Numerary Member
Health Sciences: Doctor in Medicine
Date of admission: December 20, 2011
Admission speech: “Certainties and Uncertainties in the Diagnosis of Skin Cancer: From Molecular Biology to Non-Invasive Diagnosis”
Reply speech: Dr. Josep Llort Brull
Outstanding career: A pioneer in the development of early diagnostic technologies for skin cancer and in the application of digital dermatoscopy and artificial intelligence to medical diagnosis. An international authority on melanoma and skin cancer, he has received numerous scientific awards for his contribution to modern dermatology and precision medicine.
Dr. JOSEP MALVEHY GUILERA
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduated in 1992 from the University of Medicine of Barcelona, Spain, and obtained his specialization diploma in Dermatology and Venereology in 1996.
- Completed his PhD in Medicine at the University of Barcelona in 2006, focused on diagnosis and genetics of melanoma.
- His main fields of specialization are skin tumors, with a special focus on non-invasive diagnosis, genetic susceptibility, and treatment of malignant skin tumors (melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer).
- His areas of biomedical research and innovation include:
- Diagnosis and prognosis of skin cancer using non-invasive techniques (digital dermoscopy monitoring, confocal microscopy, OCT, HD-OCT, impedance, and spectroscopy), as well as their application in Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networking).
- Treatment of skin cancer and cancerization fields.
- Genetics of cancer and susceptibility to skin cancer.
- Skin carcinogenesis, telemedicine, and social media in medicine.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Consultant at the Department of Dermatology and Director of the Melanoma Unit at Hospital Clínic of Barcelona since 2003.
- Consultant at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (USA).
- Master’s professor at the University of Barcelona, Department of Medicine.
- Since 2013, Director of the Technology Group of the ISIC (Imaging of the Skin Collaborative Group) and consultant to the Technical Committee of the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC).
- Researcher at the IDIBAPS (August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute).
- Researcher and Director of the DIAGNOPTICS project, a European photonics consortium for skin diagnostics.
- Director of more than 10 international courses and conferences, including 7 World Melanoma Congresses, and lecturer in skin cancer courses (over 250 lectures since 1998).
- Professor of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology since 2003 and of the American Academy of Dermatology since 2004.
- He has participated as a lecturer in more than 140 international congresses and over 110 national ones.
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of more than 200 scientific articles.
- Editor and lead author of major skin cancer treatises: Principles of Dermoscopy, Handbook of Dermoscopy, Atlas of Dermatoscopy, Atlas of Confocal Microscopy.
- Author of over 30 chapters in scientific books.