Curriculum Vitae

Short CV

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery.
Full Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Eastern Andalusia.
Corresponding Member of the Royal National 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 Neurosurgery (WANS) for the period 2022-2024, having previously been 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).

Co-ordinator of Committee Activities at the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) (2013-2017).
Chair of the Organising Committee for the Annual Meeting of the Society of University Neurosurgeons (2013).
He is currently Head of the Neurosurgery Department at the Carlos Haya University Regional Hospital in Málaga and at Vithas Málaga and Vithas Xanit International Hospitals.
«San Francisco de Asís» Foundation Prize, awarded by the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery, for research into brain tumours.
Andalusian Neurosurgery Society Award, obtained on two occasions.
«Skull Base Surgery» Award from the Spanish Society of Maxillofacial Surgery.
Cruz de Malta Award for the Neurosurgery Department of the Regional University Hospital Carlos Haya.

Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada. June 1981.
Doctorate. Thesis “Study of prognostic morphological factors in Anaplastic Astrocytoma and Glioblastoma Multiforme”. July 1989.
Visiting Professor. University of Miami (2012).
Visiting Professor. University of Louisiana (2013).
Honorary Professor. Burdenko Institute. Moscow (2013).
Visiting Professor. University of Toronto (2019).
Training Tutor in Neurosurgery (H. “Virgen de las Nieves” Hospital) from February 1992 to June 1998.

Head of the Robotic Spinal Surgery Unit, Vithas Málaga Hospital. 2024-Present.
Head of the Neurosurgery Department at Vithas Málaga and Vithas Xanit Internacional Hospitals. 2023-Present.
Head of the Neurosurgery Department at the Regional University Hospital Carlos Haya in Malaga. 1998-Present.
Head of the Cyberknife Radiosurgery Centre of Excellence (Genesis Care).
Head of Section, Neurosurgery Department, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital (Granada) (1997-1998).
Chairman 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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