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Friday, 12/02/2011
Catia Cillóniz succesfully defended her doctoral thesis: Community-acquired pneumonia: A prospective study of etiology and clinical outcome over a period of 12 years of study
The public event was held last November 29th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine
Catia Cillóniz is a biologist specialized in microbiology who is currently working in the Applied Research in Respiratory diseases group in IDIBAPS of Barcelona. During her doctoral thesis in Hospital Clinic, Dr. Cillóniz research focused on the etiology of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Results were published in two journals of high impact factor: Thorax and Critical Care.The public event took place last November 29th in the University of Barcelona, Faculty of Medicine, Room 14, and the thesis tribunal comprised Dra. Rosario Menéndez, from Hospital La Fe in Valencia, Dr. Jordi Almirall, from Consorci Sanitari del Maresme and Dr. José Antonio Martínez, from Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.
The first article, Microbial aetiology of community-acquired pneumonia and its relation to severity (Thorax. 2011 Apr;66(4):340-6. Epub 2011 Jan 21), demonstrates that the distribution of aetiologies according to severity scores revealed corresponding patterns and that are more sensitive in identifying patients with GNEB and Pseudomonas aeruginosa as moderate and high risk aetiologies whereas mixed aetiologies may be underestimated. The second article, Community acquired polymicrobial pneumonia in the intensive care unit: aetiology and prognosis (Crit Care. 2011 Sep 14;15(5):R209) concludes that polymicrobial pneumonia is a risk factor for inappropriate initial antimicrobial treatment which in turn independently predicts hospital mortality.
Dr. Catia Cillóniz brilliantly defended her doctoral thesis and she obtained the best qualification, Excellent Cum Laude. The thesis' tribunal acknowledged the leadership of Prof. Torres as an example to follow and congratulated both Dr. Cillóniz and her thesis director, Prof. Antoni Torres, on his outstanding research career.