Fundació Sant Joan de Déu


: Apr 12, 2016


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Fundacío Sant Joan de Déu (FSJD) is a research non-profit institution, linked to (Barcelona Children's Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) and the Mental Health Centre Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (PSSJD), which primary goal is to contribute to the improvement of people's health and welfare mainly in the areas of Maternal and Child Health and Mental Health.

FSJD has 8 consolidated research groups conducting research in: i) Developmental Cancer, ii) Adult-age disorders originating in the foetal period or in the early years of life, iii) Infectious diseases and systemic inflammatory response in paediatrics, iv) Low-prevalence genetically-based neurological disorders in paediatrics, v) Research and innovation in surgery  vi) Healthcare technologies and results in primary care and mental health, vii) Impact, risk and prevention of mental disorders, viii) Etiopathogeny and treatment of severe mental disorders.

FSJD has a solid experience both in presenting and managing European projects, being coordinators of one H2020 project and partners in several H2020 and FP7 projects.

Barcelona Children's Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) is one of the leading medical centers in Europe for childhood and adolescence and offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to health care from birth through 18 years of age. HSJD combines basic general pediatrics with specialized care for all tertiary-level pediatric pathologies, covering a pediatric population of 200,000 children. Annually it attends more than 25,619 in-patient admissions, 115,413 emergencies and 3. 244 births, with 360 beds, 137 outpatient rooms and 13 operating rooms.

The hospital is accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Health as a reference center for all Spain in a wide range of specialties and conditions.

New Paediatric Institute for Rare Diseases (IPER): Sant Joan de Déu Maternity-Children’s Hospital has opened a new paediatric institute conceived to advance knowledge and research in the field of rare diseases, offering integral treatment and care to the over 10,000 patients with low-prevalence disorders who are currently being attended to at our institution and a quicker diagnosis of other children and adolescents who may be suffering from such ;

Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu (PSSJD) is composed by several health care centers, including a Mental Health Centre and an Adult General Hospital. Our Mental Health Centre is integrated by different services like Acute Inpatient Units, Severe Mental Health Inpatient Unit, Day Hospitals, Community Mental Health Services, and Rehabilitation Units providing comprehensive mental health and disability services, including neurodegenerative diseases to a service area that includes approximately people. PSSJD focuses on bringing together basic research scientists and research clinicians in the areas of public health, mental disorders and disability. It includes geriatrics, long-term care institutions and has a brain bank specifically devoted to psychiatric disorders.

The institution also develops new health care services, as home care for persons with severe disability or tele-medicine.

The General Adult Hospital Hospital has 120 beds organized in 23 medical specialties, including internal medicine, respiratory diseases, traumatology, cardiology, nutrition and endocrinology.

PSSJD and HSJD counts with a highly specialized Clinical Trials Unit, which offers expert advice to researchers on ethical standards, regulations and negotiation of contracts topics, technical guidance on clinical protocols and support on the performance of non-commercial clinical trials (from recruitment of cohorts, assessment or sample and data collection). It centralizes all the information and is the contact point of: Investigators, Pharmacy service, CRO‐Monitor, Sponsor, ;HSJD is the National leading center on the number of Paediatric Clinical Trails, -  currently managing 164 active projects, 96 Clinical Trials, 46 Observational Studies, 12 Clinical Research Projects and 10 Clinical Innovation Projects

The Clinical Trials Unit actively contribute and partner with regional, national and International paediatric research networks.

Keywords and matching areas:

 Biological Sciences
 E-Health
 Innovation & Research
 Medical Biotechnology
 Biology
 Research

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