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Organizational structure

Organization chart

General Assembly

The general assembly is the body of maximum direction, management and representation of the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute. Among its fundamental activities is to approve the annual economic budget, as well as the scientific and management program of the Institute.

By the Health department
Miren Lorea Bilbao Artetxe
Deputy Minister of Health Administration and Financing
Presidency
By the Basque Innovation and Research Foundation (BIOEF)
Iñaki Gutierrez Ibarluzea
Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation
Secretary
By Osakidetza
Susana Lopez Altuna
General Director of Osakidetza
By the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Gotzone Barandika Argoitia
Vice-rector for Scientific Development and Transfer
By the BBK Foundation
Xabier Sagredo Ormaza
President of the BBK Foundation

Executive commission

The Board of Directors of the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute is one of the governing bodies of the Institute, and is in charge of making decisions delegated to it by the General Assembly.

By the Health department
Iñaki Gutierrez Ibarluzea
Director of Health Research, Innovation and Evaluation
Presidency
By Osakidetza
Mª Luz Marqués González
Managing Director OSI Ezkerralde-Enkarterri-Cruces
By the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Gotzone Barandika Argoitia
Vice-Rector for Transfer and Internationalization
By the Basque Innovation and Research Foundation (BIOEF)
Susana Belaustegui Ituarte
Director of the R+D+i Management Area
Secretary

External scientific committee

The External Scientific Committee (CCE) of the Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, is a body made up of prestigious professionals and international reference in the fields of knowledge of the Institute itself.

Prof. Dr. Juan Viña Ribes
Professor at the University of Valencia – INCLIVA
President
Prof. Dra. Ángeles Almeida Parra
IBSAL Scientific Deputy Director
CSIC-USAL Researcher
Prof. Dra. Cristina Avendaño Solá
Researcher - Puerta de Hierro Hospital
Prof. Dra. Ana Lluch Hernández
Professor at the University of Valencia – INCLIVA
Prof. Dr. Juan Tovar Larrucea
Professor - Hospital La Paz in Madrid
Prof. Dra. Silvia Bolland
NIH - Chief, Autoimmunity and Functional Genomics Section

Research commission

The IIS Biobizkaia Research Commission is the Institute's main scientific advisory body.

Its mission is to plan scientific research, ensure the coherence and continuity of the prioritized research areas, share experiences, results and progress of the open research areas, prepare reports related to scientific projects, and ensure that research that carried out throughout the Institute conform to the general ethical principles that should inspire it.

Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific Director - IIS Biobizkaia
Associate professor of the department of neurosciences - UPV/EHU
President
Itziar Astigarraga Aguirre
Head of Pediatrics Service - HUC
Associate Professor Pediatrics Department - UPV/EHU
Sendoa Ballesteros Peña
Nurse – OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Nursing department associate professor - UPV/EHU
José Ramón Bilbao Catalá
Associate Professor Department of Genetics, Physical Anthropology and Animal Physiology - UPV/EHU
Sabas Boyero Durán
Associate doctor of the neurology service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Jon Cacicedo Fernández de Bobadilla
Head of Radiation Oncology Service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery and Radiology and Physical Medicine of the UPV/EHU
Marcelo Calabozo Raluy
Associate doctor of the Rheumatology Service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Head of specialized training unit - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Ana Catalán Alcántara
Physician attached to the psychiatry service - OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Associate professor of the department of neurosciences - UPV/EHU
Pedro Carrascal Rueda
Director of the platform of patient organizations (POP)
Member of the European Patients' Forum Ethics Committee
María Luz del Valle Ortega
Degree in Computer Engineering and Medicine and Surgery
Director of Management and Organization - IIS Biobizkaia
Ignacio Díez González
Associate Physician of the Cardiology Service - OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Associate professor of the department of medicine - UPV/EHU
María del Mar Freijo Guerrero
Head of pneumology service section - OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Juan Carlos García-Moncó Carra
Head of neurology service – OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Interim labor professor neuroscience department - UPV/EHU
Juan Carlos García Ruiz
Hematology and hemotherapy service coordinator - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Associate professor department of medicine - UPV/EHU
Blanca Gener Querol
Head of genetics service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Susana González Larragán
Librarian - Documentalist
Jose Ignacio Landaluce Lauzurica
Medical director – RSMB/BOMS
Ainara López Pardo
Pre-Doc Researcher - IIS Biobizkaia
Leyre Madariaga Domínguez
Physician attached to the Pediatrics/nephrology service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Associate professor department of pediatrics - UPV/EHU
María Purificación Martínez del Prado
Head of medical oncology service section - OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Associate professor of medicine department - UPV/EHU
Roberto Matorras Weinig
Head of section Obstetrics-gynecology and oncology - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Professor department of obstetrics and gynecology - UPV/EHU
José Javier Meana Martínez
Professor department of pharmacology - UPV/EHU
Santiago Mintegui Raso
Head of section of the pediatric emergency service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Full professor in the department of pediatrics - UPV/EHU
Edurne Omaetxebarria Legarra
Medical director - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Iñigo Pomposo Gastelu
Head of neurology service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Esther Pulido Herrero
Physician attached to the emergency department – OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Alfredo Rodríguez-Antigüedad Zarrantz
Head of neurology service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Iago Rodríguez Lago
Associate doctor digestive service - OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
María Blanco Zapata
Nursing Director of the Gorliz Hospital
Ibon Rodríguez Sánchez
Cardiology service associate physician – OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Guillermo Ruiz Irastorza
Head of section of the internal medicine autoimmune diseases service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Full professor department of medicine - UPV/EHU
José Luis Sánchez Menoyo
Associate doctor of the neurology service - OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Rosario Sánchez Pernaute
Coordinator of the Reprogramming and neural regeneration group - IIS Biobizkaia
Verónica Tíscar González
Research and innovation coordinator - OSI Bilbao-Basurto

