Doctor Paco Biosca joined Chelsea as medical director in July 2011 having worked in a similar position at Shakhtar Donetsk for the previous six years.
A Spaniard, he worked for 25 years as head of medical services in his
homeland at Lleida, a Catalan club, and is a former president of the
European Federation of Orthopedics and Sports Trauma and a former
president of the Spanish Society of Football Team Doctors.
He is also president of the Iberia Biomechanical Society, founder and
subsequent president of the Spanish Society for Sports Trauma and
currently a member of the society's senate.
Academically he is a graduate of medicine and surgery from the
University of Barcelona and has a specialist medical degree in
Orthopaedics. He was Professor of Anatomy at the University of Lleida
for 12 years from 1994 and was co-director for the Masters in Sports
Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, INEF, for eight years.
In his professional life, prior to taking up his appointments in
football at Lleida and Shakhtar, he was a specialist doctor in
orthopaedic surgery at Arnau Vilanova Hospital in Lleida, head of
orthopaedic surgery service at Monserrat Hospital, and medical director
for competition tennis at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Dr Biosca has received a gold medal from the Assurance Society of
Spain for Sports Injuries and the Civil Order of Merit, Ukraine.
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