POSITION TITLE
Director, Movement Disorders Unit – Neurology Department, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona
Full Professor of Neurology – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Professional Preparation
Certified Board in Clinical Neurology (Catalan Institute of Health, MIR)
Professional Experience:
Dates
1982-1985 Training in Neurology, Sant Pau Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
1986-1987 Neurology Department, Clinic Hospital- University of Barcelona
1988-1989 Neurology Department, Trias i Pujol Hospital – Autonomous University of
Barcelona
1989- 2007 Neurology Department, Sant Pau Hospital – Autonomous University of
Barcelona
1997- present Chair, Functional Neurosurgery Program for Parkinson’s Disease
1999-2003 Section Chief, Movement Disorders Unit – Sant Pau Hospital
2003-present Director, Movement Disorders Unit – Sant Pau Hospital
2008-2020 Director, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau Hospital, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2020-present Director, Clinical School of Neuropsychology and Language Pathology
Academic Ranks
1999–present Chairman & Professor of the ‘Master Degree in Neuropsychological Diagnosis and Rehabilitation’ – Universitat autònoma de Barcelona
Associate Professor of Neurology
2008–2019 Autonomous University of Barcelona
Research Professor
2014-2017 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia)
Full Professor of Neurology
2020 –present Autonomous University of Barcelona
Vice-Dean Faculty of Medicine
2018- present
Positions in Professional Societies
1999- 2000 Chair of the Movement Disorders Section of the Spanish Society of Neurology
2000- 2002 Member of the Educational Committee of the Spanish Neurological Society
2005- 2019 Member of the International Movement Disorders Society Task Force for
Developing Rating Scales in Parkinson’s Disease (Subcomitee for Cognitive
Evaluation)
2007- 2009 Member of the Education in Europe Working Group (EiEWG) – Movement Disorders Society
2007-2011 Member of the Executive Committee of the Movement Disorders Society European Section (MDS-ES)
2010-2012 Member of the Award Committee of the Movement Disorders Society
Member of the International Movement Disorders Society Task Force for
Mild cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease
2019-present Officer and Treasurer Elect of the MDS-ES
2019 – present Member of the Executive Committee of the European Huntington Disease
Network (EHDN)
2018- present Chairman of the ‘Cognitive Phenotype Working Group’ of the EHDN
Scientific and Academic Committees:
2012-2014 Scientific Advisor of the Michael J. Fox Fundation for Parkinson’s Disease
2012-present European Huntington`s Disease Network, Spanish Coordinator
2002-present Member of the Spanish National Biomedicine Granting Program (ANEP)
Main Awards:
2009 ‘Corresponding Academic’, Royal Academy of Medicine of Murcia (Spain)
2011 Scientific Prize of the Year 2010, Spanish Neurological Society
2020 Board of Trustees of the Biomedical Research Institute (Sant Pau Hospital)
2021 Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (FEAN)
Journal Editor
Movement Disorders Editor, Revista de Neurología (Spain)
Frontiers in Movement Disorders, Associate Editor
Ad hoc Reviewer of the following Journals:
PLOS One, Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, Brain, Neurology; Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Drugs & Aging, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, Progress in Neurobiology, Psychiatry Research, Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicines, Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, Neuropsychologia, Movement Disorders, Clinical Pharmacology, Journal of the International Society of Neuropsychology, European Journal of Neurology, European Neurology, Revista de Neurología, Journal of Neurology, Journal of Neuroimaging, Neurología, Annals of Neurology, and others.
Current grant support:
2007- Present Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases
(CIBERNED) Research Program in Parkinson’s Disease
2018 – 2021 Spanish Ministry of Science ant Technology
2009 – 2021 Support to Research Groups Established in Catalonia (SGR)
2019- 2023 Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA)
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