Full Professor of Pharmacology in Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament de Farmacologia, Terapèutica i Toxicologia. Facultat de Veterinària. University Degree: Biological Sciences (UB, 1973), PhD: Biological Sciences (UAB, 1980). Diplomat: Pharmacology (UB, 1979). Diplomat: Veterinary Pharmacology (European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, 1999). Member of the Spanish Committee of Veterinary Drug Evaluation (AEMPS) (1999-2005). Member of the European Committee of Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP/EMA) (1999- 2006). Chairmen of the CVMP group of Antimicrobial Resistances (2002-2005). Member of the European Panel FEEDAP (EFSA) (2003-2007). Member of the Scientific Committee of the AESAN (2003-2007). Expert of the Spanish Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation Projects (1998-2016) (ANEP). Member of the Commission for Evaluation of the Professor Accreditation in the Area of Medicine and Health Sciences (Agència per la Qualitat dels Sistema Universitari Català, 2016)(AQU).
Relevant positions: General Director of Agricultural and Farming Resources. Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs (2010-2012). Director of Public Health Services in the area of Barcelona Region (2005-2010). Head of Veterinary Medicinal Products Unit, Spanish Agency of Medicinal Products (2000-2005).
Research experience: Kinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and residues of medicinal products in food animals. Toxicokinetics, developmental toxicity and embryo-toxic effects of different chemical products and metabolites. Studies of maximum residue levels and withdrawal periods. PK/PD studies with antimicrobial drugs in farming animals. Most of the research experience has focused on food-producing animals and the clinical use of medicines for their most frequent pathologies. Basic experience in antimicrobial drugs studies in food animals
Risk Assessment: Dossiers of Medicinal products and feed additives (kinetic and safety part assessment): safety evaluation for the human consumer (toxicology, MRL and Withdrawal Periods); environmental risk assessment; kinetic studies on livestock target species and experimental animals (Expertise in CVMP, CODEM-VET and FEEDAP). Dossiers in relation with other products used in food production (additives, preservatives, colorants) (Participation in Scientific Committee of Spanish Food Safety Agency).
Management: Risk assessment, risk management and risk communication and information with particular attention to the specific control programmes of the quality/safety of the production and handling of food and feed. During this period, I have taken over management of outbreaks in humans with different origins (food-borne, environmental, A influenza, the last European/ German E. coli) and animal diseases that may or may not be zoonoses (salmonellosis, bluetongue, avian influenza, dioxins in the feed). I have also assumed the management of the feed part of the “Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed” in Spain.
