Dr Meritxell Davins Riu is a vascular surgeon and specialist in digital transformation and health. She is currently the Director of Transformation and Digital Health at Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol. Additionally, she teaches the eHealth course at Blanquerna – Ramon Llull University’s nursing school and three courses in the Digital Health master’s programme at the Univeristat oberta de Catalunya.

She supervises four PhD theses in this field and annually mentors four final-year nursing projects and ten master’s theses. She completed her PhD, with cum laude distinction in 2015, on Telemedicine and Peripheral Arterial Disease. She is a Principal Investigator of the INEDIT research group (Innovation, Economics, and Digital Transformation) and her research focuses on Health results, health literacy, patient empowerment, the digital gap, patient experience, and gender bias.

Encompassing these research interests, she is keen to develop innovative strategies and interventions to enhance patient engagement and improve adherence to prescribed telemedicine therapies. The integration of comprehensive datasets, robust quantitative analyses alongside qualitative insights provides a holistic understanding of adherence behaviour, identifying key barriers and enablers, offering an evidence-based foundation for exploring strategies to improve adherence rates, leading to more effective digital health interventions.

Meritxell is currently the Principal Investigator of two European projects and is involved in a FIS (Fondo de Investigación en Salud) project. She is also the Principal Investigator or a collaborating researcher in six research projects. She is a member of the steering committee for the Health AI programme of the Government of Catalonia and has participated in multiple national and international digital transformation projects.