Lines of research focused mainly on the field of infectious diseases in immunosuppressed patients and high prevalence infections in children, having coordinated more than 20 research projects, especially on HIV infection in children and adolescents, mostly publicly funded. in competitive calls.
Head of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital Research Institute.
Coordinator of the Cohort of Children with HIV Infection and the Cohort of Mothers-Children with HIV Infection in Madrid.
Member of the Steering Committee of PENTA (Pediatric European Network for Treatment of AIDS since 1998, and of EPPICC (European Pregnancy and Pediatric HIV Cohorts Collaboration) since 2006.
Member of the ESTHER cooperation project of the Ministry of Health since 2004, with twinning of hospitals in Ecuador.
Advisor to the National AIDS Plan of the Ministry of Health since 1998.
President of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases from March 2016 to October 2020.
Member of the AEP Research Committee from 2012 to 2018.
Member of the National Commission of the Specialty of Pediatrics since 2017.
Participation and organization of numerous training courses in pediatric infectious diseases, including international PENTA courses.
Author of 420 publications (344 indexed in JCR) and 110 book chapters, until January 2022, most of them on pediatric infectious diseases.