Alba Vall Vargas is a Clinical Nurse, PhD, specialized in cardiovascular and thromboembolic health at Fundació Althaia (Manresa), where she has worked since 1987. After a long career in nursing management (Head of Nursing Unit, 1993–2015), she returned to clinical practice in 2015 as a nurse case manager for patients with thrombotic risk and anticoagulant treatment, focusing on therapeutic education and patient activation for self-care. In 2016 she led the implementation of a nurse-led self-management program for anticoagulant treatment, now a reference model at Althaia. She also serves as hemovigilance nurse and coordinator of the Hemovigilance Commission.
She holds a PhD in Comprehensive Care and Health Services (Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya, 2026), a Master in Nutrition and Health (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2019) and a Master in Nursing Science Research (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2012). Her research focuses on patient activation for self-care, self-management programs and health outcomes in chronic disease, and she has published in Medicina Clínica, Supportive Care in Cancer, Enfermería Clínica and the Journal of Vascular Nursing. She is a member of the M3O Research Group (UVIC-UCC), a member of the Research Ethics Committee (CEIm) of IRIS-CC, and a tutor and reviewer of nursing final degree projects at Fundació Universitària del Bages.