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On the occasion of World Health Day, Dr Boi Ruiz, director of the University Institute for Patient Care at UIC Barcelona, highlights the need to move towards a healthcare system that combines clinical excellence with person-centred care, as promoted by the affective–effective model embedded at UIC Barcelona. This model, which brings together quality of care and the humanisation of healthcare, is one of the defining hallmarks of professionals trained at the University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Dr Boi Ruiz led the round-table discussion “The challenge of incorporating, measuring and sustaining innovation”, during Biomedical Innovation Day, one of the activities of the ConCiencia initiative promoted by Johnson & Johnson. The event took place in the Senate.

The readers and editorial board of this prestigious publication recognised the use of simulation as a teaching tool in the master’s degree directed by Dr Boi Ruiz

A consensus document has been presented as a roadmap to transform the approach to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), as part of the RETAR project led by the University Institute for Patient Care at UIC Barcelona in collaboration with the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie

Experts from various fields gathered to reflect on current challenges in mental health and the need to move toward integrative, humanistic, and evidence-based models, during a conference organized by the University’s Institute of Patient Care

On International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on 8 March every year, we spoke to women in academia with positions of responsibility at UIC Barcelona and asked them to share some thoughts on the importance of female leadership at the University and the future of our students, the leaders of tomorrow.

Doctors Carles Blay, Carme Cabezas and Jaume Sellarés, lecturers on the University Master's Degree in Health Management, and lawyer Francesc José Maria, lecturer on the Patient Advocacy course, are among the list of professionals recognised with the prestigious award given by the Generalitat de Catalunya

The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid once again hosted the Forum promoted by Johnson & Johnson and Cátedras en Red, which is based on the legacy of Dr Albert J. Jovell, founder of the UIC Barcelona University Patient Institute, focused on the humanisation of healthcare to improve the lives of patients

The Affective-Effective Model Awards were developed at UIC Barcelona by the University Institute for Patient Care, known as the Albert J. Jovell Institute in 2014 and sponsored by Janssen. Currently they have the support of Cátedras en Red, a network of representative chairs from Spanish universities

The conference was organised by the University Institute for Patient Care in collaboration with GSK, under the framework of Vaccine Classroom activities. “Vaccination challenges in Horizon 2030” addressed vaccination at every stage of life