Isabel Ruiz Camps is Senior Consultant of the Infectious Diseases Department of the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. She received her Medical degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She specialized in Internal Medicine and began to work on Infectious Diseases in 1985. She is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Isabel’s clinical and research activity from 1987 to the year 2000 focused on AIDS. She was a co-founder, in the 90s, of the “Lucia Pediatric AIDS Foundation” and an active member of it until its dissolution in 2021.
Since 2000 she is responsible of infections on Hematology and Oncology Ward at the Vall d’Hebron Universitary Hospital. Moreover, more recently, she has assumed the control of infections in patients affected by Multiple Sclerosis at CEMCAT (Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia).Her research projects and scientific activities are principally focused on the immunocompromised host and specifically on hemato-oncological patients. Her work covers a large range of topics, including among others severe fungal infections, viral infections (including COVID 19), and infections in patients receiving biological therapies.
Isabel is member of different national and international associations and investigation networks. She has participated as speaker in many national and international meetings.