Dr. María José Ferrer Higueras is a specialist in Intensive Care Medicine with experience and training in Management Positions in the Health Sector, Health Management and Quality and Patient Safety. An intensive and fruitful professional career that has led her to assume positions of responsibility in the Reina Sofia University Hospital in Cordoba and in the North Health Management Area of Cordoba. 

Her constant updating on the functioning of the health system and its improvement has allowed her to successfully integrate the latest procedures to promote the care and satisfaction of patients and their families in hospital environments. A task that joins her continuous updating on Bioethics, Health Sustainability and Innovative Management.  

• Medical Director of the North Cordoba Health Management Area. 
• Deputy Medical Director of the Reina Sofia University Hospital in Cordoba. 
• Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at the Queen Sofia University Hospital of Cordoba 
• Instructor of Basic and Advanced Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) by the European Resuscitation Council (ERC)
• Postgraduate Certificate in Quality and Patient Safety in Health Institutions, taught by the Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP) 
• Master in Health Sustainability through Innovative Resource Management by the University of Valenci
• Degree in Medicine from the University of Cordoba  
• Postgraduate Certificate in Quality and Patient Safety in Health Institutions from the University of Granada 
• Postgraduate Certificate in Bioethics from the University of Granada. 
• Postgraduate Certificate in Management Development in the Health Sector from the International Andalusian University 
• Postgraduate Certificate in the "Advances in Medical-Surgical Specialties" Postgraduate Certificate from the Department of Medical-Surgical Specialties of the Cordoba University