Maria Jose Martinez-Zapata

Mª José Martínez Zapata is a medical doctor from the University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB, 2006), graduated from the University of Barcelona (1988), and is a specialist in Clinical Pharmacology trained at Hospital Vall d'Hebron (HVH, 1993-96). She is a senior researcher associate of Miguel Servet II, funded by ISCIII, working at the Institute of Research in Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. She is an investigator of group 43 of the CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), and the consolidated Catalan Clinical and Applied Health Research Group (2021 SGR 00982). She is a member of the Iberoamerican Cochrane Network, Cochrane Collaboration (CC), and the Spanish Society of Clinical Pharmacology. Her doctoral thesis, presented in 2006 with cum laude mention, was directed by Dr. Luisa Ibañez Mora from the Service of Clinical Pharmacology of HVH. She has participated in the design and coordination of different research projects, including more than 20 independent randomized clinical trials (RCTs), 38 systematic reviews, and 4 observational studies (cohort studies). She has also participated in 33 competitive projects, 16 of which she has been the leading researcher. Additionally, she has collaborated with a European Breast Cancer Guideline. Their investigations are focused on assessing the safety and efficacy of interventions to treat chronic venous insufficiency, platelet-rich plasma for healing wounds, bleeding related to surgery (including tranexamic acid and other interventions), and anti-vascular growth factor for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. From 2016, as a Miguel Servet researcher, she has developed a clinical research line in the safety of patients undergoing surgery. She has developed studies as PI, founded with competitive public grants, and obtained human resources from ISCIII. Furthermore, she is collaborating with groups from Canada (Population Health Research Institute of Hamilton and Hospital Saint Michel of Toronto) in international RCTs focused on perioperative medicine. Other international collaborations established, are with a Chilean group of pediatric dentistry and the Cochrane Ecuador. She has published more than 100 articles and three-chapter books. She has 4284 citations, with an h-index of 33 (Schooler Google data). She has presented more than 40 works at Congresses. She has participated as a peer-reviewer in different medical journals. She has been part of the organization and evaluation Committee of Communications in three international Congresses related to Cochrane Collaboration (Madrid 2011, Santiago de Chile 2019, and Iberoamerican Network meeting in Barcelona 2022). She supervised 5 doctoral and 3 Master theses. She is supervising 3 doctoral and 3 Master theses. She is a lecturer in three master’s Programs from the UAB (Spain), the UIC (Spain), and UTE (Ecuador). She is visiting professor at the University La Frontera (Chile). She has participated as an expert in the scientific and strategic evaluation of the actions of the ISCIII during the years 2021-2023.