Dolors Marco

Dolors Marco has 30 years of experience in the health sector, with more than 20 in managerial positions. She spent five years as the Corporate Director of Reputation and Communication at the University Clinic of Navarre at its headquarters in Pamplona and Madrid. In 2017, she set up the first Reputation Department in a Spanish hospital, consolidating the University Clinic as the Spanish private hospital with the best reputation (MRS 2016-2021), and placing it among the 50 best hospitals in the world and among the 40 best Spanish companies (MERCO 2022). During the pandemic, she created, together with her team, a new way of communicating and established a model of relations with the media that had an economic impact of €832m in the year 2019-2020, and placed the University Clinic among the five most socially-responsible Spanish companies. Over the course of her career, Dolors has worked in all health fields: in public administration, as the Head of Press at the Health Department of the Regional Government of Catalonia; she witnessed the birth and growth of the large hospital groups (USP Hospitales and Grupo Hospitalario Quirón) and experienced, on the front line, the first big merger in the private hospital sector in Spain. She also has experience in consultancy (communication actions) and in multinationals in the sector (pharma, medical technology and hospital groups), like Fresenius. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science from the University of Navarre and a Post-graduate in Corporate Communication from Pompeu Fabra University.