Affiliation: Sant Joan de Deu Research Institute, 08950 Barcelona, Spain, Cardiovascular Research Group, Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, Pediatric Cardiology Department; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA, Department of Critical Care Medicine

Dr. Joan Sanchez de Toledo is the chief of the Pediatric Cardiology Department at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital. Trained in pediatrics, neonatology, pediatric and cardiac critical care medicine, he works in the cardiac intensive care unit at Children´s Hospital of Pittsburgh, and more recently, he became the chief of the Pediatric Cardiology Department at SJD Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Moreover, Dr. Sanchez de Toledo is an Assistant professor in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Since his beginnings, one of his main focuses of interest was the long-term outcomes of children with cardiac diseases and more precisely, the neurodevelopmental outcome of children suffering from acute illnesses.

Considering his experience in basic research, while in Pittsburgh, he collaborates with the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research where he worked on the rat model of cardiopulmonary bypass. Upon moving to Barcelona, he develops the first experimental pediatric small animal cardiopulmonary bypass model existing in Spain.