Teresa Fernández, new director of the Foundation for Biomedical Research of Gregorio Marañón Hospital

Teresa Fernández Alonso has been appointed as the new director of the Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Gregorio Marañón (FIBHGM). With more than 25 years of experience in the management of healthcare organisations, she takes on the leadership of the organisation responsible for promoting, managing and developing research at the centre.

Fernández Alonso holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Navarra, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Instituto de Empresas and an Executive Master’s Degree in Healthcare Organisation Management from ESADE.

She has also been director of the Hospital Psiquiátrico de la Diputación Provincial de Zaragoza, managing director of the public company Servicios Hospitalarios Generales, dependent on the government of Castilla-La Mancha, director of Management and General Services at Hospital Ernest Lluch and Hospital Nuestra Señora del Prado, deputy director of Management and Servicios Generales del Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo and head of the Procurement Service at the Dirección General de Salud Digital, a position she held until her current appointment.

"It is a privilege to join this team and share its enthusiasm for the generation of knowledge and the development of values such as Excellence, Innovation, Commitment and Ethics," says the new director of FIBHGM, who hopes to continue consolidating the organisation’s leadership "in order to generate innovative and efficient responses to society’s main health challenges".