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MERELLES TORMO, ANTONIO

MERELLES TORMO, ANTONIO

PDI-Titular d'Universitat
PUIG NAVARRO, LUCAS JOAQUIN

PUIG NAVARRO, LUCAS JOAQUIN

PDI-Associat/Da Universitari/A
Biography
 

Diploma in Social Work, Bachelor's Degree in Humanities and Master's Degree in Ethics and Democracy, Teaching Skills Course from the University of Valencia, Master's Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention, specialising in Psychosociology and Applied Ergonomics from Florida University.

Training in Clinical Supervision, Human Rights and Disability, Dependency Assessment, Family Therapy, Gender Equality Awareness, among others.

Active social worker as a permanent employee of the Regional Ministry of Health, working since 2016 in the Medium Stay Unit for people with mental health problems at the Padre Jofré Hospital. Previously, he worked in the same Regional Ministry in primary health care, chronic and long-term care, as well as in the mental health unit. He also has experience in rehabilitation and social integration centres for people with mental health problems, child protection centres and in the local area with regard to the Dependency Law.

Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Services at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Lecturer in the Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, teaching the following subjects: Social Work in Mental Health, International Welfare, Fundamentals of Social Work, Social Policy, Welfare Administration and Systems, Internships I and II, and TFG tutoring. Lecturer in the Master's Degree in Social and Health Care for Dependency and lecturer in the Inter-university Master's Degree in Social Work in the Health Field.

Member of the Bioethics Committee of the Valencian Community as a spokesperson.

External trainer in applied ethics, mental health, recovery-oriented model and disability, both for public entities (EVES, IVAFIQ, FVMP, Valencia City Council) and professional associations and private entities.

RODENAS RIGLA, FRANCISCO JOSE

RODENAS RIGLA, FRANCISCO JOSE

PDI-Catedratic/a d'UniversitatCoordinador/a de Programa de DoctoratDirector/a Titulacio Master OficialVicedega/Vicedegana / Vicedirector/a Ets
Biography
 

FRANCISCO JOSÉ RÓDENAS RIGLA is a social worker, PhD in Sociology, full professor at the University of Valencia and researcher at the Polibienestar Research Institute, where he coordinates the PhD programme in ‘Design, management and evaluation of public social welfare policies’. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the same university, where he gives undergraduate and postgraduate courses on topics related to research in social welfare systems, social and health care, and new technologies. He is also director of the Official Master's Degree in Social Work in Health Care.

With 33 years of experience in teaching and research (four six-year research periods and one transfer period), he leads a line of research on the efficiency and quality of long-term care systems. He has published the results of his research in journals included in the WoS-Journal Citation Reports, such as Health Policy, Health and Social Care in the Community, International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Cities, Social Indicators Research and European Journal of Ageing. He is co-author of some thirty book chapters and/or books on welfare and social and health care services published by renowned publishers such as Routledge, McGraw Hill, Palgrave Macmillan and Tirant lo Blanch. He has participated in 48 European research projects, has led four competitive R&D&I projects linked to the National Research Plan, and has been part of the research team or principal investigator in more than 50 research contracts with public administrations and companies. He has carried out research fellowships in the United Kingdom (University of Kent and London School of Economics and Political Science) and in the Netherlands (VU University Amsterdam -Vrije Universiteit-).

SIXTO COSTOYA, ANDREA

SIXTO COSTOYA, ANDREA

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/ACoordinador/a de Mobilitat
VAZQUEZ CAÑETE, ANA ISABEL

VAZQUEZ CAÑETE, ANA ISABEL

PDI-Prof. Permanent Laboral PplResponsables de Gestio AcademicaCoordinador/a Titulacio de Grau
ZANON MORENO, VICENTE CALIXTO

ZANON MORENO, VICENTE CALIXTO

PDI-Ajudant Doctor/ADirector/a Titulacio Master Oficial
Biography
 

I am biologist (2000, University of Valencia, Spain) and hold a PhD in Public Health and Legal Medicine (2008, University of Valencia, Spain).

Currently, I am professor at Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Food Sciences, Toxicology and Legal Medicine of the University of Valencia. Previously, I served as Research Director in the Vice-Rectorate for Research and Knowledge Transfer at the International University of Valencia-VIU (Spain). I was also a full professor of Public Health at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the International University of Valencia-VIU.

My research focuses on the prevention of glaucomatous blindness, delving into the genetic and molecular bases of this disease and studying the role of different biological processes (oxidative stress, inflammation, angiogenesis, apoptotis etc) and lifestyle factors (nutrition, tobacco use, alcohol consumption) in relation to glaucoma and other ocular pathologies that cause blindness.

I began this line of research in my early days as a predoctoral student. In the postdoctoral phase I carried out several research stays in internationally recognized groups: Prof. Jeremy Sivak (Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Canada), Prof. Dong Feng Chen (Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA), Prof. Manel Esteller (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, ​​Spain).

I am a member of the Cellular and Molecular Ophthalmobiology Unit (UOCEM, University of Valencia) and a researcher of the "Cooperative Research Network Oriented to Health Results on Inflammatory Diseases" (RICORS-REI, RD24/0007/0004). During the period 2020-2023 I was a member of the Publications Committee of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO, USA) and I have been Academic Secretary of the Society for Research in Retina and Vision (SIREV, Spain) since 2021.

I am a reviewer of scientific articles and a member of the editorial board of several national and international journals, such as Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group), Frontiers in Medicine (section Ophthalmology, Frontiers Media SA) and Journal of Ophthalmology (Wiley). I have been editor-in-chief of 2 international scientific journals and I am founder of the European Journal of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences (ISSN Online: 2575-5005, Science Publishing Group). In addition, I am an evaluator of research projects for the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France).

Regarding my experience in the field of accreditation of official university degrees, I participated in the ANECA verification of the Master's Degree in Epidemiology and Public Health (01/27/2020) and in the ANECA verification of the Doctorate Program in Public Health, Community Health and Addictions (10/4/2023) from the International University of Valencia-VIU.

I have received several awards and recognitions, such as the Spanish Society of Ophthalmology award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in 2008, or the 2020 and 2021 Award for Research Excellence from the Valencian International University-VIU.