Dr. Francisco Villarejo Ortega

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• He works in 1974 as a senior house officer at Newcastle General Hospital (United Kingdom) with Professor Hankinson and later with Dr. Raimondi at the Children's Hospital in Chicago (United States) and Dr. Hoffman at the Hospital for Sick Children from Toronto (Canada).
• From 1977 to 1988 he is head of the Section of Neurosurgery at La Paz Hospital in Madrid.
• From 1988 until now, he is head of the Neurosurgery Service of the Hospital del Niño Jesús in Madrid.

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 Sub-specialties

• Specialist in skull and spine surgery.

 Teaching posts

• He is Honorary Professor of the Chair of Pediatrics of the Autonomous University of Madrid.

 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid, in 1970.
• Specialist in Neurosurgery (1975), he reads his doctoral thesis, Cum Laude, at the University of Valladolid. Its title is "Post-injection sciatic paralysis. Clinical and experimental study "(1986).
• He made the internship in the Department of Neurosurgery of the Institute of Oncology and Residency in the Sanitary City of La Paz, with Professor Obrador, where he was later appointed Deputy Medical Neurosurgery in 1974.

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 Publications and conferences

• He has presented more than 600 communications in National and International Congresses.
• He has organized 40 International Congresses, including the XIV World Congress of Pediatric Neurosurgery and the I International Congress on Surgery of Epilepsy.
• He has published more than 300 works in English-language journals (Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Surgical Neurology, Epilepsy, Spine, Child's Nervous System, Epileptic Disorders, Neurology) and in Spanish specialty journals (Neurology, Neurosurgery).
• He has collaborated on ten books with fundamental chapters on the topic of epilepsy.
• He is the author of seven books in his specialty.

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 Prizes and awards

• Pedro Mata Award 2008, Sixto Obrados Alcalde award year 1981.
• Medical News Award for the best original work for "Astrocytomas of cerebellum".
• Caja Madrid Award for work on Continuing Education in Health Sciences Antena de Oro de Ciencia 2009.
• Finalist to Doctor of the Year in 1986 (2nd place).

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 Professional membership

• He is a member of the most important national and international societies of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Pediatrics, including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the American Epilepsy Society.
• He has been president of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC), vice president of the Spanish League against Epilepsy (LECE), secretary of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery (SENEP) and the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN).