This year, the COMB awarded the Dr. Joan Carles Ferreres Piñas, in the Medical Education category. Dr. Ferreres is the director of the Pathological Anatomy service and a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona since 2006. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Barcelona. He was assistant physician at the Pathological Anatomy service at Parc Taulí from 1992 to 2004. After a few years at the Vall d'Hebron hospital, in 2016 he returned to Parc Taulí as director of the Pathological Anatomy service. He specializes in pediatric, fetal and neonatal pathology, a field in which few people work. Between 2012 and 2017 he participated in the International Pediatric Pathology Association. He is currently president of the Catalan Society of Pathological Anatomy. The distinction of the COMB recognizes its great trajectory in Medical Education.
El Dr. Manuel Cervantes Garcia, recently retired, has been awarded in the category of Hospital Care Medicine. Dr. Cervantes retired last February after more than 40 years at Parc Taulí. He graduated in Medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and is a specialist in Internal Medicine at Vall d'Hebron Hospital. He started working in 1983 at Urgèncias del Parc Taulí. He dedicated himself to infectious diseases from 1985, when the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in Sabadell. In 1989 he moved to Hospitalization as section head of Internal Medicine and, subsequently, of the Infectious Diseases service since its creation, occupying its direction from 2013 until his retirement. He always insisted on the importance of direct contact with patients, which is why the COMB has distinguished him in this category.
El Dr. Miguel Marco Same, retired in 2019, he has been awarded in the Humanities, Cooperation and Management category by COMB. He graduated in Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and specialized in neurology at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. For more than 35 years he worked at Parc Taulí, from 1984 to 2019, always in the Neurology Service. And, more specifically, in the last 15 years with patients with multiple sclerosis. For years he has been researching the history of medicine, publishing different books; one about Spanish Republican doctors exiled to the Soviet Union (2010), a biography of Marcelino Pascua (2018) and a biography about the Russian surgeon Sergei Yudin (2024). The Spanish Society of Neurology recognized him with the History of Medicine Award 2022. Now, the recognition is from the College of Doctors of Barcelona.
