Garín Montañez, Marta

Biography

  ACADEMIC TRAINING: Graduate of Medicine from the University of Malaga’s Faculty of Medicine (1983). RESIDENCY SPECIALITY: Carlos de Haya University Hospital of Malaga (Mother and Child Hospital, 1988). EXPERT: General paediatrics. Subspecialty paediatrics: infectology, paediatric immunology   Field of expertise: Paediatric Intensive Care PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Associate Professor of Paediatrics of the University of Malaga (since 1989). Area Specialist in Paediatrics, number 1 in the SAS Public Employment offer competition. Associate Doctor of the Paediatric Immunodeficiency and Infections Unit of the Carlos de Haya University Hospital of Malaga (Mother and Child Hospital), since 1989. Associate Doctor assigned to the Medical Personnel group in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (UCIP) of the Paediatrics Department (1989-2004), having ample experience in handling medical-surgical infantile and neonatal critical patients. Head of Paediatric Services at the following hospitals: Xanit International Hospital in Benalmadena; Vithas Parque de San Antonio, in Malaga and Galvez Clinic in Malaga. PARTICIPATION IN PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST: Conejo-Fernández AJ, Martín-García FJ, Martínez de San Vicente C. Primary Sternal Osteomyelitis and Septicemia in a Neonate Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 32(6):704-705, June 2013. Garcés P, Garcia-Martin F, Detkova D, Espanol T. Diagnosis of autosomal-dominant hyperimmunoglobulin 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 complete books; 7 books on vaccines and HIV infection in children.   Author of 39 book chapters. Author of 37 articles in national and international magazines. Author of 228 presentations at national and international congresses. Conferences and presentations in 99 national and international scientific meetings and congresses. Relevant most recent presentations:  “¿Es posible el control de la Tos ferina?” (“Is it possible to control whooping cough?”) Spanish Association of Paediatrics National Congress, Vaccine Advisory Committee (Oviedo, 19 April 2012).   “Coberturas vacunales en niños sanos y en niños de riesgo”(Vaccination Coverage in Healthy Children and Children at risk). Spanish Association of Paediatrics National Congress, Vaccine Advisory Committee (Seville, 6 June 2013). Doctor of Paediatrics with a cum laude distinction. Accreditation as a General Practitioner in the National Health System, as well as in the Social Security Public Systems of the other Member States of the European Communities (1996). Technical Advisor of the “Andalusian Health Plan” for the Regional Government of Andalusia. Expert for the Regional Government of Andalusia at the Consensus on Systematic Vaccination and HBV in Newborns in Andalusia (17-18 November 1994). Member of the Board of Directors for the Paediatric Infectology Society of the Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP).   Expert on the Paediatric AIDS Committee for the Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP). Expert for the AEP’s Vaccination Committee (1994—2001). Tutor for Paediatric Residents (1990-2004).  In this role he personally created the protocols for the sub-specialty and participated as the author for three chapters in the Resident Manual for the Regional Government of Andalusia’s Ministry of Health and 25 chapters for the identical manual for the National Council of Specialties (CNE). Board Member of the Pharmacy Commission for the Carlos de Haya Hospital of Malaga (1993—2000). “Professor Antonio Martínez Valverde” Award (1995) presented by the Eastern Andalusian Paediatrics Society for the work “Utilidad de la Ecografía en el Protocolo de Estudio de los Pacientes Pediátricos VIH Positivos” (“Use of Ultrasound in the Protocol to Study HIV Positive Paediatric Patients). Carlos de Haya Hospital “Maltese Cross” Award (1995) to the most distinguished Unit or Section. President of the 4th National Congress for the Spanish Society of Paediatric Infectology (SEIP). Marbella, March 2008. Member of the Scientific Committee for Vacunas magazine. Edited Practice and Research since January 2000.   Principal and secondary researcher in a dozen clinical trials on antibiotics, antimicrobials and vaccines.

Research Interest

 Paediatric