Meritxell is an Internal Medicine physician with extensive experience in Hepatology. She specialized in hepatic encephalopathy and alcohol-related liver disease during her doctoral and postdoctoral studies, respectively. She is currently the coordinator of the Alcohol-Related Liver Disease Group at Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron.

Her research interests include the changes of gut microbiome in alcoholic hepatitis and predictors of mortality. She aims to contribute to develop early diagnostic tools in alcohol-related liver disease and closing the health equity gap for patients with acoholic hepatis.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve been fascinated by biology and medicine! Using science to figure out what makes people feel pain and being able to help them is my motivation”, says Meritxell.