Josep FONT

e-mail: font@medicina.ub.es

CURRICULUM VITAE

Affiliation and official address: Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit

Hospital Clínic Villarroel, 170

08036-Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Date and place of birth: 5 March 1953

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Education: - MD: University of Barcelona, 1977

- Specialist in Internal Medicina: Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, 1981

- PhD: University of Barcelona, 1984

Professional Career: -Residency in Internal Medicine: Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, 1978-81

- Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine: Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, 1980-86

- Specialist Physician in Internal Medicine: Department of General Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, 1983-95

- Associate Professor in Internal Medicine: Department of Medicine, University of Barcelona, since 1987

- Specialist Physician in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: Systemic Autoimmune Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, since April 1995

Specialization: Main field: Systemic Autoimmune Diseases

Other fields: Internal Medicine

Current research interest: Systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome

Honors, Awards and Memberships - Award from the University of Barcelona for the Doctoral Thesis, 1986

-Member of the Catalan, Spanish and International Societies of Internal Medicine

- Member of the Catalan and Spanish Societies of Rheumatology

- Member of the Editorial Board of LUPUS.

Publications:

-Number of papers in refereed Journals: 100

- Number of communications to scientific meetings: 200

- Books: 3

Recent selected publications:

1. Font J, Vidal J, Cervera R, López-Soto A, Miret C, Jiménez de Anta MT, Ingelmo M. Lack of relationship between human immunodeficiency virus infection and systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus 1995; 4: 47-49.

2. Vianna JL, Khamashta MA, Ordi-Ros J, Font J, Cervera R, López-Soto A, Tolosa C, Franz J, Selva A, Ingelmo M, Vilardell M, Hughes GRV. Comparison of the primary and secondary antiphospholipid syndrome. A European multicenter study of 131 patients. Am J Med 1994; 96: 3-9.

3. Cervera R, Khamashta MA, Font J, Sebastiani GD, Gil A, Lavilla P, Doménech I, Aydintug AO, Jedryka-Góral A, de Ramón E, Galeazzi M, Haga HJ, Mathieu A, Houssiau F, Ingelmo M, Hughes GRV, and the European Working Party on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Systemic lupus erythematosus: Clinical and immunological patterns of disease expression in a cohort of 1000 patients. Medicine (Baltimore) 1993; 72: 113-124.

4. Font J, Cervera R, Navarro M, Pallarés L, López-Soto A, Vivancos J, Ingelmo M. Systemic lupus erythematosus in men: clinical and immunological characteristics. Ann Rheum Dis 1992; 51: 1050-1052.

5. Khamashta MA, Cervera R, Asherson RA, Font J, Gil A, Coltart J, Vázquez JJ, Paré C, Ingelmo M, Oliver J, Hughes GRV. Association of antibodies against phospholipids with heart valve disease in systemic lupus erythematosus. Lancet 1990; 335: 1541-1544.