Pilar Brito-Zerón

Pilar Brito Zerón was born in Puebla, Mexico and currently lives in Barcelona, Spain. She is an Internist with experience in the management of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases. ACADEMIC MERITS: • Bachelor degree in Medicine. Faculty of Medicine, Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico, May 14, 2003 • Homologated title to Bachelor in Medicine. Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, January 29, 2004 • Doctor in Medicine. University of Barcelona ("Excellent Cum-laude"), July 21, 2006 • National Program M.I.R. (number 166). Specialty of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic Barcelona (May 2007 - May 2012) • Specialist in Internal Medicine. Title issued by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, December 17, 2012 CLINICAL MERITS: • Member of the clinical assistance team in the Department of Systemic Autoimmune Diseases since 2002, with own medical consultation since 2012 (515 patients, 178 new visits). Performing diagnostic techniques (107 biopsies of minor salivary glands and 13 temporal artery biopsies) • Member of two Clinical Assistance Committees at Hospital Clínic: Interstitial Lung Diseases and Salivary Glands Diseases • Clinical protocols in systemic autoimmune diseases of Hospital Clínic (responsible for the creation of 6 and co-author of other 6 clinical assistance protocols) • National Clinical Guidelines in autoimmune diseases for the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (responsible for the creation of 1 and co-author of 7 more guides) • External reviewer of one Clinical Practice Guidelines of the National System of Health, Ministry of Health, Spain RESEARCH MERITS • Total number of published articles: 99 (1st, 2nd or 3rd author, 52%) • Total impact factor (80 articles): 390.271 • Number of communications in congresses: 186 (64% international, 33 oral communications) • Co -investigator in official competitive projects: 8 • Reviewer of indexed articles for scientific journals: 14 TEACHING MERITS • Invited conferences: 42 (23 international) • Chapters of books with ISBN: 38 (14 international) • Teaching collaborator: 2 Masters in Autoimmune Diseases (UB, UB-SEMI), 2 Postgraduate courses in systemic autoimmune diseases • Director of doctoral thesis: 1 CONTINUING EDICATION MERITS • Assistance to 75 congresses (33 international) • Master in Clinical Investigation Methodology of the University of Barcelona (at present, coursing 3rd module) OTHERS • Representative of the Medical Committee Delegates of Hospital Clínic in representation of the hospital residents (2010-2012) • Awards: Doctorate Extraordinary Award, Bartolomé Cabrer Award to the Best Doctoral Thesis, Juan Vivancos Award to the best Scientific Publication, “Josep Font” Award and National Award to the best Young Internist of year 2011 issued by the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine (SEMI) • Languages: fluency in English (California. Edgewood middle school: 1989-1991, Chaffey high school: 1991-1996, Chaffey College: 1996), French (sufficient level), Catalan (good level)