Dr. José Antonio Lejárcegui Fort

Numerary Member

Social Sciences: Doctor of Medicine and Surgery

Entry date: 4 December 2024

Entrance speech: “Cómo serán o deberían ser los hospitales en el futuro”​ (How hospitals will or should be in the future)

Reply: Dr. Aldo Olcese Santonja, Doctor in Financial Economics

Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Complutense University of Madrid, 1981

Extraordinary Graduation Award, 1982

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery with Cum Laude Honors, Complutense University of Madrid, 1986

Specialist in Internal Medicine
Head of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Fuenlabrada since 2004

Interim Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Rey Juan Carlos University since November 1, 2010.

Accredited as Associate Professor by ANECA, 2013

Tenured Associate Professor, linked position, Rey Juan Carlos University, Field of Knowledge: Medicine, Specialty: Internal Medicine, assigned to the Department of Medicine and Surgery. Center: University Hospital of Fuenlabrada as of July 16, 2019.

Recognized for 3 six-year research periods by ANECA

Professor of Doctoral Courses at Rey Juan Carlos University

Speaker at Summer Courses, Complutense University

Professor in various postgraduate Master’s programs: Clinical Unit Management, Chronic Diseases, Diabetes, etc.

Coordinator of the Medicine degree program at the University Hospital of Fuenlabrada

Director of 8 doctoral theses and 51 Master’s theses

University Expert in Clinical Management, UNED

Master’s in Chronic Diseases

Deputy Medical Director, General Hospital of Móstoles, December 1998 – December 2001

CEO of the Alcorcón Hospital Foundation, October 2003 – April 2004

Medical Director, University Hospital of Fuenlabrada, October 2014 – May 2020

Director, IFEMA Hospital, March – April 2020

Deputy Minister of Public Health and COVID-19 Plan Ministry of Health, Madrid, from May 15, 2020

Deputy Minister of Healthcare and Public Health, July 2021 – September 29, 2022, Ministry of Health

President of the Spanish Society of Internal Medicine, November 2016 – November 2018

President of FACME, December 2019 – December 2020

90 publications in international journals and 132 in national journals

81 presentations at international conferences and 365 at national conferences

Author of book chapters

H-index: 35 with 1,960 citations since 2019 (3,510 total citations). Consulted on Google Scholar, October 2024.