Dr Gonzalo García de Casasola Sánchez

• Internal Medicine and comprehensive assessment of complex adult patients with multiple comorbidities.
• Cardiovascular risk assessment and preventive medicine focused on healthy ageing.
• Emergency Medicine and clinical decision-making in acute care settings.
• Clinical ultrasound / Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS): multiorgan, lung, cardiac, abdominal and vascular assessment.
• Leadership, organisation and management of hospital clinical services.
• Undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and specialist medical training.
• Clinical research, with a particular focus on clinical ultrasound, respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease.

Professional Career

• 2021 – present: Head of the Emergency Department at Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón, with responsibility for the leadership and clinical activity of the Emergency Department.
• 2008 – 2021: Head of the Internal Medicine and Emergency Department at Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina de Parla. During this period, he held both clinical and management responsibilities and served as Head of Studies and President of the Teaching Committee.
• 1998 – 2007: Clinical practice and leadership responsibilities in Emergency Medicine at Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón.
• 1994 – 1998: Hospital medical practice at Hospital Moncloa (ASISA), Madrid.
• 1992 – 1995: Clinical practice in Internal Medicine at Hospital Clínico Universitario San Carlos, Madrid.

Academic Training

• Degree in Medicine and Surgery from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1985.
• Specialist in Internal Medicine, 1992.
• PhD in Medicine from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1994.
• Full Professor and Vice-Dean for Teaching Hospitals at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad San Pablo CEU, since 2025.
• Teaching activity at Universidad San Pablo CEU since 2006; currently responsible for Pathophysiology and Clinical Semiology in the third year of the Medicine degree.
• Associate Professor of Medicine at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2010–2021, with responsibility for Clinical Practice teaching for fourth-, fifth- and sixth-year medical students.
• National ANECA accreditation for the position of Full Professor, 2024.

Research and Scientific Activity

• Author of 147 scientific publications and 162 communications at national and international congresses.
• Author of 34 articles published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) over the past five years, as listed in his curriculum vitae.
• Participation in five funded research projects and more than 50 invited speaking or moderating engagements.
• Supervisor of four doctoral theses.
• Three six-year research assessment periods recognised by ANECA/CNEAI, corresponding to 2007–2012, 2013–2018 and 2019–2024.

Clinical Ultrasound and Teaching

• Director of postgraduate university programmes in clinical ultrasound at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de Barcelona and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• Coordinator of the Clinical Ultrasound Working Group of the Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna.
• Organiser of more than 90 basic ultrasound courses and lecturer on more than 50 courses.
• Author/editor of Fisiopatología y Patología General para Ciencias de la Salud, published by Editorial Elsevier.

Additional Information

• More than two decades of experience in leadership positions within clinical departments.
• Particular dedication to the development, implementation and teaching of clinical ultrasound (POCUS) in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine.
• Main research interests: clinical ultrasound, sleep apnoea syndrome and acute pancreatitis.
• English: reading comprehension C1; listening comprehension B2; spoken interaction, spoken production and writing B1.