School of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Coordinator of the Vascular Access Program of the Parc Taulí University Hospital (www.tauli.cat/vap). Great deal of experience in Chronic Kidney Disease and Vascular Access in the field of care, teaching, research and innovation, with more than 500 communications and lectures at national and international congresses and several national and international publications, the direction of Doctoral Theses; and recipient of 13 awards. Member of the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Hospital Universitari Parc Taulí.

Secretary and Coordinator-Elect of the Artificial Intelligence working group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology. Co-Director of the Master in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Health of Parc Taulí University Hospital & School of Engineering of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (www.tauli.cat/ias).

Vice-President and President-Elect of the Spanish Multidisciplinary Group on Vascular Access (GEMAV) (https://gemav.org). Past-President of the Vascular Access Society (VAS) (https://www.vascularaccesssociety.com). Past-member of the council of the International Committee of the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology.

Secretary of the Vascular Access Working Group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology. Member of the Vascular Access Working Group of the Catalan Society of Nephrology. Council of the Interventional Nephrology working group of the Spanish Society of Nephrology. Chair of the Work Group for the Clinical Guidelines on Vascular Access of the GEMAV, member of the European Vascular Access Guidelines Group of the ERA-EDTA and member of the Clinical Practice Guide on Chronic Renal Disease Group of the Spanish National Health System.

Promoter of NephroCloud software for vascular access management (www.nephrocloud.net) and Anais Medical for Anatomical Interventional Simulation Models (www.anaismedical.com) for training in medical invasive procedures.