One of the interviews within the framework of the XXVI Congress of the Spanish Diabetes Society was with the prestigious Catalan endocrine Ramón Gomis.Ramón Gomis graduated in Medicine at the University of Barcelona in 1972. In 1976 he specialized in endocrinology and nutrition and in 1982 he was doctorate.From 1982 to 1984 he studied at the Free University of Brussels and when he returned he was appointed attached doctor at the Clinical Hospital of Barcelona.In this institution from 1992 to 1998 he was head of the Diabetes Section and from 1998 to 2003 of the Endocrinology Service.
In 2008 he was appointed director of the Clinic Foundation for Biomedical Research.He has also been director of the Biomedical Research Institute August Pi I Sunyer (IDIBAPS) and the Biomedical Research Center of Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases Associated (CIBERDEM).Since 2002 he is also a professor at the University of Barcelona.At present, he is also the president of the SED foundation.
Gomis, was the founder of the Independent Theater La Tartana de Reus and is the author of several plays.He has also published several narrative texts such as Mar de la Frau, boats and stoves and guide of the Costa Dorada.In 2003 he was appointed illustrious son of Reus and distinguished with the cross of San Jorge in 2013. A reference in the diabetes with which we talk about the low transcendence that a disease as serious as diabetes has in our society.
Dr. Gomis confessed to feeling surprised because "diabetes is not perceived as a socially important disease", in his opinion this "can be related to a very generic term, diabetes, which groups many different concepts in oneself, things likeDifferent gravity and medical complications or different social problems, for example that among all generate great confusion in society ”.
As an totally different example to diabetes, Dr. Gomis put the case of cancer, where a type of cancer is normally spoken based on the affected body and socially assumed that there are more serious and less serious.In diabetes everything is put in the same bag, “in the same term the diabetes of a six -month -old boy, of one of 3 years, of a adolescent of 14 or an adult who overweight is included a type two withoutForget pregnant women and gestational diabetes.
This is the big problem denouncing Dr. Gomis who says that “Latin countries should put a more defined focus and transmit more concrete problems in each type of diabetes.A solution could go through a new nomenclature of the disease, without numbers, although that is an important task.
The TV3 maralato
The 24th edition of the TV3 Marathon, which will be held on December 20 of this year, will be dedicated to metabolic diseases such as diabetes, according to the Board of Trustees of the La Mararat Foundation, at the proposal of the Scientific Advisory Commission.
That a television program like this has put the focus on issues such as diabetes has a very clear person in charge of Dr. Gomis, which we ask about this matter.In his words “La Mararató de TV3 is an excellent initiative, part of the basis of betting on research to improve the quality of life of people suffering from a disease and that is very new, to think that the progress of our society and be able to winDiseases for your knowledge through research is very important "
And it is that the TV3 maralato will be held on December 20 can collect more or less 10 million euros for research projects and also generates significant sensitivity and generosity by the population, without forgetting the great media value andof promotion because for 24 hours society will know the problem of a disease such as diabetes.Magnificent initiative that we support 100%.