Head of the Pathological Anatomy Service of the Germans Trias Hospital

 

Specialist in Pathological Anatomy since 1990, he is the head of Service of the Germans Trias Hospital and professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Specialized in mammary pathology, prostate and molecular pathology. He was a Fogarty Fellow at the National Cancer Institute of NIH, Bethesda, USA, during 1990 and 1991. He joined the Hospital Clínic Provincial de Barcelona as a staff pathologist in 1991, where he worked until March 2018 with the degree of senior consultant and head of the Immunohistochemistry and Molecular Pathology section. He is the author of more than 150 scientific articles in prestigious indexed international journals, as well as 20 book chapters of both university and scientific texts and was principal investigator of 15 competitive research projects of national agencies. He has supervised 6 doctoral theses. He was coordinator of the National Network of Tumor Banks and the Network of Tumor Banks of Catalonia from 2006 to 2011 and evaluator of research projects at the Spanish Agency for Evaluation and Forecasting since 1999. He was responsible for the translation into Spanish of the 7th version of the book ‘Robbins y Cotran, Patologia Estructural y Functional, 7th Edition’, as well as a reviewer of multiple scientific journals.

 

Some recent relevant publications:

• Pons L, Hernández L, Urbizu A, Osorio P, Rodríguez-Martínez P, Castella E, Muñoz A, Sanz C, Arnaldo L, Felip E, Quiroga V, Tapia G, Margelí M, Fernandez PL. Pre- and Post-Neoadjuvant Clinicopathological Parameters Can Help in the Prognosis and the Prediction of Response in HER2+ and Triple Negative Breast Cancer. Cancers (Basel). 2023;15:3068. doi: 10.3390/cancers15123068. PMID: 37370679; PMCID: PMC10296027
• Pons L, Hernández-León L, Altaleb A,, Ussene E, Iglesias R, Castillo A, Rodriguez P, Castella E, Quiroga V, Felip E, Cirauqui B, Margelí M, Fernández PL. Conventional and digital Ki67 evaluation and their correlation with molecular prognosis and morphological parameters in luminal breast cancer. Scientific Reports  2022 ;12:8176. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11411-5.
• Temprana-Salvador J, López-García P, Castellví Vives J, de Haro L, Ballesta E, Rojas Abusleme M, Arrufat M, Marques F, Casas JR, Gallego C, Pons L, Mate JL, Fernández PL, López-Bonet E, Bosch R, Martínez S, Ramón Y Cajal S, Matias-Guiu X. DigiPatICS: Digital Pathology Transformation of the Catalan Health Institute Network of 8 Hospitals-Planification, Implementation, and Preliminary Results. Diagnostics (Basel). 2022 Mar 30;12(4):852. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040852. PMID: 35453900; PMCID: PMC9025604
• Haspel RL, Genzen JR, Wagner J, Lockwood CM, Fong K; Training Residents in Genomics (TRIG) Working Group. Integration of Genomic Medicine in Pathology Resident Training. Am J Clin Pathol. 2020 ;154:784-791. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqaa094. PMID: 32696061
• Fernandez PL, Esteban, J, Franco A. Paleopathology of soft tissues: what mummies can reveal. Pol J Pathol 2019;70:44-48.DOI HTTPS:DOI.ORG/10.5114/PJP.2019.84462
• Ordi J, Alonso PL, Zulueta J, Esteban J, Velasco M, Mas E, Campo E, Fernández PL. The severe gout of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. New Engl J Med 355:516-20, 2006.