In an extraordinary session held on April 16, the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia has appointed Dr. Teresa Serrano, specialist in the Pathological Anatomy Service of the Bellvitge University Hospital (HUB) and IDIBELL researcher, as a new Corresponding Academic of the institution, attached to the Basic, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences section.

You can recover Dr. Serrano’s reception as a Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy, as well as her entrance speech “The study of Hepatocarcinoma, a way of understanding the evolution of Pathological Anatomy to the present day” in this video https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2P0Vh8YoiI.

The Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia, founded in 1770, exercises advisory functions in health and justice administrations, promotes studies on the History of Catalan Medicine, and organizes conferences on this topic, in addition to promoting debate on current health issues.

Dr. Teresa Serrano has a degree and doctorate in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona. She has been closely linked to the Bellvitge University Hospital, where she completed her residency and has practiced as a physician in the Pathological Anatomy Service since 1992. Between 2012 and 2020, she was head of the Surgical Pathology Section and responsible for the Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Pathology and Liver Transplant Pathology  areas at the HUB since 1995.

Dr. Serrano is also a member of the TGF-beta and cancer research group at IDIBELL and CIBERHED (Networked Biomedical Research Center for Liver and Digestive Diseases). In addition to working as a professor of Pathological Anatomy at the UB, she stands out for her important scientific production, with 117 publications as an author, 23 research projects and a supervised doctoral thesis. Since 2007, she is a member of the Digestive Club of the Spanish Society of Pathological Anatomy.