Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Córdoba

Degrees: Graduated in Medicine in 1999 in University of Granada (Spain), Paediatric Specialization in 2004 in University Hospital Reina Sofia (HURS)  in Córdoba, PhD in Medicine in 2004 in University of Córdoba (UCO) (Spain).

In 2008, she designed a new Pediatric Metabolism and Research Unit within the Pediatric Clinical Management Unit of the Reina Sofía University Hospital in Córdoba, Spain, and is currently the coordinator of this unit, promoting high-level pediatric research in the area of ​​child nutrition, and one of the reference units in the care of children with inborn errors of metabolism. She is currently a Professor of Pediatrics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Córdoba and a specialist physician in the area of ​​Pediatrics at the Reina Sofía University Hospital.

Since 2001 he has specialized in a line of research related to hormonal and metabolic alterations in children with nutritional pathologies, and coordinates a consolidated group at the Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba (IMIBIC); the GC23 group of Children's Metabolism. Since 2009, she has coordinated the Andalusian Research Plan (PAI) CTS-369 group. She belongs to various scientific societies and has been a member of the Maternal, Child and Development Health Network (SAMID) and the CIBERER of the Carlos III Institute; since 2016, she has been the coordinator of the CB15/00131 group at the CIBEROBN, ICI, in Spain.

Professor Gil-Campos has obtained funding from public calls, agreements with technological development companies, infant food research companies, and national and international clinical trials of infant food innovation to conduct research projects. In recent years, she has participated in an international clinical trial (rHLAMAN) with the Spanish node for the enzyme replacement treatment of an ultra-rare-frequency inborn error of metabolism, alpha mannosidosis.

Prof. Gil-Campos has three recognized research sexenios and has directed 9 doctoral theses. Until 2024, she has more than 200 articles indexed with an impact index, exceeding more than 80 in quartile 1, and 17 in decile 1, with more than 3000 citations received, and an H index of 28. She has received several national and international awards in research projects related to children's nutrition.