Joaquin Cabezas is a gastroenterology and hepatology physician and a staff member in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department at Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital, Santander, Spain. He obtained his Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2006. He finished his specialist residence at Marques de Valdecilla University Hospital in 2011. His investigation interests include clinical research in liver diseases. The scope of liver diseases is hepatitis C and B and alcoholic and non-alcoholic liver diseases. He is part of a research group named “Clinical and Translational Research in Digestive Diseases", which is included in IDIVAL (Instituto de Investigación Valdecilla, Santander, Spain). In 2015, he spent a one-year stay in translational formation with Dr. Ramon Bataller at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (North Carolina, United States). His current research projects include hepatitis B, C, and delta epidemiology, models of care, and alcohol-related hepatitis. He is a collaborator in the JailFree-C project and The HONEST project focused on hepatitis C management in the correctional setting. These studies provide a model of care including a test-and-treat strategy and a navigator/multidisciplinary team/telemedicine tools in an underserved population in prison in Cantabria, Spain. Since the success of these projects, he and Professor Javier Crespo are the leaders of the Strategic Plan for hepatitis C elimination in Cantabria.