Dra. María Pi-Figueras

Dra. María Pi-Figueras

  • Coordinator of the quality improvement project of the Parc de Salut Mar in the 2013 Call for Proposals titled:  Oncogeriatrics: Evaluation of the impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment on elderly patients at the Parc de Salut Mar diagnosed with gastrointestinal tumors.
  • Head of oncogeriatry unit in IOB.

Postgraduate Trainning

  • RESIDENT INTERNAL PHYSICIAN (MIR) IN GERIATRICS 
  • MEDICAL SPECIALIST IN GERIATRICS) at the Institut Municipal d’Assistència Sanitària (IMAS) (Municipal Geriatric Centre, Hospital del Mar, Hospital de l’Esperança) from 21 July 2000 to 20 July 2004.
  • External rotation during the Geriatric Resident Training Program in a hospital abroad: “CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN THE BROOKDALE DEPARTMENT OF GERIATRICS AND ADULT DEVELOPMENT” at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York from April 1, 2004 to May 31, 2004.
  • DIPLOMA OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN MEDICINE (DEA) from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in February 2004.
  • MASTER IN INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT (DSIS 2005-2006) from ESADE Business School, from October 2005 to July 2006. Barcelona, September 2006.

Professional Achivements

2000-2004: Obtained medical specialty in geriatrics at the Institut Municipal d’Assistència Sanitària (IMAS) (Municipal Geriatric Centre, Hospital del Mar, Hospital de l’Esperança) from 21 July 2000 to 20 July 2004.

2004- present: Physician Assistant at the Geriatrics Service of the Parc de Salut Mar.

2013- present: Advisor to Geriatrics residents in the Parc de Salut Mar.

2013- present: Head physician at the Oncogeriatry Unit of the Parc de Salut Mar.

2018– Doctoral thesis titled “Construction and validation of an acute confusional syndrome predictive instrument in an acute geriatrics unit”. Thesis supervisors: Dr. Ramón Miralles Basseda, Dr. Juan Pedro-Botet Montoya.

2021- Head of oncogeriatry unit in IOB.

Grants and other awards

  • Coordinator of the quality improvement project of the Parc de Salut Mar in the 2013 Call for Proposals titled:  Oncogeriatrics: Evaluation of the impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment on elderly patients at the Parc de Salut Mar diagnosed with gastrointestinal tumors. 
  • AEC Grant in the Official Announcement of Grants for Multicenter Research Projects: Co-author of the TOREGA Project Impact of fragility on postoperative results of gastric cancer surgery. Principal Investigator: Dr. Manuel Pera

Member of Scientific Societies and Working Groups

  1. Permanent member of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology from 2003 to the present
  2. Permanent member of the Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques de Catalunya i de Balears from 1999 to the present
  3. Permanent member of the Catalan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology from October 2008 to the present
  4. Permanent member of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology from 2016 to the present
  5. Permanent member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) since 2020
  6. Oncogeriatrics Group of the Catalan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SCGiG)
  7. Oncogeriatrics Group of the Spanish Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SEGG)
  8. Oncogeriatrics Group of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology (SEOM)
  9. Dementia Group of the Catalan Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology (SCGiG)
  10. Member of the Functional Toxicology Unit. Hospital del Mar

 

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