Graduated in Medicine, from the University of Zaragoza, in 1982. Extraordinary Degree Award.
Doctor of Medicine, from the University of Zaragoza, in 1990. Extraordinary Doctorate Award.
Specialist in the Digestive System, training via MIR, between 1984 and 1988, at the University Clinical Hospital of Zaragoza
Assistant Physician from 1988 to 1990 at the Zaragoza HCU; from 1990 to 2004 the Miguel Servet Hospital in Zaragoza, from 2004 to 2009 HCU in Zaragoza

Head of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Section since 2009, at the Zaragoza HCU (currently continuous)
Associate Professor at the Zaragoza Faculty of Medicine from 1996 to 2016
Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of Zaragoza since 2016
Founding member of GETECCU in 1990, an association in which I have served as member, treasurer, secretary, vice president and president. Currently member.
Founding member of the AEG in 1997, an association in which I have been a member, secretary-treasurer, and vice president. currently member
AGA International Member
Member of the ECCO, an association in which I have been a member of the national representative of Spain, currently a member
Author of more than 250 articles indexed in PUBMED, and of more than 350 articles in general.
Editor of 11 books on the specialty, including the reference texts of GETECCU and the AEG
Author of more than 80 book chapters
More than 400 national and international conferences, including conferences in the following Latin American countries Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Santo Domingo, Panama, Costa Rica, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay
As publications, I would like to highlight that I am the first author of the III edition of the ECCO GUIDE for Crohn’s Disease, and co-author of two other editions, including the current 2020 edition; as well as co-author of the GETECCU Ulcerative Colitis Guide. Especially proud of the GETECCU Resident Courses, which have already trained more than 1,000 doctors, and of having contributed to developing all of GETECCU’s initiatives, among which the ENEIDA database stands out (the seed of the UR-CARE database in development by ECCO, or the Unit accreditation program.
My relationship with America is particularly intense, especially through some Argentine, Uruguayan, Chilean, Venezuelan, Bolivian, Colombian and Brazilian colleagues whom I have had the good fortune to meet, and I would like to mention Alfredo Currás, Guillermo Veitia, Paulo Kotze, Fabiana Miele, Henry Cohen, Carolina Olano, Guido Villagómez, Juan Ricardo Märquez, Alicia Sambuelli, Sócrates Bautista and many others.