Francisco JesÚs Garcia Martin

Biography

  Academic Qualifications • Bachelor of Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine at Malaga University (1983). Specialist Training • Carlos Haya University Hospital in Malaga (Materno-Infantil Hospital, 1988) Areas of expertise: • General Paediatrics. • Paediatrics sub-specialty: infectology, immune-paediatrics. • Area of expertise: Paediatric Intensive Care. Professional Experience • Head of the Paediatrics at the following hospitals: Xanit International Hospital of Benalmadena, Hospital Parque de San Antonio in Málaga and Clínica Gálvez, in Málaga. • Paediatric patients (UCIP) at the Paediatrics Department (1989-2004), with wide experience in the handling of the critical child patients and neonatal medical-surgery. • Associate Doctor assigned to the Emergency Medical Services at the Intensive Care Unit. • Associate Doctor at the Infectious and Paediatric Immunodeficiency Unit of the Regional Carlos Haya University Hospital in Malaga (Materno-Infantil Hospital), since 1989. • Area Consultant in Paediatrics, ranking number 1 in the public exams taken for the Andalusian Health Services (SAS) Public Employment Offer. • Associate Lecturer in Paediatrics at Malaga University (since 1989)

Research Interest

  Publications • Conejo-Fernández AJ, Martín-García FJ, Martínez de San Vicente C. Primary Sternal Osteomielitis and Septicemia in a Neonate. Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 32(6):704-705, June 2013. • Garcés P, García-Martin F, Detkova D, Espanol T. Diagnosis of autosomal-dominant hyper immunoglobulin E syndrome. J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol. 2012; 22(2):149-52. • Serrano-Martín MM, Moreno-Pérez D, García-Martín FJ, Jurado-Ortiz A. Major histocompatibility complex class II deficiency. An Pediatr (Barc). 2007 Mar; 66(3):305-8. • Cruz-Cañete M, Moreno-Pérez D, Jurado-Ortiz A, García-Martín FJ, López-Siles J, et al. Influenza virus in paediatrics. A reason for hospitalization. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2007 Mar;25(3):177-83. • García-Pérez MA, Paz-Artal E, Corell A, Moreno A, López-Goyanes A, et al. Mutations of CD40 ligand in two patients with hyper-IgM syndrome. Immunobiology. 2003;207(4):285-94. Other Achievements • Co-author of 7 books about vaccines and HIV infections in children. • Author of 39 chapters for books. • Author of 37 articles in national and international magazines. • Author of 228 short conferences at national and international congresses. • Conferences and lectures in 99 scientific meetings at national and international congresses. • Doctor in Paediatrics with a cum lauden distinction. • President of the IV international Congress of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectology (SEIP). Marbella, March 2008. • Scientific Committee Member for the Vacunas (Vaccines) Magazine. Research and Practises edited since January 2000. • Principal and secondary researcher in a dozen clinical trials for antibiotics, antimicrobials, and vaccines. • Accredited as a General Practitioner (GP) in the National Health Service in Spain and in all the Public Health Services of the Member States of the European Community (1996). • Technical advisor for the “Andalusian Health Plan” run by the Junta de Andalusia (Andalusian Regional Government) • Awarded the “Profesor Antonio Martínez Valverde” Prize (1995), granted by the Eastern Andalusian Paediatrics Society for his work on “The Utility of Ultrasound in the Study Protocol of HIV Positive Paediatric Patients”. • Awarded the “Maltese Cross” (1995) by the Carlos Haya Hospital in Malaga for the most distinguished Unit or Section. • Junta de Andalucía Regional Government Expert in the Consensus about Systematic Vaccination and HBV in new-borns in Andalusia (17th-18th November, 1994). • Board Member of the Society of Paediatric Infectology of the Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP). • Expert on the Paediatric AIDS Committee for the Spanish Paediatrics Society (AEP). • Expert on the Vaccinations Committee of the AEP (1994-2001). • Board Member of the Pharmacy Commission for the Carlos Haya Regional University Hospital in Malaga (1993-2000). • Tutor for Resident Paediatricians (1990-2004). During his posting, he personally prepared protocols of the sub-specialty and wrote three chapters of the Resident Doctors Manual for the Health Department at the Junta de Andalusia Regional Government and 25 chapters of the same manual for the National Board of the Specialty (CNE).