Teaching staff
GUILLERMO RUIZ IRASTORZA
- Knowledge area
- Medicine
- Department
- Medicine
- Centre
- Faculty of Medicina and Nursing
- Electronic mail
- guillermo.ruiz@ehu.eus
Born 4th January 1966 in Bilbao, The Basque Country, Spain
1990.- M.D. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
1999.- Ph.D. Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
1996.- Specialist in Internal Medicine
1991-1995.- Resident in Internal Medicine, HU Cruces
1994 & 1999-2000.- Research Fellow, Lupus Research Unit, St. Thomas' Hospital, UK
1997-2001.- Consultant Physician, Internal Medicine, Hospital de Mendaro
2001.- Consultant Physician, Internal Medicine, HU Cruces
2010.- Chief of the Autoimmune Diseases Unit, HU Cruces
2004.- Professor of Medicine, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
213 indexed publications
H index WOS 53
Main research areas: systemic lupus erythematosus, antiphospholipid syndrome, pregnancy and autoimmune diseases.
Full member of the Systemic Lupus Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) since 2008.
Coordinator of the Spanish national lupus inception cohort study (RELES) since 2008.
Coordinator of the Autoimmune, Inflammatory and Infectious Diseases Research Area, BioCruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute since 2008.
Head of the Autoimmune Diseases Research Group, BioCruces Bizkaia Health Research Institute.
Reviewer of several journals in the field of Rheumatology and Autoimmune Diseases (Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Arthritis & Rheumatology, Arthritis Care & Research, Lancet Rheumatology, Rheumatology, Journal of Rheumatology, Lupus, Lupus Science & Medicine)