Lara Martínez Gimeno

Professor Lara Martínez Gimeno holds a PhD in Applied Research in Health Sciences from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the University of León and the University of Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro (Portugal). She holds a degree in Humanities from the European University of Madrid and a Diploma in Nursing from the Complutense University of Madrid (CEU-Hospital del Aire School of Nursing). Her professional experience in clinical practice has been developed in the Anaesthesia and Resuscitation Unit and in the Nursing Research area of the University Hospital of Móstoles, where she has worked as a scientific advisor in research methodology, research utilisation and evidence-based practice. She is an evaluator of research projects in public calls for proposals, a scientific reviewer of translations for the Spanish Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, and a reviewer for the scientific journal Enfermería Clínica. She has research experience in national and European projects.

Since 2007, she has collaborated as an undergraduate and postgraduate lecturer at various universities and public institutions, teaching Research Methodology and Statistical Methods and supervising final degree projects. From 2018 to 2023, she was the Final Degree Project Coordinator at the San Rafael Health Sciences Campus and lecturer in Research Methodology in Healthcare. Since 2024, she has been the research coordinator at EUEF San Juan de Dios-Universidad Pontificia Comillas.