Lidia Martínez Sánchez

After completing my training as a Paediatric Resident Intern at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital, in 2002 I began my professional career as an assistant in the Paediatric Emergency Unit. In 2010 I received an accreditation in Paediatric Emergency Medicine from the Spanish Association of Paediatrics, and I am currently a consultant level attending. In 2019 I started, with the support of my superiors and colleagues, the project of the Paediatric Toxicology Clinic, the only one of its kind in Spain, for which I am responsible. I complement my healthcare work with teaching and research and, since 2022, I have been an associate lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona.

Training

• Expert in clinical toxicology, Institut de Formació Contínua-IL3 Universitat de Barcelona, 2023.
• Training in care for young people with substance use: Motivational interviewing, Barcelona, 2024.
• Counselling for Hospital Emergencies with young people and excessive drug use, Barcelona, 2009.
• Training at the Clinical Toxicology Unit, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, 2019.
• Doctor in Medicine, Universitat de Barcelona, 2015. Doctoral thesis: ‘Improving the quality of care for intoxicated paediatric patients using quality indicators’.
• Regular attendance at courses and conferences in the field of Clinical Toxicology, including: ‘FETOC Clinical Toxicology Refresher Courses’, ‘FETOC Clinical Toxicology Conference’, ‘Antidotes Conference’, pre-congress courses and congress of the European Association of Poisons Centres and Clinical Toxicologists.
• Degree in Medicine and Surgery, Universitat de Barcelona, 1997. Specialist in Paediatrics, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona, 2002.

International experience

• European Registered Toxicologist, Federation of European Toxicologists and European Societies of Toxicology, since July 2020.
• Speaker on behalf of Hospital Sant Joan de Déu at the ‘18th SEHA International Pediatric Conference’, Abu Dhabi, 2024.
• Lecturer in paediatric toxicology at the ‘Jornada Iberoamericana de Toxicología Clínica SIBSA-FETOC-RETOXLAC’, 2024.
• Lecturer in paediatric toxicology at the ‘Encuentro Internacional de Toxicología Clínica. Asociación Nacional Mexicana de Urgencias/Emergencias Pediátricas’, Mexico, 2024.
• Lecturer in paediatric toxicology at the ‘III Congress of the Latin American Society of Paediatric Emergency Medicine. 10th Argentinean Congress of Emergencies and Critical Care’, Buenos Aires, 2022.
• Instructor in the course ‘Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS). Pediatric Emergencies of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ at Hospital Niños de Acosta Ñu (Asunción, Paraguay; 2014, 2021) and Colegio de médicos (San José, Costa Rica; 2017).

Scientific activity

• Coordinator of the Working Group on Poisoning at the Spanish Society of Paediatric Emergency Medicine since 2024. Member since 2008 and responsible for quality. Editor and co-author of the webapp TOXSEUP. Quick guide for the treatment of paediatric poisoning (1st ed 2023, 2nd ed 2025).
• Member of the Internal Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (2021 - present).
• Member of the Institut de Recerca Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (IRSJD). Line of research: Influence of the environment on the well-being of children and adolescents (2016-present).
• Member of the ‘Comité sobre l'ús dels antídots a Catalunya’ of the Departament de Salut de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Co-author of the Guidelines on antidotes for hospitals and primary care emergency centres in Catalonia. Member of the editorial committee of the ‘Butlletí d'antídots’. (2016-present).
• Member of the Antidotes working group of the Catalan Society of Pharmacy. Participation in the creation of the Antidote Network of Catalonia and the Antidote Network (national level). Participation in the group's research work (2013-present).
• Member of the Hospital Toxicovigilance Network of the Spanish Clinical Toxicology Foundation. Project funded by the Subdirectorate General of Environmental Health and Occupational Health of the Directorate General of Public Health of the Ministry of Health (2012-present).

Teaching

• Associate lecturer, Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Medicine, since 2022.
• Theoretical-Practical Course on Paediatric Emergencies for staff of the Emergency Medical System (SEM), Universitat de Barcelona.
• Course on Paediatric Emergencies and Emergencies of the Latin American Society of Paediatric Emergencies, online training.
• University Expert Course in Clinical Toxicology, Panamericana Virtual Training, since 2016.
• Course in Paediatric Pharmacy, Hospital Vall d'Hebrón, Barcelona.
• Course on Clinical Toxicology: concepts, updates and controversies, Palma de Mallorca.