Cristian Marco Alacid is a specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition at Hospital General Universitario Virgen de los Lirios in Alcoy, Spain, and a part-time clinical lecturer (Profesor Asociado) at the University of Alicante.
He obtained his medical degree from Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (2014) and his PhD from Universitat de València (2022), with a thesis on the pharmacoeconomic evaluation of treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus. His postgraduate qualifications include university-specific master’s degrees (títulos propios) in Research Methodology in Health Sciences from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2019) and in the Management of Disease-Related Malnutrition from Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (2022).
He has also completed postgraduate training in health sciences statistics (UAB, 2017), treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (UAB, 2019), organ-specific artificial nutrition (UNED, 2021), and innovation in the care of people with type 2 diabetes (Universidad de Deusto, 2022), as well as the advanced university course in Food, Obesity and Diabetes at Universidad Católica San Antonio.
His clinical work combines general endocrinology with thyroid nodule assessment, ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration, and clinical nutrition, including the management of malnutrition and follow-up after bariatric surgery. He teaches Medicine and Endocrinology, with an interest in clinical reasoning, assessment and simulation. He chairs his hospital’s Nutrition and Dietetics Committee and is a member of its Research Committee.
Cristian Marco Alacid is a specialist in Endocrinology and Nutrition at Hospital General Universitario Virgen de los Lirios in Alcoy, Spain, and a part-time clinical lecturer (Profesor Asociado) at the University of Alicante.
He obtained his medical degree from Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (2014) and his PhD from Universitat de València (2022), with a thesis on the pharmacoeconomic evaluation of treatments for type 2 diabetes mellitus. His postgraduate qualifications include university-specific master’s degrees (títulos propios) in Research Methodology in Health Sciences from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2019) and in the Management of Disease-Related Malnutrition from Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio (2022).
He has also completed postgraduate training in health sciences statistics (UAB, 2017), treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (UAB, 2019), organ-specific artificial nutrition (UNED, 2021), and innovation in the care of people with type 2 diabetes (Universidad de Deusto, 2022), as well as the advanced university course in Food, Obesity and Diabetes at Universidad Católica San Antonio.
His clinical work combines general endocrinology with thyroid nodule assessment, ultrasonography and fine-needle aspiration, and clinical nutrition, including the management of malnutrition and follow-up after bariatric surgery. He teaches Medicine and Endocrinology, with an interest in clinical reasoning, assessment and simulation. He chairs his hospital’s Nutrition and Dietetics Committee and is a member of its Research Committee.