1. Current Status, Position

Núria Sala is currently a Head of the Pharmacy Department. She is leading different projects related to transformation and evolution of the Pharmacy Department. 

2. Education

She studied Pharmacy at the University of Barcelona and became licensed pharmacist in 2005. In 2010 she obtained a hospital pharmacy specialization after 4 years in Hospital Universitario Morales Meseguer in Murcia (Spain). She has done internships abroad in different fields related to pharmacy: France (Pharmacy Office), Canada (Medicines Agency) and the United States (Hospital Pharmacy). She worked as a Hospital Pharmacist at the Hospital de Sant Pau i de la Santa Creu (Barcelona, 2011) and from then on, as a Hospital Pharmacist and current Head of the Pharmacy Department at Althaia, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu de Manresa (Barcelona). She complemented her training with the Official Master's Degree in "Food and Health" (University of Murcia) and the Master's Degree in Scientific, Medical and Environmental Communication (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). Also she was the co-creator and co-coordinator (2018-2020) and is current member of the Coordinating Committee of the Pain Group (Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacists).

3. Research Area

Her research focuses on pain management, including the clinical and educational approach and the role that pharmacists can play.

4. Conflict of interest

None