She holds a PhD in Biology, specializing in Physical Anthropology, from the Complutense University of Madrid through a joint doctoral program with the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where she completed a predoctoral research placement between 2007 and 2008. She has carried out her research career at institutions including the Musée de l’Homme in Paris, the National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) in Madrid, and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, where she completed a postdoctoral fellowship from 2019 to 2023.

She currently coordinates the scientific activities of Fundación SHE’s cardiovascular health promotion projects, where her main research focus is primordial prevention of cardiovascular disease in children, adolescents, and adults.

She is the first author of more than a dozen scientific publications in leading international journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the Revista Española de Cardiología. She also serves as a peer reviewer for several scientific journals. One of her articles received the Spanish Society of Cardiology Award for the best publication in vascular risk and rehabilitation in 2016.

In addition, she has presented her work at more than 30 international congresses and conferences and actively participates in academic and scientific networks, including the CHILab-CNIC Cardiovascular Imaging and Health Laboratory, the Epinut-UCM Research Group, and the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Collaborator Network.

Publicaciones

  • Santos-Beneit G, Fernández-Jiménez R, de Cos-Gandoy A et al. Lessons Learned From 10 Years of Preschool Intervention for Health Promotion: JACC State-of-the-Art Review. J Am Coll Cardiol 2022; 79:283-298.
  • Fernández-Alvira JM, Fernández-Jiménez R, de Miguel M, et al. The challenge of sustainability: Long-term results from the Fifty-Fifty peer group-based intervention in cardiovascular risk factors. Am Heart J. 2021.
  • Santos-Beneit G, Fuster V, Fernández-Jiménez R. Comentario editorial: Uso de registros clínicos electrónicos en atención primaria con fines de investigación: ¿despegando? Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2021 Dec 22:S1885-5857(21)00356-X. English, Spanish. doi: 10.1016/j.rec.2021.10.018. Epub ahead of print.
  • Fernandez-Jimenez R, Santos-Beneit G, de Cos-Gandoy A et al. Prevalence and correlates of cardiovascular health among early adolescents enrolled in the SI! Program in Spain: a cross-sectional analysis. Eur. J. Prev. Cardiol, Nov 2020, zwaa096.
  • Fernández-Jiménez R, Briceño G, Céspedes J et al. Sustainability of and Adherence to Preschool Health Promotion Among Children 9 to 13 Years Old. J Am Coll Cardiol 2020, 75(13):1565-1578.
  • Laveriano-Santos EP, Parilli-Moser I, Ramírez-Garza SL et al. Polyphenols in Urine and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A Cross-Sectional Analysis Reveals Gender Differences in Spanish Adolescents from the SI! Program. Antioxidants 2020, 9(10): E910.
  • Fernández-Alvira JM, Santos-Beneit G, Fernández-Jiménez R. Comentario editorial. El aceite de oliva: beneficios más allá de la cuenca mediterránea. JACC (Spanish Edition) 2020; 01:63-65.
  • Santos-Beneit G, Marrodán MD. Comentario editorial: Are we on the right track to reduce childhood obesity? Rev Esp Cardiol 2020, 73(4):277-279
  • Santos-Beneit G, Ibanez B. Comentario editorial. Prevención primordial cardiovascular: la inteligencia resuelve problemas, la sabiduría los evita. J Am Coll Cardiol (Spanish Edition) 2019, 1 (9): 77-88.
  • Bodega P, Fernández-Alvira JM, Santos-Beneit G et al. Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Spanish Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the SI! Program for Health Promotion in Secondary Schools. Nutrients 2019, 11: 2297-2310.
  • Fernandez-Jimenez R, Santos-Beneit G, Tresserra-Rimbau A et al. Rationale and design of the school-based SI! Program to face obesity and promote health among Spanish adolescents: A cluster-randomized controlled trial. Am Heart J. 2019, 215:27-40.
  • Santos-Beneit G, Bodega P, de Miguel M et al. Rationale and design of the SI! Program for health promotion in elementary students aged 6 to 11 years: A cluster randomized trial. Am Heart J. 2019, 210:9-17.

Congresos

  • Early Imaging Markers of unhealthy lifestyles in Adolescents (EnIGMA): a multi-territory multi-parametric cardiovascular magnetic resonance study. ISCIII, FIS- PI19/01704, 2020-2022. Rodrigo Fernández-Jiménez (IP), CNIC.
  • School-based educational intervention to face obesity and promote cardiovascular health among Spanish adolescents: a cluster-randomized controlled trial
    Fundació La Marató de TV3, 2017-2019.
  • Gloria Santos-Beneit, FSHE (Co-IP); Rosa M. Lamuela, UB (Co-PI); Juan M. Fernández (CNIC), (Co-PI)
  • Promoción de la salud cardiovascular en niños de 3 a 5 años: Evaluación del Programa SI! de Educación Infantil mediante un ensayo aleatorizado y controlado en 20 escuelas.
  • ISCIII, FIS-PI11/01885, 2012-2015.
  • Juliana Redondo (IP), CNIC.
  • Estado nutricional y biodiversidad de las poblaciones humanas.
  • MICINN, GCL2005-03752/BOS, 2005-2010.
  • Mª Dolores Marrodán (IP), UCM.
  • Globalización de las conductas alimentarias en adolescentes: un enfoque pluridisciplinar.
  • MEC, 2008-1253000756, 2008-2009.
  • Consuelo Prado (Co-IP), Françoise Rovillé-Sausse (Co-IP), UAM-CNRS.
  • Estudio antropométrico del impacto de los sustitutos alimentarios como estrategia de control de peso e influencia en el cambio de hábitos alimentarios.
  • UCM 4153016-Herbalife, 2009.
  • Mª Dolores Cabañas (IP), UCM.
  • El entorno social y laboral de la mujer rural española: implicaciones en su percepción de salud y bienestar.
  • MLSA, 49/03, 2003-2007.
  • Consuelo Prado (IP), UAM.
  • Límites de la protección social: percepciones sobre opciones y alternativas reales de protección.
  • MLSA, TAS/1051/2005, 2005-2006.
  • Mariano Fernández (IP), USAL.
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