Lluís Guirado Perich

Dr Lluís Guirado is the Director of the Nephrology Department.

He graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1986), specialised in Nephrology (1990) and obtained his PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010). He holds a master's degree in Healthcare Team Management from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2013). 

With more than 30 years of experience in the profession and extensive training in different specialty areas, he stands out as one of the driving forces in Spain in terms of living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT). In this regard, he has performed more than 2,500 transplantations, 500 of them from living donors, which makes him one of the leading international experts in living donor kidney transplantation.

Throughout his career, he has combined his healthcare work and intense research, dissemination and teaching activities. Thus, he is actively involved in clinical research on living donor and expanded criteria donor kidney transplantation, chronic kidney disease, immunosuppressive therapy and opportunistic infections in kidney transplantation. Furthermore, he has authored/co-authored many publications on these topics on national and international medical media and has participated in the clinical development of an array of immunosuppressive drugs at different development stages (II, III and IV). 

He has also been invited as a speaker at many congresses within the specialty and is the author of more than 200 scientific articles. He is also a member of the editorial board of several national and international journals. 

He has directed and taught postgraduate courses in Nephrology and is a lecturer at the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.