A woman presides for the first time the College of Physicians of Barcelona
Elvira Bisbe will replace Jaume Padrós, who has been at the head of the organization for eleven years
BarcelonaThe doctor Elvira Bisbe (Barcelona, 1961) will be the next president of the Barcelona College of Physicians (CoMB) and the first woman to hold the position. The until now vice president of the entity will lead it in the following four years after having presented the only candidacy to the elections to the governing board and delegates of the Assembly of Delegates within the deadline, which ended this Saturday at 2 p.m.
Thus, Bishop will take over from Jaume Padrós, who has chaired the CoMB for the past eleven years. Now, by statute, she could no longer stand for the position, and the candidacy of Bishop was a way of continuity, precisely because she was its vice president.
Profile and proposals
Elvira Bisbe graduated in medicine from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 1987, completed a speciality in anaesthesiology and resuscitation via MIR at the Hospital de la Esperanza and holds a doctorate in medicine from the UAB. In her professional field, she is a senior consultant at the Hospital del Mar and belongs to the perioperative medicine research group at the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute. She is also an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Vic in urgent and emergencies andleadership and professionalism. She began her career at CoMB in 2010 as a member of the governing board then chaired by Miquel Vilardell. Since 2014, she has been the first vice-president of the three boards chaired by Jaume Padrós.
Bishop says that his candidacy "is based on professionalism, understood not only as the practice of medicine with competence and responsibility towards patients, but also as the need to do so in fair and dignified conditions and adapting to the new challenges of the sector." The program of his mandate is based on five axes of action: defending the values of the profession and of professionals, attending to specific groups such as young and senior professionals; the social and individual protection of doctors; participation and proximity with members; and the assumption of new challenges. In this last area, he has referred especially to the need to transform the health system, the shortage of professionals, the incorporation of new technologies, conciliation and planetary health.
Team and support
The Obispo team will also include around twenty doctors (twelve women and eight men) from different healthcare areas, as well as an Assembly of Delegates made up of 300 elected delegates. For the next four years, the college will have Mireia Puig and Jaume Sellarès as presidents. The secretary will be Sònia Miravet and the treasurer Jordi Aligué, while Berta Areny will be the vice-secretary of the CoMB.
The new president has stressed that her candidacy has received more than 2,300 signatures from members, which she has valued as "a record number that confirms the support" for her project. She has also said that her team assumes the mandate with the commitment to consolidate the CoMB "as a space for professional leadership, for defending the rights and dignity of doctors and for promoting innovation and training adapted to new clinical and technological challenges."