Sans, Susana, MD

Susana Sans has directed or played a major role in the development of CVD epidemiology in Barcelona and throughout Europe since the 1980s, serving in the WHO MONICA surveillance program and writing on risk trends. She was active in the development of the Working Group in Epidemiology for the European Society of Cardiology, now as Director of the Institute for Health Studies of Barcelona, and remains a central figure today in Spanish and in international epidemiology and public health.