Organization

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.

Click on the following link to view the Faculty Board members: Faculty Board members

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

Chair:

Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz

Secretary: Andrés Ozaíta

Vocal:

Helena Bosch (professor)
Maria Violat Gallego (student)
Sonia Iturrate (PTGAS)

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.

Click on the following link to view the Department Board members: Departament Board members 

The Electoral Board of the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences is composed as follows:

Chair:
Jordi Garcia Ojalvo

Secretary:
Robert Castelo Valdueza

Vocal:
Meritxell Girvent Montllor (PDI)
Arcadi Navarro Cuartiellas (PDI)
Álvaro Martín López, vocal (estudiant)
Susana Fernández Cantí (PTGAS)

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.

Members

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

Members

Ex officio members:

Elected members:

Six lecturers affiliated with the Department:

• Fernando Burdío Pinilla

• David Comas Martínez

• Juana Díez Antón

• Elena Hidalgo Hernando

• Juan Pablo Horcajada Gallego

• Maria Cristina Lopez Rodriguez
   

Guest member:

• Francesc d'Assís Calafell Majó 

Members

• Dean: Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz
• UCA's direction member: Berta Alsina
• Vicedean for Quality: Silvia Hernández
• Vicedean and responsible for Biomedical Sciences and Human Biology: Francesc d'Assís Calafell Majó
• Vicedean of academic planning and students, for the Degree in Medicine: Fernando Burdío 
• Vicedean of Teaching and Institutional Relations, for the Degree in Medicine: Juan Pablo Horcajada 
• Director of Studies : Hafid Laayouni
• Responsible for Biomedical Engineering Degree: Javier Macía
• USQUID Director: Elisabeth Moyano
• Mobility: Andrés Ozaita Mintegui
• Management unit's head: Susanna Fernández

Guests

• Director of Nursery School: Esther Insa
• Teaching Management Coordinator: Sonia Iturrate

Members

• UCA's assistant director: Olga Valverde
• Dean: Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz
• Master degrees coordinators:
  • Cristina López (Master in Biomedical Research)
  • Consol Serra (Master in Public Health)
  • Juana Díez (Màster in Pharmaceutica Industry and Biotechnology)
  • Ana Janic (Master in Multidisciplinary Research)
  • Baldo Oliva (Master in Bioinformatics for Health Sciences)
• PhD in Biomedicine Coordinator: Ruben Vicente
• Vicedean for Quality: Sílvia Hernández
• 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: Baldomero Oliva Miguel, Cristina López Rodríguez, Ana Janic, Juana Díez Antón, master’s programme coordinators; Joan Ramon Masclans Enviz, Dean, and Robert Castelo Valdueza, member of the management team.

Secretary: Juana Díez Antón, 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