Dr Xavier Corbella is currently Deputy Director of the Medicine Department and lecturer of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, as well as director of the Hestia Chair in Integrated Social and Health Care at UIC Barcelona. Among his new duties at the Club Blaugrana is that of managing the affiliated physicians and physiotherapists for the professional and non-professional teams (about 2,500 athletes), the medical centre located in the Joan Gamper Sports City, the rest of the professionals who support sports medicine such as nutritionists, cardiologists, radiologists, nurses and podiatrists, occupational health care for non-athletic workers, and coordination of the emergency systems at the Camp Nou Stadium, Palau Blaugrana Stadium or Johan Cruyff Stadium.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine from the UAB (1988), Dr Corbella is an Internal Medicine Specialist through MIR (Spanish specialist medical training programme), PHd in Medicine from the UB (2000) with Extraordinary Doctoral Award, and UB Faculty of Doctors Award (5th Edition) for the best doctoral thesis of all university disciplines in the 1999-2000 academic year.

Before joining FCB, he has been Medical Director of the Althaia Foundation Hospitals in Manresa (2005-2007), Managing Director of the Bellvitge University Hospital and the ICS Metropolitan South Area (2008-2012), President of the Governing Board of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) (2008-2012), Managing Director of the Hospital Sant Pau (2012-2013) and, for the last 9 years, Chief of the Internal Medicine Department of the Bellvitge University Hospital (2013-2022). He has published 174 indexed scientific articles (four 6-year CNEAI research periods), directed 11 doctoral theses, and has been Secretary General of the European Federation of Internal Medicine.