Dr José Valverde Albacete (Spain)

Dr Valverde graduated from the University of Seville in 1991 with a degree in medicine and surgery. He specialized in emergency and casualty medicine (1993) and family and community medicine (2012). He currently works at the Andalusian Regional Health Department as Senior Emergency and Casualty Physician, coordinator, regulator and researcher. He previously worked as Director of the Andalusian Agency for Health Technology Assessment (2000–2004); International and Research Advisor for the Cabinet of the Andalusian Regional Minister for Health (2004–2006); Scientific Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (2006–2009); and Director General of the Spanish National Centre for Accessibility Technologies (2010–2011).

Dr Valverde´s research has focused on eHealth including personal health systems, Web 2.0 applied to health, mHealth, and European health-care systems enabled through information society technologies. Another related research line is on accessibility technologies for active and healthy ageing.

Dr Valverde joined the EACHR in 2018.