Dr. Montserrat García Balletbó
President of the García Cugat Foundation
Dra. Montserrat García-Balletbó graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona in 1978, specialising in Pathological Anatomy in 1981. She defended her thesis, “Pressures in the Posterior Meniscal Horns as a Function of Variations in the Insertions of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament of the Knee,” in 1993, receiving an excellent cum laude.
Between 1978 and 1981, she worked at the Department of Histology and Pathological Anatomy at the Hospital Clinic and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona. Subsequently, and until 1984, she conducted research on the cell population of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma using immunoperoxidase staining techniques, funded by a grant from the Department of Education. She also completed an internship in the pathology department at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She obtained a Master’s degree in Sports Traumatology from the University of Barcelona in 1999 and currently works at the Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Service of the Cugat Institute, an ISAKOS-accredited teaching centre.
She is a founding member and President of the García Cugat Foundation for Biomedical Research, which aims to promote health and well-being through the development of new biological therapies for age-related diseases, with a particular focus on the musculoskeletal system.