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Rubén Moreno Palanques (Castellón, Spain, 23 July 1958) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party (PP).
Moreno qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Valencia and then moved to the United States, where he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher in Molecular biology at the University of Kansas in the Department of Pathology and Oncology. There, he was director of the Laboratory of Genetic diseases. After 7 years in the US, he returned to Spain, where he served as Director of Molecular Oncology at the University Clinic of Navarre. He later served as Director of the Valencian Health Service and under-secretary of health for the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian regional administration.
At the 2011 general election, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province. After being considered for the post of Health Minister by Mariano Rajoy, he was named health minister for the Generalitat Valenciana. He held this post until June 2015, when the PP administration in Valencia region was replaced by a PSOE-led coalition. For the 2015 general election Moreno was placed third on the PP list and was re-elected as one of the five PP deputies in Valencia Province.