Hector Jose Bueno Zamora MD, PhD, FESC, FAHA

Hector Jose Bueno Zamora obtained his MD at University Navarra, Spain in 1988, completed his training in Cardiology at Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, in Madrid, and his Ph.D. with Magda Cum Laude and extraordinary award for the best thesis of the year 1996 by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He also obtained university degrees in Design and Statistics in Health Sciences (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and in Integrated Health Care Systems Direction (ESADE Business School, Madrid). In 2008 he served as a Visiting Professor at Yale Medical School working on research projects related to the quality of care and of performance measures analysis for cardiac diseases (MI, HF) for the Centers for Medicare Services.

Dr. Bueno leads the Multidisciplinary Translational Cardiovascular Research (MTCR) Group at CNIC, and the Cardiovascular Research Area at the i+12 Research Institute in Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, where he leads the PROGRAMA DE INVESTIGACIÓN CARDIOVASCULAR TRASLACIONAL (PICAT). His clinical work is based in the CCU of the Cardiology Department. Dr. Bueno is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Universidad Complutense de Madrid and has active participation in the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) where he serves as Board Councillor, ESC representative to the European Medicines Agency (EMA), member of the Committee of Practice Guidelines and the Ethics Committee, and immediate Past-President of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA).

Hector Bueno currently leads the Multidisciplinary Translational Cardiovascular Research Group at the Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, and the Cardiovascular Research Area at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre Research Institute (imas12), where he also works in the Cardiology Department - Coronary Care Unit, also in Madrid.