Professor Lluís Masana Marín

Sant Joan University Hospital
C. Sant Llorenç, 21
E-43201 Reus
Spain

Tel: +34-977-75 93 66
Fax: +34-977-75 93 22
E-mail: luis.masana@urv.cat

Biography

Lluís Masana Marín. MD. PhD. is Professor of Medicine and Head of the Internal Medicine Department and Lipid and Cardiovascular Risk Unit at the University Hospital Sant Joan. He is also Director of the“Research Institute Health Sciences-IRCIS” at the University Rovira & Virgili (Reus-Tarragona) Spain.

Professor Masana received his degree in Medicine in 1976 from the Barcelona Autonomous University with the honour of “Premio Extraordinario Licenciatura” (Most Distinguished Graduate). In 1980 he completed his PhD. with a thesis entitled: "HDL and disease".

Professor Masana became Specialist in Internal Medicine (Valle Hebron Hospital-Barcelona) in 1981. From 1983-1984 he was a Post doc in Lipid Metabolism Disturbances at Saint Thomas Hospital Medical School-London working with Prof Barry Lewis in the Chemical Pathology Department. The subject of his research was Lipoprotein kinetics and LDL receptors. 

The focus of his work and main fields of interest are:

  • Lipid metabolism diseases
  • Arteriosclerosis pathogenesis
  • Vascular Medicine and Metabolism
  • Lipoprotein oxidation
  • Molecular biology of hyperlipidemia
  • Metabolic syndrome and endothelial function
  • Subclinical arteriosclerosis
  • Arteriosclerosis and HIV infection 

Professor Masana has been an EAS member since 1991 and has participated in almost all of the EAS Meetings since joining the soicety. He collaborated with the EAS as the President of the Spanish Society of Arteriosclerosis (2000-2004). He was also a member of the Scientific Committee for the Seville and Helsinki EAS Meetings. Currently he is a member of the EAS Election committe.  

He has also collaborated with the International Society of Arteriosclerosis, on their international consulting board. He was also an active member of the European Lipoprotein Club (1986 to 2000) and was a member of its executive committee for four years during the presidency of Guido Francesccini.

In addition to many awards and honours Professor Masana has published 155 original research papers (PubMed : Masana L) on lipids and arteriosclerosis.