Tomás
Belzunegui Otano

Tomás Belzunegui Otano has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the UPNA since 2002 and Vice-Dean of the Degree in Medicine since January 2020 and responsible for its implementation. Accredited by ANECA for the positions of Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer at the University. He holds a degree in Medicine from the University of Navarra and a PhD from the same University. The work on his Doctoral Thesis was carried out with the help of the ORTIZ DE LANDAZURI Scholarship for Basic Research, awarded by the Department of Health of the Government of Navarra. As an Assistant Emergency Physician of the Navarre Health Service, he has developed his professional career, after completing the specialty via MIR in Family and Community Medicine, in different public health services in Navarre (Emergency Service of the Estella Hospital, Head of the Extra-hospital Emergency Service, Emergency Service of the Navarre Hospital and Deputy Director of Emergencies and Hospitalization of the Navarre Hospital Complex). In the field of research, he is President of the Research Commission of the Navarre Health Service, President of the Commission of Continuing Education and Research of the Navarre Hospital Complex and member of the board of trustees of the “Miguel Servet Foundation”. He has the EMERGENCY MEDICINE CERTIFICATE (CME) from the Spanish Society of Emergency and Catastrophe Medicine. 1997 and has a DIPLOMA IN STATISTICS IN HEALTH SCIENCES from the University of Bellaterra (Barcelona). His main research interests are the study of care for polytraumatized patients, quality control of the patient and mathematical modelling of variables related to their survival. The result of this research activity is the publication of more than 60 papers in national and international journals with impact within the area of emergency medicine, the presentation of numerous communications at national and international conferences and the direction of a total of 7 doctoral theses. Leader of the Polytraumatized Patient Research Group, registered as a Research Group in Navarrabiomed and included in IdiSNA (Navarra Health Research Institute) and collaborator of the q-UPHS group (quantitative methods for Uplifting the Performance of Health Services). In this context, he has participated as a PI in 16 publicly funded research projects and in R&D projects for different funding agencies at national and international level (Government of Navarra, FIS, MINECO, DG-SANCO, INTERREG- POCTEFA and SUDOE). His most recent research focuses on the application of the quantitative techniques mentioned above to the improvement of health services, mainly in the field of emergency and specifically in the treatment of polytraumatized patients. Since the 2002-2003 academic year, he has taught subjects related to Medical Pathology and Evidence-Based Medicine at the UPNA in the degrees of Medicine and Nursing and in the Masters of Biomedical Engineering, Public Health and Nursing Care Management. Among the management carried out at the University, it is worth highlighting: Vice Dean of the Degree in Medicine at the Public University of Navarra since 2020 and member of the Working Group for the implementation of the Degree in Medicine at the UPNA.