Full Name
Juan Manuel Mendive
Job Title
Family Physician. MD, PhD
Company/Institution/ Organization
European Society For Primary Care Gastroenterology (ESPCG)
Speaker Bio
Family Physician at La Mina Primary Care Academic Centre (University of Barcelona)( 1990-present). Tutor of the Family Medicine teaching program and Trainer of family physicians at the Barcelona Family Medicine Teaching Unit since 1991.
He is the Spanish Representative at the European Society for Primary Care Gastroenterology (ESPCG), since 1996 and current President of ESPCG https://www.espcg.eu. He was vice-president of Wonca Europe Executive ( 1998-2001).
His main areas of interest are gastrointestinal problems on primary care (mainly MASLD - SLD ) reflux problems and funcional disorders - now DBGI-)
In relation to the MASLD-SLD activities, he is being participating at the international project: Developing, implementing and evaluating a clinical pathway for NASH/NAFLD patients in pri-mary care: a multicenter study, . http://www.nash.med.uoc.gr/. As first outcomes from this project two papers recently published: a publication on educational programe for general practitioners DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1034626. and a document with recommendations for MASLD manage in primary care: https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202406.1206/v1
He is being actively participating on different major initiatives: the EASL Lancet Liver Commis-sion, DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01701-3 , the Patient Guideline for NAFLD, PMC8514420 and the European Guideline on Obesity in patients with gastrointestinal and liver diseases DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(21)01701-3. and his participation at the Healthy Livers, Healthy Lives initiative that has recently published a Global Research Priority Agenda to fatty liver disease DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2023.04.035.
Dr.Mendive is also participating on the Rome V initiative for the development of the new recommendations for functional GI disorders in Primary Care . Main published papers on relevant IP journal can be seen through his profile page https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8095-7707
Juan Manuel Mendive