The Regional Minister of Health and three other senior officials from IDIVAL spent six days in the United States to carry out a series of working sessions, with special focus on the Cantabria Cohort project.
The delegation was made up of the Regional Minister of Health, César Pascual; the Scientific Director of the Marqués de Valdecilla Research Institute (IDIVAL), Head of the Immunology Department at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital, and Principal Investigator of Cantabria Cohort, Marcos López Hoyos; the Head of the Cardiology Department at Valdecilla, José María Fernández de la Torre; and the Managing Director of IDIVAL and coordinator of the visit series, Galo Peralta.
The agenda included meetings at internationally renowned centers such as the MedStar National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare and the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Johnson & Johnson Innovation Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
During these meetings, the delegation presented some of Cantabria’s key strategic projects in the field of health research, with particular emphasis on the Cantabria Cohort—a population research platform integrated into the public healthcare system—which, according to the regional government, sparked notable interest among the U.S. teams.
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