Susana Puig is mourning after being named director of the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute while also being eager to embrace the new challenge. At 60, she acknowledges that her new role will consume much of her time, which means a reduction in her interactions with patients. The doctor-patient relationship is fundamental to her, as evidenced by her long-term engagements with families, particularly in familial melanoma cases. Puig makes history as the first woman to lead IDIBAPS and aims to advance translational research from the clinic to broader scientific applications.
The positive aspect of my profession is the relationship with people and being able to help them, creating a bond with patients.
I treat families with familial melanoma, including the first patient I included in my doctoral thesis in the 1990s.
My new job is a stone's throw away from the hospital, fitting perfectly with my obsession for advancing translational research.
We are in a complicated time in which science has arrived at places that we couldn't have imagined.
Collection
[
|
...
]