Monica Lalanda
Mónica Lalanda is a Spanish emergency medicine doctor and comics artist. Monica has a special interest in bioethics and professionalism (Master’s degree in Bioethics and Master‘s degree in Medical ethics), and she is an activist- cartoonist for doctors' rights and patients‘ dignity. She is the founder of the Spanish-speaking group of Graphic Medicine: Medicina Gráfica and president of the Spanish Graphic Medicine Society. Mónica is director of the Master’s degree programme in graphic medicine (International University of Andalucia). Mónica is also the author of Conciencia Médica (the comics version of the Spanish doctor's ethics code), co-author of Menopause, a comic treatment (Eisner Award 2021), and the creator of the project of cards, Being a Doctor.