Curriculum vitae

Currículum vitae abreviado

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.

Bachelor's Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada. June 1981.
PhD Degree. Thesis: "Study of prognostic morphological factors in Anaplastic Astrocytoma and Glioblastoma Multiforme". July 1989.
Visiting Professor. University of Miami (2012).
Visiting Professor. Louisiana University (2013).
Honorary Professor. Burdenko Institute. Moscow (2013).
Visiting Professor. University of Toronto (2019).
Medical Residency (M.I.R.) Tutor in Neurosurgery ("Virgen de las Nieves" Hospital) from February 1992 to June 1998.

Head of the Robotic Spinal Surgery Unit at Vithas Málaga Hospital. 2024-Present.
Head of the Neurosurgery Service at Vithas Málaga and Vithas Xanit International hospitals. 2023-Present.
Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the Carlos Haya Regional University Hospital in Málaga. 1998-Present.
Head of the Cyberknife Radiosurgery Center of Excellence (Genesis Care).
Section Chief of the Neurosurgery Service at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital (Granada) (1997-1998).
President of the Teaching Commission and Head of Studies at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital in Granada. (Years 1993, 1994, and 1995).

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