Elena Muiño

Dr. Elena Muiño Acuña holds a medical degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2009) and is a specialist in Neurology from Hospital del Mar (Barcelona). During her residency, she completed a fellowship at the renowned Lariboisière Hospital in Paris, a leading French reference center for rare cerebrovascular diseases, working with the team that … Read more

Franco Emanuel Appiani

Franco Emanuel Appiani - Unitat de Memòria Sant Pau - Barcelona

Franco Emanuel Appiani, MD, is a neurologist specialized in cerebrovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular focus on cerebral small vessel disease and its interface with neurodegeneration. He trained in Neurology at Hospital Universitario Fundación Favaloro (Buenos Aires) under the mentorship of Dr. Oscar Gershanik, where he developed an early research interest in the neuroimaging … Read more

Julia Peris

Julia Peris - Unitat de Memòria Sant Pau - Barcelona

Dr. Julia Peris pursued her degree in Medicine at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (faculty of the Hospital del Mar) between 2014 and 2020. She later specialized in Neurology at Hospital del Mar, Barcelona (2021–2025). During her residency training, she completed an observership at the Memory and Aging Center (San Francisco, USA) … Read more

Iman Bakkali

Iman Bakkali - Unitat de Memòria Sant Pau - Barcleona

Iman Bakkali holds a Higher National Diploma in Administration and Finance. She completed an internship at a business consultancy, beginning her career in the administrative field, and later oriented her professional path towards the healthcare sector. She has experience at the Puigvert Foundation and currently participates in the coordination of Nuclear Medicine PET scans in … Read more

Elena Grimal

Elena Grimal - Unidad de Memoria Sant Pau - Barcelona

Elena Grimal has been a registered nurse since 2011 and graduated from the School of Nursing at Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. In 2018 she obtained a Master’s Degree in Surgical Nursing from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and, in 2024, a Postgraduate Diploma in Out-of-Hospital Emergency Nursing. Throughout her professional career … Read more

Albert Mercadé

Albert Mercadé - Sant Pau Memory Unit

Albert Mercadé holds a degree in Biological Systems Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a Master’s in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology from the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2026, he joined the Memory Unit as a research technician under the supervision of Dr. Juan Fortea, with plans to subsequently begin his PhD.