Patricia Rodríguez-Torres is a medical doctor with a specialization in internal medicine whose practice focuses on cardiovascular risk and minority diseases. She has been awarded the López Laguna Prize for the Best Scientific Work in Andalusia 2018 for the direction of a research that became the first study to date focused on the evaluation of three scales that allow predicting the risk of venous thromboembolism in ambulatory patients. He is currently in consultation at the public Hospital Nuestra Señora de Valme, Seville (Spain).