Miriam Barrecheguren

Miriam Barrecheguren is a pneumologist working at Vall d ́Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona. She graduated in Medicine at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2008. After her training in Respiratory Medicine, she obtained her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2016 on the diagnosis and management of COPD and AATD in Primary Care. Afterwards, she fulfilled a research fellow at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and obtained a Rio Hortega grant from the Health Institute Carlos III (Madrid, Spain). She was granted the honorary lecture for young researchers of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) in 2018. She is the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Early Career Member (ECM) representative in the European Alpha-1 research collaboration (EARCO) and has been involved in the development of the international registry of AATD (EARCO) Her primary interests include COPD, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and mechanical ventilation. She has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications indexed in PubMed.