Senior Consultant, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Coordinator of the Pediatric Home ventilation program
Barcelona Children’s Hospital. Hospital Sant Joan de Déu. University of Barcelona
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Dr. Pons' main clinical interest is respiratory care in critically ill patients and patients requiring long-term mechanical ventilation. His research field focuses on mechanical ventilation, especially non-invasive ventilation. He has published more than 70 studies in indexed journals (H-index 17). In 2015 he published the third edition of the book “NIV in Pediatrics” written in collaboration with Dr. Medina.
Founding member of the respiratory work groups of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Intensive Care (SECIP) and the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC), he has been coordinator of both. He has actively participated in NIV research and teaching internationally, participating in multiple courses and presentations at international conferences, highlighting several editions of the NIV workshops in World Congress of the Federation of Intensive Care Societies (WFPICC) meetings since 2011. He also has participated as speaker in a few JIVD meeting in Lyon and ERS Mechanical Ventilation Conference in Berlin 2020
He is currently a member of the Educational Board of ESPNIC.