Francisco J. Medrano received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, in 1988 and 1997, respectively. He has been a Specialist in internal medicine with the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Seville, since 1994. He earned a Master’s in hospital management in 2008, and in quantitative methods for evidence-based medicine in 2009. Since 2010, he has been with the Departamento Medicina, Universidad de Sevilla, where he is currently a Professor of medicine, and with the Instituto de Biomedicina de Seville (IBiS), Seville, where he is a Co-Leader of the Research Group in Clinical Epidemiology and Vascular Risk. He has participated in 30 national and international research projects. His research interests include epidemiology and pathophysiology of infectious diseases, as well as clinical research and the development of health technologies in heart and lung diseases. He is a member of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) of epidemiology and public health and the thematic network of innovation in health technologies.