Antoni Noguera Julian

After finishing a Pediatrics Residency in 2003, I combined my Pediatrics ICU scholarship with an unofficial subspecialisation in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital, where I have spent my entire professional career as a doctor. I then joined the Infectious Diseases Unit (a full department since 2023), where I continued learning and growing as a professional. I am currently the Interim Head of the Infectious Diseases Department and I coordinate 11 staff members in the hospital at a time of growing complexity, and huge challenges and opportunities every day. My greatest ambition is to continue working every day with children, their families and my team to overcome the healthcare challenges we face, to grow as a team in both research and training, and to foster an excellent working environment.

Training

• Accreditations in research (2011) and advanced research (2016) from the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency.
• Master’s in AIDS, Universitat de Barcelona, 2008.
• Professional Accreditation in Pediatric Intensive Care from SECIP, 2005
• Doctorate in Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona, 2005.

International experience

• Paediatric Allogeneic Transplant Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital. London (UK), 2015.
• Paediatric Haematology Department, St. Mary's Hospital. London (UK), 2015. 

Scientific activity

• Principal Investigator of a Line of research into paediatric tuberculosis within the Infectious Diseases and Microbiome Group (group CB15/00067 in CIBER-ESP) of the SJD Research Foundation since 2012.
• Member of the Steering Committee of the National and European Pediatric Tuberculosis Research Networks (pTBred and pTBnetm respectively).
• Co-author of more than 200 scientific articles in indexed journals (H-index of 34), more than 30 book chapters and supervisor of nine doctoral thesis projects.

Teaching

• Associate Professor (2006-2018) and adjunct (since 2018) in Paediatrics at the Universitat de Barcelona.
• Coordinator of the optional course ‘Basic principles of puericulture’ in the School of Medicine, since 2020.
• Director of the Master’s in Continuing Education in Infectious Diseases in Children and Adolescents at the Universitat de Barcelona, since 2023.
• Director of the Master’s programme in Pediatric Health at the Universitat de Barcelona (2009-2024).

External links

• Tuberculosis: The pediatrician who beat bureaucracy to bring a medication over from India (in Sapanish).