Department of Autoimmune Diseases, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Spain
Biography
He is devoted to vasculitis since 1997 when he started to work at the Vasculitis Research Unit (Hospital ClÃnic of Barcelona), directed by Dr. Maria C. Cid. He got his Ph.D. thesis in the field of giant cell arteritis. After becoming staff member of his hospital in 2002, Dr. Hernández-RodrÃguez completed a two-year fellowship in vasculitis at the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research at the Cleveland Clinic (Cleveland, OH). Under the mentoring of Dr. Gary S. Hoffman, he developed a research project about "Single-organ vasculitis".