Pere Clavé: Director of Academic, Research and Innovation at the Hospital de Mataró. PI of the Digestive Physiology Group Ciberehd-CSdM-UAB with 19 basic and clinical researchers. Author of 217 publications, 3 books and 29 chapters, 3 patents, and Director of 26 doctoral theses and 2 startups. Index H=60, index i10=163, Professor UAB, Professor AQU. Founding President of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders, International Councilor of the Dysphagia Research Society; and of the Argentine Dysphagia Association, Member of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, of the College of Canada Research Chairs, of the Japanese Society for Dysphagia Rehabilitation. 2017 Research Award of the Official College of Physicians of Barcelona. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for Research in Gastroenterology and of the Fundació Academia de Ciencies Mediques de Catalunya i Balears. President of the First World Dysphagia Summit in 2017. In June 2022 invited Nobel Laureate David Julius to the 150th Anniversary of l’ACMCB in Barcelona and to the neuroscience seminar at the Hospital de Mataró.