Director. Cardiology and Intensive Cardiac Care Department. Full Professor of Cardiology
University Hospital. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
Past-President. Spanish Society of Cardiology
Board Member World Heart Federation 2023-2025
Dr González Juanatey is Head of the Cardiology and UCC Service of the Santiago de Compostela University Hospital Complex (CHUS) and Full Professor of Cardiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC). Dr González Juanatey graduated from the USC School of Medicine. He specialised in Cardiology at the Hospital Clínico de Santiago and completed stays at the University Clinic of Navarra, Karolinska Hospital (Stockholm) and Stanford University (California).
Head of the Cardiology and UCC Service at the University of Santiago de Compostela. The Department under his direction has been awarded as the “Best Cardiology Department in the BIC awards” over the last 8 years. The Santiago Research group was ranked Nº 1 in Spain among the 41 groups integrated in the CIBERCV consortium.
Dr. Gonzalez Juanatey serve as adviser for the Spanish and Portuguese Ministry of Health and is a member of the European Cardiovascular Initiative from the European Parliament. Awarded the 2014 and also this year 2024 as Physician-of-the-Year award in Spain.
As a Professor there, he has supervised over 30 PhD theses. Dr González Juanatey also directs the group of Cardiovascular Research in the CIBERCV consortium. He is former President of the Spanish Society of Cardiology.
Dr González Juanatey has published more than 500 articles accumulating more than 57,000 citations in top international scientific journals. He has also led a multitude of national and international research projects and clinical trials with public and private funding. Currently Board Member in the World Heart Federation