Patricia Martínez Sánchez

Dr. Patricia Martínez Sánchez is a contracted lecturer in Medicine at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Almería and has clinical links with the Andalusian Health Service . She graduated in Medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid (2000) and specialised in Neurology at the Hospital Universitario La Paz in Madrid (2005), where she worked as Stroke Neurologist until December 2016. Later, she transferred to the Neurology Department of Torrecárdenas University Hospital, where she combines her job as a professor with that of neurologist in the Stroke Unit and the Neurosonology Laboratory. Since then she has been the coordinator of R&D&I for the Department of Neurology. Dr. Martínez completed her doctoral thesis at the Autonomous University of Madrid, receiving the doctoral award from the López Sánchez Foundation (National Academy of Medicine of Spain, 2011). In parallel, she has worked as a clinical collaborator and honorary lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid (2009-2014) and as an associate lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Almeria (2018 to date). Over the years, she has combined her teaching and clinical work with research on cerebrovascular diseases, with a special interest in translational research and the use of information and communication technologies. She has led 10 research projects with competitive funding, both public (6) and private (4). In addition, she is the principal investigator of group 10 in the Cerebrovascular Disease Network (RICORS-ICTUS) funded by the Carlos III Health Institute (2022-2024). Dr. Martinez has participated in 25 clinical trials, both academic and industry-sponsored. She has also published 121 articles in indexed scientific journals (h-index = 30), in 91 of which she is the author (55% as first, second, last or corresponding author) and in 13 is collaborating autor. Dr. Martínez holds two intellectual property registrations, related to a predictive method for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in stroke patients (2021). She has participated as a co-investigator in research networks of the Carlos III Health Institute on a continuous basis (INVICTUS, 2013-2016, and INVICTUS +, 2017-2021), and she participates in the Andalusian Network of Clinical and Translational Research in Neurological Diseases (Neuro-RECA, 2019-). Recently (2023), she joined the scientific committee of the NeuroRECA-ROCHE Alliance for Personalized and Precision Neurology. She is also a researcher for the Stroke Project of the Spanish Society of Neurology, which is part of the "European Stroke Organization Trials Alliance" research network. She evaluates research projects for the State Research Agency and reviews high-impact international journals (Stroke, Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, Frontiers in Neurology, etc.). Moreover, Dr. Martínez has directed 4 doctoral theses, and currently directs four more. She is a member of several committees, national (Spanish Society of Neurology) and international (European Stroke Organization and European Academy of Neurology). Finally, he meets the requirements to be an R4-level researcher.