Dr. Bartolomé Oliver Abadal

 Professional experience

• More than 35 years of experience
• Co-director of the Oliver & Ayats Institute Unit for Neurosurgery at Teknon Medical Center (1994 - present)
• Co-director of the Chiari & Hypermobility Unit (Unit specialized in Neurosurgery), Teknon Medical Center (current)
• Private practice at the Teknon Medical Center in Barcelona
• Director of the Department of Neurosurgery of the Mutua de Terrassa Hospital (2002 - 2012)
• Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Parc Taulí Hospital (until 2012)
• Head of the Neurosurgery Section of the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona, ​​where he implemented new techniques learned in Sweden, Canada and the USA. (Since 1994)

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 Sub-specialties

• Functional neurosurgery, minimally invasive surgery, transnasal endoscopic surgery, skull base surgery
• Spinal surgery, with application of minimally invasive pioneering techniques
• Microsurgery of spine
• Robotic spine surgery

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 Positions in public associations

• Head of Neurosurgery Section of the Sant Pau Hospital of Barcelona (since 1994)
• Head of Neurosurgery Service of the Mutua de Terrassa Hospital (since April 2002)
• Member of the faculty of Teknon Medical Center since its foundation. Coordinator of Neurosurgery

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 Education

• Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with Outstanding (1976)
• He is a specialist in Neurosurgery by the National Department of Neurosurgery and the Autonomous University of Madrid, supervised by the internationally recognized neurosurgeon Dr. Sixto Obrador (1979)
• Doctor cum laude in Medicine and Surgery (1985)
• International training at: Karolinska Stockholm Hospital, Montreal Neurological Institute in Montreal, Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri, USA, Northwestern University Medical Center in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA

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 Publications and conferences

• 100 Scientific publications and 250 communications to national and international conferences

 Professional membership

• Co-founder of the Institute of Column for the integral treatment of the vertebral column
• Co-founder of the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Beginning of the Epilepsy surgery program, pioneer in the Spanish state and the one with the greatest accumulated experience (1987)
• Co-founder of the Foundation for Functional Neurosurgery and start of the Parkinson's Disease Surgery program at Teknon Medical Center, second in the Spanish state (1995)
• Founder of the Association of Epilepsy Surgery and President of the Association (1996 - 2000). Currently a member of the board of directors
• Coordinator of the working group of Functional Neurosurgery of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (1997 - 1999)
• Member of the board of directors of the Spanish Skull Base Society (1996 - 2000)
• Member of the board of directors of the European Skull Base Society. President Elected (2001). President (2003 - present)

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