Carlos Varela Ferro

Innovation Committee, Teaching Committee, Coordination, Coordinators, Social Area Directorate, Directorates of Personal Care Services, Management Team

Director of Transversal Operations and the Social Area

With a solid academic background in physiotherapy and healthcare management, he has complemented his specialization with studies in innovation, management and digital transformation, eHealth and sports management. He is a physiotherapist from the Ramon Llull-Blanquerna University (2004-2007), with an Executive Master in Management of Healthcare Organizations from ESADE (2023-2024) and an Executive Master in Healthcare Organizations Leadership Program from the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business ( 2024). He also has a Master's Degree in Innovation Management and Digital Transformation from the UOC (2021-2022), a Master's in eHealth (2020-2021) and an MBA in Sport Management from Pompeu Fabra University (2014-2015). In addition, he is an International Boccia Classifier accredited by BISFed (2022), a sports technician specialized in Paralympic sport by the FEDPC, and a physiotherapist specialized in paediatrics, aquatic therapy and support products.

His professional experience is currently focused, since September 2024, on the position of director of Transversal Operations and Social Area at the Aspace Catalunya Foundation.

He is the founder and CEO of a startup focused on the transversal management of health clinics and also responsible for training at the FEDPC. Previously, he served as director of the Peripheral Neurorehabilitation Services of Numància and Marc Aureli (2018-2022) and as an associate professor at Fundesplai, working with students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). He was responsible for the Paralympic sports section of Boccia at the FEDPC (2009-2020) and participated as a selector in the Paralympic Games in London 2012 and Rio 2016. He has also been a director in the organization of 3 European championships and 2 Paralympic sports world championships, accredited by BISFed and IFCPF.

Committed to quality care, he has participated in international Olympic and Paralympic sports campuses and coordinated demonstrative projects of integrated social and health care.

Carlos Varela Ferro

We innovate and integrate care to create a quality of life model with community impact.