Dr García-Pavia is the Head of the Inherited Cardiac Diseases and Heart Failure Unit at the Department of Cardiology of Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro in Madrid, Spain. The Inherited cardiac diseases Unit is designed as national (CSUR) and European (ERN) reference unit for inherited cardiovascular diseases . He is also Group Leader at the Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Institute (CNIC). His areas of research include heart failure, amyloidosis and cardiomyopathies. He has published >220 articles in peer-reviewed journals including European Heart Journal, J Am Coll Cardiol, Circulation, Nature Medicine, The Lancet, and The New England Journal of Medicine.