The Faculty Board is the Faculty’s corporate governing body.

Functions:

a) To appoint the dean of the Faculty and to propose his or her removal from office.

b) To approve the Faculty’s objectives within the University’s strategic framework.
c) To approve the Faculty’s annual activity report. 
d) To report on proposals to create, modify, merge and eliminate departments that teach subjects at the Faculty.
e) To propose the criteria and tests for access or admission to the Faculty and for calculating its teaching staff capacity. 
f) To report on teaching staff needs in accordance with their plans and the teaching offered and to decide, jointly with each department, which teaching staff will teach in the subjects or areas for which it is competent.
g) To propose the approval or modification of the curricula for the degrees the Faculty awards, in accordance with the requirements set out under the University’s by-laws or their implementing regulations.
h) To approve the Faculty’s budget and agree on the commitments included in the instruments proposed by the University’s competent bodies for the internal allocation of resources.
i) To approve its own rules of organization and procedure, which shall be subject to ratification by the Board of Governors.
j) To discharge all functions related to the Faculty explicitly assigned to it under the University’s by-laws.
k) The Board shall be empowered to create specific committees, whose objectives and composition it shall decide. Approval of the creation of a committee shall require the favourable votes of an absolute majority of Board members. Each committee shall appoint a chair and a secretary.

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The Department Board is the Department’s corporate governing body.

Functions:

a) To appoint the director of the Department and propose his or her removal from office.

b) To approve the Department’s objectives within the strategic framework of the University.

c) To organize and assign the tasks inherent to the Department and to ensure fulfilment of teaching and research commitments.

d) To define the teaching and research, development, and scientific innovation and dissemination plans and to coordinate the activities of the Department’s teaching and research staff.

e) To approve the syllabi for the subjects taught by the Department.

f) To propose official postgraduate programmes.

g) To make proposals to the centres related to the curricula.

h) To discharge those functions related to teaching staff assigned to it under the present regulations.

i) To report on the assignment of Department teaching staff to university research institutes.

j) To report on the recognition by the University of research groups whose members include lecturers affiliated with the Department.

k) To draw up and approve the Department’s annual teaching and research activity report.

l) To approve its own rules of organization and procedure, which shall be subject to ratification by the Board of Governors.

m) To approve the Department’s budget and agree on the commitments included in the instruments proposed by the University’s competent bodies for the internal allocation of resources.

n) To discharge all functions related to the Department that the University’s by-laws or the present regulations explicitly assign to it.

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The Electoral Board of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences is composed as follows:

Chair:

Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz

Secretary:
Francesc Calafell

Vocal:

Helena Bosch (professor)
Maria Violat Gallego (student)
Susana Vilella (PAS)

The Scientific Committee is the Department Board’s delegate committee for the functions of managing and coordinating the Department’s research (managing the allocation and assignment of research funds). To this end, it shall discuss the needs of the different programmes.

The Teaching Staff Committee is the Department Board’s delegate committee for matters related to the teaching staff.

Members

Ex officio members:

Elected members:

Five lecturers affiliated with the Department:

• Miguel López-Botet
• Fernando Giráldez
• Jaume Bertranpetit
• Juana Díez
• Elena Hidalgo

Guest members:

• Jordi Camí
• Miguel Valverde
• Francesc Posas

Members

Dean: Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz

UCA's direction member: Berta Alsina

Vicedean: José Manuel Fernández

Vicedean and responsible for Human Biology Degree: Paco Muñoz

Responsible for Medicine Degree: Maria Pilar Gracia

Director of Studies : Silvia Hernández

Responsible for Biomedical Engineering Degree: Javier Macía

USQUID Director: Elisabeth Moyano

Mobility: Francesc Calafell

Management unit's head: Susanna Fernández

Guests

Director of Nursery School: Esther Insa

Responsible for Bioinformatics Degree: Hafid Laayouni

Teaching Management Coordinator: Sonia Iturrate

Members

• Dean: Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz
• UCA's direction member: Robert Castelo
• Master degrees coordinators:
  • Cristina López (Master in Biomedical Research)
  • Fernando Benavides (Master in Public Health)
  • Marc Güell (Màster in Pharmaceutica Industry and Biotechnology)
  • Marià Sentí (Master in Clinical Analysis Laboratory)
  • Rubén Vicente (Master in Multidisciplinary Research)
  • Nuria Centeno (Master in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences)
  • Maria Dolors Cañada, senior lecturer in the Department of Translation and Language Sciences at UPF  (Master de Formació de Professorat de Secundària)
• PhD in Biomedicine Coordinator: Olga Valverde
• Vicedean for Quality: José Manuel Fernández
• Management Unit's Head: Susanna Fernández

  Guests
 

• Teaching Management Coordinator: Sonia Iturrate

The Academic Committee for the PhD Programme in Biomedicine is responsible for the definition, updating, quality and coordination of the PhD programme and for the progress of each doctoral student’s research and training, as well as for all other functions provided for in this article.

Functions:

a) To define, update and assure the quality and coordination of the PhD programme.

b) To organize, design and coordinate each PhD programme.

c) To establish the supervision system for doctoral students and the tutorial programme.

d) To provide the necessary support for the preparation of doctoral students’ personalized activities document.

e) To establish additional requirements and criteria for the admission of students to a given PhD programme.

f) To appoint or change the tutor for each doctoral student.

g) To appoint or change the thesis supervisor.

h) To authorize or revoke the authorization for joint thesis supervisors.

i)  To authorize or revoke the authorization for joint thesis tutors.

j)  To authorize stays abroad  by doctoral students.

k) To authorize the submission of each doctoral student’s thesis.

l)  To authorize the completion of doctoral studies on a part-time basis. 

m) To authorize the extension of the deadline for submission of a thesis.

n) To approve or deny a temporary leave for a doctoral student.

o) To determine exceptional cases in which certain aspects of a thesis should not be made public.

p) To annually assess each doctoral student’s personal activities document and the reports of his or her tutor and thesis supervisor.

q) To annually assess each doctoral student’s research plan and the reports of his or her tutor and thesis supervisor.

r) To discharge any other functions attributed to it by law or under UPF or school regulations.

Members

Chair: Rubén Vicente García, PhD programme coordinator

Members: Nuria Boada Centeno, Cristina López Rodríguez, Marià Sentí Clapés and Fernando García Benavides, master’s programme coordinators; and José Aramburu Beltrán, Marc Güell Cargol and Joaquim Gea Guiral, Department lecturers

Secretary: Marc Güel Cargol, master’s programme coordinator

The creation of the centre’s Quality Committee was approved on 27 May 2017 by the Department Board and on 29 May 2017 by the Faculty Board.

Objectives - Functions

·       To analyse and monitor the quality indicators for the degree programmes

·       To review and approve the monitoring reports

·       To review and approve the self-assessment reports for accreditation

·       To develop, review and approve quality policy and objectives

·       To review the status of proposals from the improvement plans and make new proposals

·       To review and approve the centre’s Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIQ).

Composition