Juan Abarca Cidón

Juan Abarca Cidón (Madrid, 1971) is a Spanish doctor, lawyer, and businessman. He is president of the HM Hospitales Group and of Profesionales de la Medicina y el Derecho (PROMEDE), an expert witness company. He is an advocate of the private health care model, and part of the political debate on public and private healthcare.

Education and training
He comes from a family in the medical business. He is the son of Juan Abarca Campal, a surgeon, and Carmen Cidón Tamargo, a medical analyst, both founders of the HM Hospitales Group.

Abarca Cidón is a Doctor of Medicine and holds a degree in Law. He studied medicine at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2017 he obtained his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of San Pablo CEU. Between 2002 and 2016 he was General Manager of the HM Hospitales Group. In 2013, he temporarily resigned as CEO because of differences with his brothers regarding the management model. Since 2016 he has been Chairman of the Group.

In 2002, he founded the company Profesionales de la Medicina y el Derecho S.A. (PROMEDE), which carries out health and personal injury assessments for the judiciary. He is the company's president and CEO.

In 2010, he co-founded the Institute for the Development and Integration of Healthcare (IDIS Foundation), which defends the interests of private healthcare and was very active during the Covid-19 pandemic; he was Secretary General until 2015 and has been President since 2019. Among other positions, he is Vice President of the Spanish Association of Health Law (Asociación Española de Derecho Sanitario), a member of the Board of Directors of the newspaper El Español, and has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Ministry of Health (2012–19).

He was a candidate for the doctors' governing body and has a number of supporters on its board.

Scientific Publications in Spanish

 * Abarca Cidón, J. Análisis de la Ley General de Sanidad en la realidad del siglo XXI. Propuestas para un modelo sanitario sostenible, 2017
 * Abarca Cidón, J. El sistema sanitario español. De sus orígenes hasta nuestros días. Esfera de los libros, 2019
 * Abarca Cidón, J. “Big data”, el arma que nos ayuda a doblegar al COVID-19, I+S: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Informática y Salud, nº 142, 20
 * Abarca Cidón, J. y Pérez Iñigo, F. Un modelo de hospital. Ars Médica, 2001 (4 ediciones).
 * Abarca Cidón, J. y Juan-Peláez, F. Actuación profesional en el ámbito hospitalario, Aula Salud Siglo XXI, 2003.

Recognition

 * Reflections Award IX Edition, 2014.
 * Medal of Honour, Health Personality, Revista Redacción Médica, 2014.
 * Spanish Association of Human Resources Directors Award, 2021.
 * Madrileño of the Year Award, 2023.