Dr. Marta Sitges completed her degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 1993. Since that time, she has stayed at the Hospital Clínic (Barcelona, Spain) as resident, research fellow and then as a permanent staff cardiologist. She also visited the Cardiovascular Imaging Center at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA, during a 1-year fellowship. In 2003, she obtained her PhD degree from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, focusing on the effects of hormonal replacement therapy on vascular reactivity. Her main research interests currently include cardiac imaging, resynchronization therapy, valvular heart disease, and cardiac remodeling. She has published more than 250 peer reviewed papers (Hindex 50), presented more than 300 lectures in National and International meetings, written 36 book chapters, received 60 grants, including H2020 projects and prizes (16 as Principal Investigator), and directed 12 completed and 3 ongoing PhD theses. She is also referee for most of the principal cardiovascular journals and Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She was certified in “Management of Integrated Health Systems” by the business school ESADE in 2012. Dr. Sitges is the coordinator of the Sports Cardiology Group at Hospital Clinic and director of the program of Sports Cardiology at FC Barcelona since 2009. She has been staff cardiologist since 2001 at the Cardiovascular Institute in Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Head of Cardiac Imaging from 2013 to 2015 and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute since October 2015.