Dr Manel Mata-Cases is a Family and Community Medicine specialist and has been working as a general practitioner in “La Mina” Primary Health Care Centre; Barcelona (Spain) since 1984.

PhD in Translational Medicine. Doctoral thesis: “Evolution of type 2 Diabetes care in Catalonia 1993-2013” (University of Barcelona, 2017).

Dr Mata was one of the founders of the GEDAPS “Primary Care Diabetes Study Group” in 1992 of which He was chairman from 2009 to 2013. Moreover, He is part time researcher of the Barcelona Ciutat Research Support Unit of the Foundation University Institute for Primary Health Care Research Jordi Gol i Gurina (IDIAPJGol) and the Centre of Investigation of Diabetes and Associated Metabolic Diseases (CIBERDEM), Barcelona, Spain where He is member of the Primary Care Research Group on Diabetes (DAP.cat group).

Since 1993, He has participated in several guidelines and consensus documents on the management and treatment of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) in Spain. He is one of the authors of the Spanish “2014, 2017 and 2020 RedGDPS algorithm for the Management of T2DM in Primary Care”, the “2012 Institut Català de la Salut T2DM Guidelines” the 2013 and 2017 “Catalonian Public Health Service Harmonization of T2DM Guidelines”, the 2018 Spanish Diabetes Society T2DM Guidelines, and the 2021 and 2022 PCDE Position Statement on the pharmacological management of Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care.

His main areas of research are epidemiology, pharmacological treatment, therapeutic inertia, health costs, and trends in the T2DM quality of care, through analysis of the SIDIAP population database in Catalonia (Spain).

He has written more than one hundred original articles on diabetes in national and international peer reviewed journals, has been reviewer of manuscripts for several scientific journals, and lectures widely on type 2 diabetes related topics, mainly in terms of its pharmacological treatment, therapeutic inertia, and costs.

Primary Care Diabetes is the official journal of Primary Care Diabetes Europe. The journal publishes original research articles and high-quality reviews in the fields of clinical care, diabetes education, nutrition, health services, psychosocial research and epidemiology and other areas as far as is relevant for diabetology in a primary-care setting. The purpose of the journal is to encourage interdisciplinary research and discussion between all those who are involved in primary diabetes care on an international level with the final aim of improving the care for people with diabetes mellitus within the primary-care setting. During 2022, 12 reviews and 128 original research papers were published. In this lecture we are going to review the 5 most relevant.

Learning outcomes

– To highlight the most relevant papers of the PCD Journal in 2022

– Increase the knowledge and spread of the scientific value of the journal

Learning objectives

– Review the best five papers of last year in PCD journal

– Discuss the contributions of each paper to the knowledge on each topic.