Emma Ventura Orriols

I have a Degree in Pharmacy from the Universitat de Barcelona and am an Internal Resident Pharmacist (FIR), in Clinical Biochemistry at the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, Badalona. I specialize in ISO 9001 and ISO 15189 Quality Management Systems. At present, I am the Extra-analytical Processes Coordinator of the SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital laboratory.

Training

• Diploma “Innovación Tecnológica y Gestión en el Laboratorio Clínico” (Technological Innovation and Clinical Laboratory Management), Roche Diagnostics and the Universidad Europea de Madrid, 2008.
• Master's in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2007.
• Internal Resident Pharmacist (FIR) in clinical analysis laboratories, Clinical Biochemistry specialist, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital, 2006-2010.
• Degree in Pharmacy, Universitat de Barcelona, 2000-2005.

International experience

• Member of the Comité de Programas de Garantía Externa de la Calidad (SEQCML), Board of External Quality Assurance Programmes.
• Member of the EFLM work group “Task Force on Performance Specifications in Laboratory Medicine: EFLM Task & Finish group “Performance specifications for EQAS” (TFG-PSEQA).

Scientific research

• Presentation of investigation project to obtain researcher sufficiency certification, “Utilitat del Propèptid Aminoterminal del col·lagen tipus I (P1NP) com a marcador de remodelació òssia en pacients trasplantats renals”, (Utility of Aminoterminal Propeptide of type I collagen (P1NP) as a marker of bone remodel in renal transplant patients) , Clinical Analysis Service of the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital,  July 2007.
• Five-month external rotation at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Lipids Unit, taking part in an investigation project: “LDL electronegativa y su papel en aterosclerosis” (Electronegative LDL and its role in aterosclerosis).