Dr Porta-Sánchez graduated in Medicine at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2007 and started his residency in Cardiology at Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona. After completing his residency, in 2013 he received a Post-graduate training grant of "la Caixa" Banking Foundation and pursued further clinical and research training in Arrhythmia at the University of Toronto (Canada) from 2014 until 2017. He simultaneously completed his Masters in Methodology of Clinical Research at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2017 and currently he is a PhD candidate for the Universitat de Barcelona. In December 2017 he obtained his Fellowship in Cardiac Electrophysiolgy title from University of Toronto and decided to come back to his country of origin to pursue an Academic career in Cardiology. He is currently staff cardiologist and leads the Arrhythmia Unit at Hospital Universitario Quirónsalud Madrid. In March 2018 he received his first competitive grant as a PI from Sociedad Española de Cardiología for a clinical project in electroanatomical mapping.
