An intensive-care doctor and anaesthesiologist, she was the first woman medical director of the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge. She started her professional association with the hospital in 1978, when she began working there as an anaesthesiologist and intensive-care doctor. At first she worked as an anaesthesiologist and intensive-care doctor. She helped to promote the creation of a post-operative recovery room, a cutting-edge service that was launched in 1986. She then earned her doctorate and was named head of section. In 1991 she was offered a post on the managerial team, which she accepted while earning a Master's in the Economics of Health and Healthcare Management. In addition to directing the Barcelona hospital, she has also held important managerial positions at the Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII in Tarragona.
An internal medicine physician and anaesthesiologist, she was the first woman medical director of the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge and has held other managerial posts, like the executive of the Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII of Tarragona.