Francisco J. Medrano received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, in 1988 and 1997, respectively. He has been a Specialist in internal medicine with the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, since 1994. He was a Master in hospital management in 2008, and in quantitative methods for evidence-based medicine in 2009. Since 2010, he has been with the Departamento Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, where he is currently a Professor of medicine, and with the Instituto de Biomedicina de Seville (IBiS), Seville, where he is a Co-Leader of the Research Group in Clinical Epidemiology and Vascular Risk. He has participated in 30 national and international research projects and has authored more than 75 articles in scientific journals indexed in the SCI, 15 books, and 25 book chapters. His current research interests include epidemiology and pathophysiology of infectious diseases and clinical research and development of health technologies in heart and lung diseases. Dr. Medrano is a member of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) of epidemiology and public health and the thematic network of innovation in health technologies.