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Dr. Miguel Ángel Arráez

Specialist in Neurosurgery and Doctor in Medicine and Surgery
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Instituto Arráez

+1000 Successful interventions

40 years in the field of Neurosurgery

National and international pioneer

He has been a national and international pioneer in techniques such as fluorescence-guided resection of brain tumors.

Career

His professional career includes positions of responsibility in the most important national and international neurosurgical societies, the organization of congresses and scientific meetings, as well as participation in multiple events as a speaker and guest professor abroad. He is a member of the editorial committee of more than 10 national and international Neurosurgery journals.

Dr. Miguel Ángel Arráez has accumulated more than 40 years of professional practice in the field of Neurosurgery.

After completing his residency training (MIR), he underwent several training periods in Europe and the USA, primarily aimed at perfecting sophisticated surgical techniques, including minimally invasive surgery procedures, applicable to fields as diverse as spinal pathology and certain tumors of the nervous system.

Degrees and honors

  • Doctor of Medicine and Surgery.
  • Full Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Eastern Andalusia.
  • Corresponding Member of the National Royal Academy of Medicine.
  • Member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery.
  • Member of the Eurasian Academy of Neurosurgery.
  • Honorary Member of the South East Society of European Neurological Surgeons.
  • Honorary Member of the Serbian Society of Neurosurgery.
  • President of the World Academy of Neurosurgical Surgery (WANS) for the 2022-2024 period, having previously served as its vice president.
  • President of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (2016-2018) and previously Secretary (2006-2010).
  • President of the Spanish Skull Base Society (2002-2004).
  • Coordinator of committee activities at the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) (2013-2017).
  • President of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Meeting of the Society of University Neurosurgeons (2013).
  • Currently, he is the Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the Carlos Haya Regional University Hospital in Málaga and at the Vithas Málaga and Vithas Xanit International Hospitals.
  • "San Francisco de Asís" Foundation Award, granted by the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery, for his research on brain tumors.
  • Andalusian Society of Neurosurgery Award, received on two occasions.
  • "Skull Base Surgery" Award from the Spanish Society of Maxillofacial Surgery.
  • Malta Cross Award to the Neurosurgery Service of the Carlos Haya Regional University Hospital.