Dr. Didac Mauricio received his MD degree from the University of Barcelona (June, 1985) and his PhD degree(Cum Laude) from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (February, 1993).
He is specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition (Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau, Barcelona; Spanish Board certified) since January 1990.
He is currently Head of the Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition at Hospital Universitari Arrnau de Vilanova de Lleida since December 2006
He is also Associate Professor with the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Lleida, where he teaches pregraduate students in Medicine and Nutrition & Dietetics. He also collaborates in postgraduate courses at the University of Lleida and other Spanish universities.
He spent one year as a post-doc Research Fellow (april 1994-april 1995) at the Steno Diabetes Center & Hagedorn Research Institute in Denmark, investigating on the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes with Prof. J. Nerup’s group.
Dídac Mauricio has previously worked in other hospital organizations: staff endocrinologist at Hospital Mútua de Terrassa (1991) and at Hospital de Sabadell (1992 – 1999). He has also held different positions in clinical services in the Catalonia health system: Clinical Director at Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Hospital de Sabadell, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí (2000 – 2003); Head of the Endocrinology Unit at Department of Endocrinology & Nutrition, Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona (2003 – 2006).
Didac Mauricio has a long standing experience in clinical research studies and clinical trials at local and international level. He is a Principal Investigator with the Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida. He has published many scientific papers, communications at national and international scientific meetings, and has delivered numerous lectures at local and international scientific meetings and congresses. He has served as a member of the board of different scientific associations: Societat Catalana d’Endocrinologia i Nutrició, Sociedad Española de Diabetes, European Association for the Study of Diabetes, Sociedad Española de Diabetes and Associació Catalana de Diabetis. He served as member of different scientific and organizing committees for these scientific societies, and also for Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición. He is now an associate editor of the scientific journal Endocrinología y Nutrición (official journal of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition), and member of the editorial committee of the Cochrane Metabolic & Endocrine Disorders group of the journal Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.