Emeritus Member

Health Sciences: PhD in Medicine and Surgery

Date of Admission: 18 September 2019

Admission Speech: Molecular Genetics and Biocronogerontology in the Postgenomic Era. Sirtuins. Anti-Aging. Klotho. Are Sirtuins the long-sought “Elixir of Youth”? The Galenic Lineage of the Corominas Family (200 Years)

Reply: H.E. Dr. Pedro Clarós Blanch, PhD in Medicine and Surgery, PhD in Pharmacy, PhD in Basic and Applied Neuroscience

Dr. AUGUST COROMINAS VILARDELL

  • Born in Banyoles on April 20, 1940.
  • He belongs to a family of five generations of physicians.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Degree in Medicine with the distinction of Excellent, 1964.
  • PhD in Medicine from the University of Barcelona, Extraordinary Award, 1966.
  • Specialist in Clinical Analysis (1970), Hematology and Hemotherapy, and Clinical Biochemistry (1985).

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

  • Assistant Professor of Human Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona (1970–1974).
  • Professor of General Physiology, Biological Chemistry and Special Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Murcia (1974).
  • Chair Professor of Human Physiology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, based at the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital.
  • Director of the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona (1979–1985).
  • Master’s Professor at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa.
  • Lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Nutrition and Mediterranean Diet courses.
  • Professor in the UAB Summer Courses: “Healthy Eating and Well-being” and “The Taboo of Death”.
  • Professor at the University for the Third Age (UB, UAB, and UPF).
  • Lipids and Nutrition, within the Research Programme of the 3rd Economic and Social Development Plan (1972–1975).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Main books and monographs:
    • Lipids and Lipoproteins, Ed. Científico-Médica, Barcelona (1972).
    • Lipids: Laboratory and Clinical Applications, Ed. Toray (1973).
    • Enzymatic Impact of Stress, Ed. 62 (1975).
    • Environmental and Space Pathology, Ed. Fargraf de España (1976).
    • Atherosclerosis, Epidemic of the 20th Century, Ed. Esteve Manresa (1978).
    • Elements of Nutrition for Students of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Nursing, University of Barcelona Press (1979).
    • Amino Acids: Relevance in Physiology, Pathology and Therapeutics, Ed. Fargraf (1975).
    • Applied Special Physiology, Ed. Científico-Médica (1978).
  • PhD Theses supervised: 78 (Barcelona and Murcia).
  • Master’s Dissertations supervised (UAB, Lisbon, IUSC): 135.
  • Virtual courses taught: 355.
  • Doctoral courses: 32.
  • Published works: 203.
  • Author of the TV programme “Health in the Basket”.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

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