ane arbillaga etxarri

Physiotherapist with a PhD in Biomedicine specialized in chronic cardio-respiratory diseases and Principal Researcher of the Deusto Physical TherapIker Group. Her journey as a researcher began at the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona, and she later developed her doctoral thesis at the Environmental Epidemiology Research Center (today, the Barcelona Global Health Institute) located in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park. It is worth highlighting his participation in lines of research related to the study of the determinants of health, environmental and physical activity, in addition to the design and implementation of exercise and therapeutic physical activity interventions in the community and based on behavior change, Rehabilitation Pulmonary and exercise physiology, always focused on chronic respiratory pathologies. His greatest contribution is the Urban Training project that was a pioneer in showing improvements in long-term physical activity in patients with COPD. She has also collaborated in studies on female trawler rowing and is currently working on new lines of research on dyspnea from a neuroscientific perspective and quality in decision-making in the oncological context from a feminist perspective. Her profile as a researcher combines it with academic management and teaching, being the Director of the Department of Physiotherapy, the coordinator of the doctoral program Health, Wellbeing and Bioethics shared with the Pontifical University of Comillas and Blanquerna, Ramon Llull, and the vice dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences on the Donostia-San Sebastián Campus. Tutoring Monday and Wednesday from 12:00 to 13:00. Antxieta Building, office located in the Secretariat of the Faculty of Health Sciences