Francesc Xavier Cos Claramunt

Francesc Xavier Cos is a general practitioner graduated in 1997 and currently working part time as a GP in Sant Martí Primary Health Centres (Catalonian National Health Service) and mainly as member of the innovation and research support team at Institut Català de la Salut headquarters ,Spain. Dr. Cos’ main areas of interest are innovation and Health Institution management, Research, Education with a special emphasis on the Diabetes field. From 2005 to 2017 he was director of 2 primary Health Care centres in the city of Barcelona with 100 professionals under his responsibility. During that 12 years, Xavier Cos organized a structured executive team that incorporated a new way of organizing their tasks. That teams define roles, tasks, objectives and also incorporate in all the organization a new way to assume challenges and projects. That centres were accepted to be part of the Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat and Pompeu Fabra pre graduate medicine teaching units. Another key goal was to become one of the new Barcelona centres to host Family Medicine residents that was approved past year. In 2018, he was elected to be the Barcelona Primary Care representative at the INNOBICS program. INNOBICS is the Institut Català de la Salut program launched in 2016 to incorporate innovation into the biggest Catalonian publi health provider. Since March 2020 he is a member of the innovation team at Institut Català de la Salut (http://ics.gencat.cat/ca/inici). As a part of his tasks is working in the innovation plan and actions at the Institute, support to the 7 research institutes, coaching and building on the strategical plan development of different units of the institute and being the central support office for EIT Health, Horizon Europe alliances and calls He is member of the Primary Care University Research Institute Jordi Gol and currently its European representative in Diabetes and Endocrine disorders. At this research institution he is an active member in 2 working groups: Diabetes Prevention and Epidemiological Database analysis. He was also the Spanish national representative of the European General Practice Research Network, WONCA Europe research Group (www.egprn.org) on behalf of the Spanish Primary Care society (www.semfyc.es) from 2009 to 2015. He started his activities on Diabetes at GEDAPS “Primary Care Diabetes Study Group” (www.redgdps.org) in1997, working on Diabetes treatment. In Spain he has been working in many institutional projects for the Catalonian Health Department, (Type 2 Diabetes treatment Guidelines, SBMG recommendations and the Diabetes Expert Patient Programme). He is regularly invited to participate in national and international meetings to lecture as an expert on Diabetes in Primary Care or to develop and conduct educational activities. He also participates in many advisory boards and expert groups. He is currently working in various research projects in Diabetes prevention (DP Transfers), CATRisc, , DEPLAN, Diabetic foot, COVID and Diabetes. His unit has been involved in many randomized clinical trials (Dapagliflozin, Lixisenatide, Early treatment with MET+Vilda) and actually wih the COPERNICAN and ANODE studies. Since 2017 he is also strongly involved in the innovation and Health field. He was the coordinator of Innovation in Primary Care of the city of Barcelona and from 2020 till now is part of the Innovation and research support office at the Catalonian Health Institute. Lately he has attended the IESE educational course, Program for Senior Management of a Health Institutions 2022. He is also involved in the academic field as an Associate Professor at the medicine department of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona since 2009 and he is currently an associate editor of the Primary Care Diabetes journal. Since March 2020 he is a member of the innovation team at Institut Català de la Salut (http://ics.gencat.cat/ca/inici). As a part of his tasks is working in the innovation plan and actions at the Institute, support to the 7 research institutes, coaching and building on the strategical plan development of different units of the institute and being the central support office for EIT Health, Horizon Europe alliances and calls In 2009 he was elected as vice chairman of the Primary Care Diabetes Europe (www.pcdeurope.org) and since February 2017 he is Chairman of PCDE recently reelected for additional 4 years.