Curriculum vitae Josep Vilaseca April 2010

CURRICULUM VITAE JOSEP VILASECA

1. Family Name: Vilaseca

2. First name: Josep
3. Date of birth: 14th July 1971
4. Nationality: Spanish
5. Civil status: Married
6. Education:
INSTITUTION DEGREE(S) OR DIPLOMA(S)
[DATE FROM – DATE TO] OBTAINED
Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health
University of London, UK, July 2009
(DPH) (Distance Learning Programme)
University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, February Master of Business Administration
2008 (MBA)
University of Barcelona, Spain, April 2005 Medical and Surgical Doctor (PhD)
Family and Community Medicine
Ministry of Health. Spain, June 2001
Specialist
University of Barcelona, Spain, July 1995 Medical and Surgical Degree (MD)

Current Studies: MSc Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine (University of London, UK) by distance learning.

7. Language skills: indicate competence on a scale of 1 to 5 (1- excellent; 5 –

basic)

LANGUAGE READING SPEAKING WRITING

Catalan (mother tongue) 1 1 1
Spanish 1 1 1
English 1 1 1
French 1 1 1
Italian 2 3 3
Nepali 5 5 5

8. Membership of professional bodies:

• Academy of Medical Sciences of Catalonia
• Official College of Medicine of Barcelona
• Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC)
Post: Treasurer from 2003 to 2007
• Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine (camFiC)
Post: Vocal from 2000 to 2001

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• European Forum for Primary Care

• Alumni Association, University Pompeu Fabra
 Post: vocal from 2008 to present

9. Other skills:

Full computer literacy (MS Windows, MS Office), statistical packages (SPSS,

STATA)

10. Present position:

Ministry of Health of Catalonia (Directorate-General for Planning and

Assessment). Project General Manager. Primary Healthcare and Community
Health Innovation Plan.

11. Years within the firm: N.A.

12. Key qualifications: (Relevant to the project): see above

13. International experience

Primary Health Care Network in Kathmandu, Nepal. 2003 to present. Director of

a project formerly financed by the Spanish Society of Family Medicine and
sponsored by the NGO “Amics del Nepal” which consists in the management of
a Primary Care Health Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Coordinator of the peer group developing the Position Paper: “Chronic Heart
Failure, the role of Primary Care” for the European Forum for Primary Care. July
2007 – March 2008.

Improving Health Status of the Kaliningrad Region

(Europeaid/121263/C/SER/RU). 2007 to 2009. Primary Care expert.

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Short Term Consultant for the Panamerican Health Organization (PAHO),

project JA/CNT/0800023.001: “Strategic and Action Plans for the strengthening
of Primary Health Care in Jamaica”. November 2008 – March 2009.

14. Professional experience

Ministry of Health of Catalonia (Directorate-General for Planning and

Assessment): Project General Manager. Primary Healthcare and Community
Health Innovation Plan.

Consorci d’Atenció Primària de Salut de l’Eixample (Barcelona): January 2008 –

March 2010: Public Health Officer

Consorci d’Atenció Primària de Salut de l’Eixample (Barcelona): 2002 – 2007:

Family Doctor

Institut Català de la Salut (ICS), Barcelona: 1998 – 2001: Family Doctor

Clinica de Vic (Vic): 1996 – 2000: Emergency Unit doctor

15. Other information:

Selected publications:

Vilaseca, Josep; Dedeu, Toni; de Graaf, Pim; Hobbs, Richard; Muth,

Christiane; Mårtensson, Jan; López-Alcázar, Miguel; Scherer, Martin
Chronic heart failure: the role of primary care - position paper of the
European Forum for Primary Care. Quality in Primary Care 2008; 16(5):
351 – 362

• Benavent J, Juan C, Clos J, Sequeira E, Gimferrer N, Vilaseca J. Using

pay-for-performance to introduce changes in primary healthcare centres
in Spain: first year results. Quality in Primary Care 2009; 17(2): 123 – 31

• Sicras-Mainar A, Navarro-Artieda R, Blanca-Tamayo M, Velasco-Velasco

S, Escribano-Herranz E, Llopart-Lopez JR, Violan-Fors C, Vilaseca-
Llobet JM. The relationship between effectiveness and costs measured

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by a risk-adjusted case-mix system: multicentre study of Catalonian

population data bases. BMC Public Health 2009, 9:202

 Vilaseca J, Costas L, Martí – recober M, Trilla A. The use of blood tests

in primary health care: too much or too few? [El uso de los análisis de
sangre en atención primaria de salud: ¿exceso o defecto? Article in
Spanish] Aten Prim 2009 (in press, information available at
http://www.doyma.es/revistas/ctl_servlet?_f=7050&revistaid=27)

Contact:

Mobile ph. +34 686 36 36 23

Email (Home): 31386jvl@comb.cat

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