HM King Juan Carlos I has congratulated Laureano Molins López-Rodó, doctor in Medicine and Surgery and chief of Thoracic Surgery at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, for his admission as full academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors-Barcelona 1914 (RAED ), which was held on 23 February in Barcelona. His Majesty also acknowledges in his message the work of the RAED and extends the congratulations to his introducer, the full academician Pedro Clarós.