Numerary Member
Human Sciences: PhD in Theology and Philosophy
Date of admission: March 18, 2025
Admission speech: «Love Reveals the Person. The Logic of Conjugal Love»
Response speech: H.E. Dr. Luis Giner Tarrida, PhD in Medicine and Surgery
Outstanding career: One of the leading experts in philosophical anthropology and bioethics applied to the health sciences. Her thought advocates a profoundly humanistic and transcendent vision of medicine and life.
Dr. MARÍA VICTORIA ROQUÉ SÁNCHEZ
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
- PhD in Theology from the University of Navarra (1982) and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (2005).
- Trained in Bioethics at the Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia “A. Gemelli” – Università Cattolica (Rome).
- Since 1980, she has attended the first International Theology Symposia at the University of Navarra, where she learned the importance of interdisciplinary dialogue.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- She took part in the founding of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) and was a member of the Pedagogical Commission that developed the University’s Educational Project.
- Associate Professor of Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics and Bioethics in Health Sciences at UIC.
- Professor at the Institute of Neurological and Gerontological Sciences at UIC.
- Lecturer in University Master’s Degrees: Physiotherapy and Scientific Evidence, Nursing Sciences, Basic Research in Dentistry and Biomedicine, Bioethics, and Marriage and Family Sciences.
- Director of the Bioethics Study Centre at UIC.
- President of the Ethics Committee and member of the Plenary of the Permanent Governing Board of UIC.
- President of the 10th Congress of the Spanish Association of Bioethics and Medical Ethics.
- Founding member, representing UIC, of the International Federation of Personalist Bioethics (FIBIP).
- Her academic career is marked by the search for original and distinctive proposals in the design of teaching and research objectives in university education, such as the inclusion of transversal subjects (anthropology, professional ethics, bioethics) in Health Sciences studies.
- She has participated in numerous national and international research projects.
PUBLICATIONS
Author and co-author of numerous interdisciplinary scientific articles, supervisor of doctoral theses, and author of several books:
- “Doctor and Patient: The Human Side of Medicine” (2006).
- “The Meaning of Dying in Living” (2013).
- “Caring for the Vulnerable Body, Perfecting the Human” (2016).
