Josep Medina
Josep Medina
Building on his background as a physiotherapist and clinical psychologist—culminating in a PhD in Psychology from the University of Barcelona—he has worked with a wide range of patients suffering from spinal cord and brain injuries. Since 1990, his professional career has been continuously linked to the Institut Guttmann, a hospital specializing in neurorehabilitation.
His professional trajectory—encompassing clinical, academic, scientific, and professional roles—is closely tied to the care of patients with severe physical disabilities of neurological origin. He currently serves as the Head of Territorial Consolidation at the Institut Guttmann, having previously spent over 25 years as the Head of the Functional Rehabilitation Department at the same institution.
Alongside his management and coordination duties within the hospital’s Functional Rehabilitation Department, he has held teaching positions in various undergraduate and postgraduate physiotherapy programs at numerous universities (including Vic, the International University of Catalonia, Manresa, Blanquerna, the University of Barcelona, EUSES-Girona, Gimbernat, Salamanca, and McGill University in Canada). He currently serves as a coordinator and lecturer for a mandatory second-year course in the Physiotherapy degree program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona—"Instrumental Assessment in Physiotherapy for the Musculoskeletal System"—a role he has held as a part-time Clinical Associate Professor since 2012.
He has also taught in various master’s degree programs, most notably serving as the coordinator for the Official Master’s Degree in Neurorehabilitation at the Guttmann-UAB University Institute. As a researcher, he has participated in numerous research projects and holds an accreditation as an Associate Professor (*Agregado*) from the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU) —2019 call, ID: KQ0TG8WBZ— as well as a positive evaluation for the position of Assistant Professor (*Profesor Ayudante Doctor*) from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA), reference 2012/04090.
In 2020, he received the June Nystrom Career Achievement Award, presented by the College of Physiotherapists of Catalonia.