Grupo Hospitalario Quirónsalud
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Dr. Jesús Lafuente
Head of Neurosurgery Service Hospital Sagrat Cor
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Grupo Hospitalario Quirónsalud
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Speciality
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Neurosurgery |
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Languages
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English, German, Spanish, Catalan, Italian
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Graduated
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1992 (32 years since graduation)
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About
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Currently Dr Lafuente is the Director of the spine unit at Hospital del Mar
International consultant for the Medtronic company for 4 years, to assist and
support surgeons with the Bryan disc implantation technique (first effective
cervical arthroplasty)
Member of the “Ethics Bylaws” committee at the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies for 8 years In 2008 he was part of the faculty staff of the initial EANS Spine section course Appointed as faculty at the WFNS spine section that he left when he was elected President of the EANS |
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Education
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Medical training at Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona, Spain Neurosurgical residency and internships at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen's Square, London, UK where he also spent one year as Spinal Fellow completing his PhD thesis “Arthroplasty as an alternative to Arthrodesis in the treatment of cervical spondylothic disease”
Best original work at the CSRS (Cervical Spine Research Society) and obtained the prestigious Mario Boni award with his work on “Association of Apolipoprotein E 4 with spondylosis myelopathy” |
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Professional Experience
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Associate Professor in Neurosurgery at Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona
Current reviewer at National Spanish Neurosurgical journal, Acta Neurochirurgica World neurosurgery and the European spine journal
Author of 19 publications, 7 book chapters, 3 editorial letters and 160 personal
presentations More than 45 training courses on Bryan's cervical disc implant in
Europe, Asia and Latin America
Organizer of multiple surgical missions from 2009 to 2019 in several African
countries: Republic of Mali, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania |
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Certifications
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Jesús Lafuente , MD, FRCSEd , FRCS Glas , PhD, is the head of neurosurgery service at the Sagrat Cor University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain. His special interests include skull base neurosurgery, chiari and syringomyelia, spinal deformity, spinal tumors, degenerative disease and to perform surgeries in developing countries. |
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Memberships
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Former President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2017 - 2019)
President of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery
World Federation Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)
European Association Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
Cervical Spine Research Society (CSRS)
Spanish Neurosurgery Society (SENEC)
Neurosurgery Catalan Society (SCNSR)
AOSPINE |
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