Manuel Ruiz-Adame, M.D./Ph.D.

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

University of Granada (Spain); Visiting Research Fellow Trinity College (Dublin)

ORCID URL: 

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0899-6087

Areas of Interest: 

health economics, Alzheimer's disease, early onset dementias, social costs

Biography & Research: 

Manuel Ruiz-Adame Reina graduated in Psychology and Economics from the University of Seville (Spain), has completed two Masters and a Ph.D. in Economics for the University of Granada. He holds a Master in Gerontology from the University of Salamanca, certificate in Business Management from the San Telmo International Institute (Seville) and a Master in Health Economics by the University of Málaga (where he received the award to the best “End of Master Project”). His Ph.D. was voted second best doctoral thesis of the Andalusian Studies Centre (2018), a foundation that depends on the Andalusian Government. Manuel has been professor of the Master in Gerontology from the University of Seville. In the field of Economic he has been interim substitute professor at the Dpt. of Applied Economics III (University of Seville), and is also a lecturer at the University of Granada’s Department of Applied Economics (Campus of Melilla). Current work in Health Economics largely focus on social cost of different diseases linked with aging and degenerative processes (e.g., dementia). Specifically, his current research incl;ude: I) Social cost of early onset dementias; II) Influence of personality factors of caregivers, risk of burn out and economic consequences, and; III) Covid and cost for the public health service. Beyond health, his work as an economist is also interested in applied topics such as Law or Crime. Additionally, Manuel is participating in two European projects: one is called “Smart Technologies for personalised Nutrition and Consumer Engagement”, this project is about the development of a nutritional tool to suit nutritional advices to different profiles of people. And second relates to Law and Economics on a project is called: “Analysis and empirical study of the impact of the Law 23/2014 on mutual recognition in the Spanish judicial system”. Currently Manuel is a visiting researcher within Dominic Trépel research group in Trinity College (Dublin).