Permanent research commission

Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific Director - IIS Biobizkaia
Associate professor of the department of neurosciences - UPV/EHU
President
Itziar Astigarraga Aguirre
Head of Pediatrics Service - HUC
Associate Professor Pediatrics Department - UPV/EHU
Jon Cacicedo Fernández de Bobadilla
Head of Radiation Oncology Service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery and Radiology and Physical Medicine of the UPV/EHU
Ana Catalán Alcántara
Physician attached to the psychiatry service - OSI Bilbao-Basurto
Associate professor of the department of neurosciences - UPV/EHU
Santiago Mintegui Raso
Head of section of the pediatric emergency service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Full professor in the department of pediatrics - UPV/EHU
Esther Pulido Herrero
Physician attached to the emergency department – OSI Barrualde-Galdakao
Alfredo Rodríguez-Antigüedad Zarrantz
Head of neurology service - OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Rosario Sánchez Pernaute
Coordinator of the Reprogramming and neural regeneration group - IIS Biobizkaia

Management

Contact details of the Management

Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific Director of the IIS Biobizkaia
Telephone contact: 846073 | 946006073
María Luz del Valle Ortega
Director of Organization and Systems of the IIS Biobizkaia
Telephone contact: 846073 | 946006073
Ana Angulo Reigosa
Director of Economic Management and Human Resources of the IIS Biobizkaia
Telephone contact: 846073 | 946006073

Clinical Research Ethics Committee

For the management and evaluation of clinical trials in the Basque Country, there is an autonomous Clinical Research Ethics Committee (CEIC). Locally, the Biobizkaia Institute has a specific CEIC for single-center trial projects, which offers its services both to the Institute and Hospital itself, as well as to the San Eloy Hospital, Gorliz Hospital and the Ezkerraldea and Uribe-Kosta Primary Care regions.

The CEICs have their powers and activity regulated by the regulations of the different Public Administrations, European, state and autonomous.

José Ignacio Pijoán Zubizarreta
President
Rita Sainz de Rozas Aparicio
Pharmaceutical Primary Care
Vice president
Iciar Alfonso Farnós
Clinical pharmacologist. Health Department
Adolfo González Calles
Technician of Economic-financial management
Mikel Latorre Guisasola
Technician of Quality
Pilar Bonachía Caballero
 
Francisco José Álvarez Díaz
Researcher of the Neonatology group - IIS Biobizkaia
Elena Bereciartua Bastarrica
 
Fermín Labayen Beraza
 
Marta Montejo Fernández
 
Vanesa Regúlez Campo
 
Patricia Zaballa Erice
 
Ainhoa Elosegui de Pérdigo
 

Relevant documents

Animal Welfare Committee - Technical Evaluation Committee (OEBA-CET)

María Luz del Valle Ortega
Director of Management and Organization - IIS Biobizkaia
President
María Carmen Rey Santano
Technician responsible for the Animalario platform - IIS Biobizkaia
Secretary
Edurne Omaetxebarria Legarra
Medical Director OSI EEC
Eunate Arana Arri
Head of the scientific coordination - IIS Biobizkaia
María Victoria Geijo Vázquez
Animal Platform Manager - Neiker
Iván Olano Grasa
Licensed in medicine
Ainhoa Bilbao Leis
Animal Platform Manager - IIS Biobizkaia

Innovation commission

The Innovation Commission is an advisory body shared between the Institute and the organizations. Its objective is to support organizations in promoting innovation, the generation of shared creativity/innovation processes, the sharing of lines of innovation and the activities carried out, as well as the consensus of strategic projects in relation to innovation.

M. Luz del Valle Ortega
Director of Organization and Systems of the IIS Biobizkaia and innovation leader
President
Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific Director of the IIS Biobizkaia
Tatiana Izquierdo García
Quality manager at IIS Biobizkaia.
Secretariat of the Innovation Commission
M. Luz Marqués González
Managing Director OSI Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Jesús Larrañaga Garitano
Managing Director OSI Bilbao Basurto
Jon Guajardo
Managing Director of OSI Barrualde Galdakao
Ana Isabel Guinea García
Quality Technician of Gorliz Hospital
Itziar Larrea
Managing Director Hospital Santa Marina
Jesus Manuel Suárez Romay
Managing Director of OSI Uribe
Aratxu Lozano Otero
Managing Director of the Bizkaia Mental Health Network
Inés Gallego Camiña
OSI Innovation Reference Ezkerraldea-Enkarterri-Cruces
Verónica Tiscar González
Reference Innovation OSI Bilbao Basurto
David Cantero González
OSI Innovation Reference Barrualde Galdakao
Sendoa Ballesteros Peña
Reference Innovation Hospital of Santa Marina
Conchi Moreno Calvete
Reference for innovation Mental Health Network of Bizkaia
Lourdes Vivanco Gómez
Medical Director of the OSI Barakaldo Sestao
Virginia Villaverde Aguirre
Reference innovation OSI Uribe
Vanesa Martín González
OSI Innovation Reference Barakaldo Sestao

Communication and disclosure commission

María Luz del Valle Ortega
Director of Management and Organization - IIS Biobizkaia
Presidenta
Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific director - IIS Biobizkaia

Training commission

Mar Mendibe Bilbao
Scientific Director of the IIS Biobizkaia
President
María Luz del Valle Ortega
Director of Organization and Systems of the IIS Biobizkaia
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