Recognized nationally for his most recent Iberian Press Award for Innovation in Medicine in the Surgical and Medical-Surgical Pathologies modality, Dr. Rafael Badenes Quiles is an eminent figure in the area of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, responsible for Mobile ECMO for Transplants in the Valencian Community. 

He is a pioneer in establishing an extracorporeal system, which is usually used in units for respiratory or hemodynamic support, in the process of recovery of organs of a deceased person for transplantation.  This work has allowed him to become Sector Transplant Coordinator, as well as Head of the Department of Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy at the Clinical University Hospital of Valencia. 

Along with his intense clinical activity, he does not stop promoting lines of research accumulating 120 publications in the most prestigious indexed journals in his field from the Research Group in Anesthesia of INCLIVA, team of which he is part as principal researcher, moving his studies to the field of Neurocritical Care and organ donation and transplants.

• Head of Section of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. Clinical Hospital of Valencia
• Sectorial Transplant Coordinator and responsible for the mobile ECMO program for transplants in Valencia
• Transplant Coordinator of the Clinical University Hospital of Valencia 
• Specialist in Anesthesiology Clinical University Hospital of Valencia
• Professor of the Department of Surgery, University of Valencia
• Full Professor Accredited by the National Agency of Evaluation and Prospective (ANECA) 
• Examiner for the European Diploma in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC) 
• Principal Researcher of the Research Group in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation. INCLIVA Health Research Institute 
• Spanish representative of the NeuroIntensive Care Section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
• Reviewer of indexed journals of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care such as The Lancet
• Author of 144 scientific publications and 2 projects 
• Co-author of the eighth Council of Europe Guide on the Quality and Safety of Organs for Transplantation 
• PhD from the Autonomous University of Madrid 
• Degree in Medicine. Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia 
• Specialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation via MIR at the Clinical University Hospital of Valencia
• Master's Degree in Clinical Trials. University of Valencia 
• Member of National and International Scientific Societies of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care