Dr. Graciela Martínez-Pallí, MD PhD (1966), is Senior
Consultant and the former Head of the Anesthesia and Critical Care Department
of the Hospital Clinic Barcelona, and Senior Researcher at IDIBAPS, Universitat
de Barcelona (Spain). Clinical expertise in Anesthesia for major abdominal
surgery and liver transplantation. She has been involved in basic science and
clinical research since starting her residency training in Anesthesia in 1992. She
has participated in numerous projects funded by Spanish government research
bodies that are related to the study of the physiologic response to surgical
aggression. She also completed her research training as a Visiting Assistant
Professor at the Medicine School, UCSF, USA (2007/2008). Her main field of
interest in research from 2013 has been prehabilitation. She leads the Prehabilitation
Program in Hospital Clinic Barcelona. This initiative started through several
studies funded by the Spanish government) on the impact of prehabilitation in
high-risk patients undergoing elective major surgeries (PI 13/ 00425, PI17/00852
and PI20/00835, PI24/01547). As a result of evidence generated by a successful
three-year RCT (2013-2016), prehabilitation was implemented in their clinical
practice. From 2017, her current work has focused on the application of the program
towards a mainstream prehabilitation service, the creation of a roadmap for
regional deployment of the service, and the monitoring of a long-term
cost-efficacy system.
on behalf of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona Prehabilitation Group