Ferran Barbé Illa

Ferran Barbé received his degree in medicine in 1985 and his PhD in 1999 from the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain). He followed a training program in respiratory medicine at the Hospital de Bellvitge (Barcelona, Spain). In 1992, he received the Diplome D’Universite in Sleep Physiology from the University René Descartes (Paris, France). He was the Director of the Sleep Unit at the Son Dureta University Hospital (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) for 14 years. In 2005, he moved to Lleida (Spain) as Head of the Respiratory Department at the Arnau de Vilanova University Hospital and Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the University of Lleida, He achieved his European certification in sleep medicine in 2013. Since May 2014 he was the Scientific Director of the Biomedical Research Networking Center Consortium for Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES, Madrid, Spain).
Ferran Barbé’s work focuses on sleep apnoea and cardiovascular diseases. His research aims to achieve a better understanding of the pathogenesis of the cardiovascular consequences for sleep apnoea patients, and to evaluate new diagnostic and therapeutic options in such patients.
Ferran Barbé has had 200 papers published in peer-reviewed journals; these papers have received over 6800 citations. His H-index is 43 and member of The Editorial Advisory board for Lancet Respiratory Medicine.