Joaquín Cabezas

Dr. Joaquin Cabezas is a Gastroenterology and Hepatology physician. He is a staff member in Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department in Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Spain.

He got his Bachelor of Medicine in University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2006. Finished his specialist residence in Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital by 2011. Investigation interests are liver diseases with special focus on viral hepatitis and alcohol-related liver disease. He is part of a research group “Clinical and Translational research in Digestive Diseases“ which is included in Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL).

In 2015, he spent one-year stay in translational formation with Dr. Ramon Bataller in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina, United States). Current research projects include hepatitis B, C and delta epidemiology, models of care and alcohol-related hepatitis.

Collaborator in the JailFree-C project, and The HONEST project focused on hepatitis C management in the correctional setting. These studies provide a model of care including a test-and-treat strategy, a navigator/multidisciplinary team/telemedicine tools in an underserve population in prison in Cantabria-Spain. Since the success of these projects, Prof. Javier Crespo and me are the leaders of the Strategic Plan for hepatitis C elimination in Cantabria.

In the Prison sector I was a member of the INHSU Prison Network, 2019-2024 and now we are leading the development a Global Network for Infectious Diseases in Prison.