Teresa Sagales

Teresa Sagales
Teresa Sagalés in Baltimore, MD (May 2010)
Born
Teresa Sagalés Sala

1943 (age 82–83)
Barcelona, Spain
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
Known forResearch in sleep disorders and neurophysiology
Scientific career
FieldsClinical neurophysiology
WorkplacesVall d'Hebron University Hospital

Teresa Sagalés Sala is a prominent Catalonian physician, clinical neurophysiologist and researcher.

Biography

Teresa Sagalés was born in Barcelona a few years after the end of the Spanish Civil War. After graduating as a medical doctor at the University of Barcelona, she married clinical pharmacologist Sergio Erill[1][2] and moved to the United States, where she initiated her professional career working under neuropharmacologist Edward F. Domino on the effects of stress, psychoactive agents and REM sleep deprivation on sleep patterns at the University of Michigan.[3][4] Upon her return to Spain, Sagalés began her tenure as a clinical neurophysiologist at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital,[5] one of the principal tertiary hospitals in Catalonia,[6] where she pioneered sleep research in Spain.[7] In 1991, she was promoted to Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Service, becoming one of the first female clinical department heads at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital.

Career

Sagalés developed her career mainly at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, first as a clinician and then as Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Service from 1991 until her retirement. Her clinical work established Vall d'Hebron University Hospital as a premier center for sleep medicine and neurophysiology in Europe and was integrated within the hospital's neuroscience area, collaborating with departments including neurology, otorhinolaryngology, pneumology and other related specialties.[8]

Following early work on electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG) and evoked potentials with Maria Dolores de la Calzada, Sagales is credited with initiating the field of clinical sleep research in Spain, performing the first polysomnographies as early as 1972[9] and extensive work in electrooculography and its clinical applications in the early 1980s.[10]

Sagalés has been a prominent leader in several scientific societies and organizations.[11] She was a founding member of the Spanish Sleep Society (SES),[7][12] member of the Spanish Health Ministry Clinical Neurophysiology Commission,[11] president and secretary of the Catalan Society for Clinical Neurophysiology,[13][14] member of the executive committee for the European Chapter International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN),[15] international delegate for the Spanish Society for Clinical Neurophysiology,[11] and a prominent member of the European Sleep Research Society, where she co-founded the Forum for Women in Sleep Research.[12]

Research

The research career of Sagalés spans, among other, large-scale epidemiological studies, neurophysiological studies of neurological disorders like Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's, and the application of quantitative EEG for analyzing sleep microstructure.

Together with Maurice M Ohayon and other prominent sleep researchers, in 1997 Sagales developed and promoted the adoption of the Sleep-EVAL System as a standardized method to perform population studies on sleep health.[16] Leveraging this methodology, she conducted the first systematic epidemiological studies of sleep patterns in the Spanish population, generating the first comprehensive data on the prevalence of insomnia across the Spanish population.[17][18]

She has also contributed to reference works in sleep medicine, particularly in areas related to polysomnography, sleep monitoring, and diagnostic evaluation.

Besides her extensive research publication record, Sagales authored multiple sections of the reference textbook on sleep in Spain, "A treaty on sleep medicine".[19][20]

References

  1. ↑ Baeyens, José Manuel; Lucena, María Isabel (2020). "In Memoriam. Sergio Erill Sáez (1938-2020)" (PDF). actualidad en farmacología y terapéutica. 18 (2): 75–79.
  2. ↑ "Galeria_metges" (in Catalan). Col·legi Oficial de Metges de Barcelona.
  3. ↑ Sagales, Teresa; Domino, Edward F. (1973). "Effects of stress and REM sleep deprivation on the patterns of avoidance learning and brain acetylcholine in the mouse". Psychopharmacologia. 29 (5): 307–315. doi:10.1007/BF00429278. hdl:2027.42/46385. PMID 4350472.
  4. ↑ Sagales, Teresa; Erill, Sergio; Domino, Edward F. (1969). "Differential effects of scopolamine and chlorpromazine on REM and NREM sleep in normal male subjects". Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 10 (4): 522–529. doi:10.1002/cpt1969104522. hdl:2027.42/117236. PMID 4307415.
  5. ↑ "Boletín Oficial del Estado" (PDF) (in Spanish). Ministerio de Trabajo de España.
  6. ↑ "Àrea de Neurociències" (in Catalan). Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron.
  7. 1 2 "Por qué no dormimos bien la primera noche en un sitio nuevo" (in Spanish). La Vanguardia.
  8. ↑ "Memòria VHIR 2005" (PDF) (in Catalan). Institut de Recerca Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron.
  9. ↑ Billiard, M (1973). "Sleep medicine, sleep research, and sleep education: a whole life devoted to sleep". Sleep Advances. 5 (5) zpae029. doi:10.1093/sleepadvances/zpae029. PMID 38841255.
  10. ↑ "Cent Anys d'Història SCN" (PDF) (in Catalan). Societat Catalana de Neurologia.
  11. 1 2 3 "Catálogo de técnicas y procedimientos INGESA" (PDF) (in Spanish). INGESA.
  12. 1 2 "40th Anniversary of the ESRS" (PDF). European Sleep Research Society.
  13. ↑ "Memòria del Curs 2003-2004" (PDF) (in Catalan). Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears.
  14. ↑ "Memòria del Curs 2009-2010" (PDF) (in Catalan). Acadèmia de Ciències Mèdiques i de la Salut de Catalunya i de Balears.
  15. ↑ "History of the IFCN" (PDF). Elsevier.
  16. ↑ Ohayon, Maurice M.; Guilleminault, Christian; Paiva, Teresa; Smirne, Stefano (1997). "An international study on sleep disorders in the general population: Methodological aspects of the use of the Sleep-EVAL system". Sleep. 20 (12): 1086–1092. doi:10.1093/sleep/20.12.1086. PMID 9493916.
  17. ↑ Ohayon, Maurice M.; Sagalés, Teresa (2010). "Prevalence of insomnia and sleep characteristics in the general population of Spain". Sleep Medicine. 11 (10): 1010–1018. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2010.02.018. PMID 21093362.
  18. ↑ "Uno de cada cinco españoles padece insomnio". Europa Press. 23 March 2011.
  19. ↑ "Indice Tratado en Medicina del Sueño" (PDF). Sociedad Española del Sueño.
  20. ↑ de Andrés de la Calle, Isabel; Bové Ribé, Antonio; Cañellas Dols, Francesca; Durán Cantolla, Joaquín; Estivill Sancho, Eduard; García Borreguero Díaz-Varela, Diego; García Río, Francisco; Giménez Badia, Sandra; Iranzo de Riquer, Álex; Montserrat Canal, Josep M.; Pin Arboledas, Gonzalo; Puertas Cuesta, Francisco Javier; Sagalés Sala, Teresa (2015). Tratado de Medicina del Sueño (in Spanish). Sociedad Española del Sueño (SES). ISBN 978-84-9835-203-0.
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