Javier Loureiro Diaz
Senior Clinical Exercise Physiologist at the Heart Hospital
Hamad Medical Corporation
Javier is a Senior Clinical Exercise Physiologist at the Heart Hospital (Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha – Qatar) with 15 years of international experience in cardiovascular rehabilitation.
He has worked in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and Qatar. His professional focus lies in understanding the role of exercise in preventing, treating and rehabilitating cardiovascular disease.
Currently he is pursuing a Ph.D. affiliated with the University of A Coruna (Spain).
He is researching the cross-cultural adaptation of a perceived effort scale to Arabic in cardiovascular disease patients.
This involves assessing how perceived effort correlates with objective cardiovascular markers of exercise intensity, including gold standard oxygen consumption.
Simultaneously, he is exploring how quantifying and modeling exercise training volume, based on subjective patient effort, correlates with peak exercise capacity improvement and the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events in cardiovascular disease patients.
