Dr. Cristian de Quintana Schmidt

 Professional experience

• Head of the Neurosurgery Service at the Sanitas CIMA Hospital (2014 - present)
• Specialist in Neurosurgery in Neurosurgery Barcelona (today)
• Professional career at the Hospital de Sant Pau with accreditation of Senior Deputy level (2016 - present)
• Member of the Team of the PPT Unit of the Hospital de Sant Pau (2016 - present)
• Member of the Team of the Functional Unit of Spinal Surgery of the Hospital de Sant Pau (2016 - present)
• Founder of a rehabilitation center specialized in the integral treatment of the spine, Gyrotonic Barcelona Salud (2013 - present)
• Assistant of Neurosurgery at the Dexeus Hospital in Barcelona (2012 - present)
• Deputy of Neurosurgery guards at the General Hospital of Catalonia, Barcelona (2011 - present)
• Deputy of Neurosurgery at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2010 - present)
• Deputy of Neurosurgery at CIMA Hospital, Barcelona (2012 - 2014)
• Deputy of Neurosurgery at the Vallès Clinic, Sabadell (2012 - 2014)
• Deputy of Neurosurgery at the Quirón Clinic, Barcelona (2010 - 2012)

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 Teaching posts

• Professor for the preparation for the MIR exam, at the CTO Academy, Barcelona (2005 - 2007)
• Organizer of the Course on Cerebral Gliomas, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2011)
• Organizer of the Course on Epilepsy, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2012)
• Organizer of the Course on Complementary Cervical Pathology, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2012)
• Organizer of the Midas Rex Hands-On Workshop Course, at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (2013)
• Organizer of the Functional Neurosurgery Course, by the Catalan Society of Nueorocirurgia (2013)

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 Education

• Doctor of Medicine with outstanding qualification. Doctoral thesis: Brain mapping in the awake patient and intraoperative tractography in supratentorial brain tumor resections (2013 - 2016)
• Doctoral thesis with excellent rating: Brain mapping in the awake patient in supratentorial brain tumor resections. Methodology, efficacy and safety of the technique (2013)
• Doctoral thesis: Urgències hospitalàries. Codi pacient politraumàtic (PPT). Work done in the Master in Health Institutions Management (2016)
• Specialist degree in Neurosurgery at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona (2005 - 2010)
• Rotation in Neurology (2 months), ICU (3 months), Traumatology (2 months), Neuroradiology (1 month), Plastic Surgery (1 month) and ENT (1 month), in the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2005 - 2007)
• External rotation at the Ospedale Niguarda Ca'Granda in Milan with Dr. Lo Russo, specialized center in epilepsy surgery (2010)
• External rotation at the Gui de Chauliac Hospital in Montpellier with Dr. Duffau. Brain mapping training in tumors in eloquent areas and surgery with awake patients (2010)
• External rotation at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona, ​​a center specialized in Child Neurosurgery (2008)
• Rotations: Neurology (2 months), ICU (3 months), Traumatology (2 months), Neuroradiology (1 month), Plastic Surgery (1 month) and ORL (1 month), by the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau de Barcelona (2005 - 2007)
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1998 - 2004)
• Research collaborator. Custom IMD. in Supply Chain Integration for Enhanced Fully Customisable Medical Implants, using New Biomaterials and Rapid Manufacturing Technologies, to Enhance the Quality of Life of EU citizens (2007 - 2008)
• Research collaborator. ImpACT-24 pivotal study for Acute Ischemic Stroke (electrical stimulation of the Spheno-Palatine Ganglion) (2008 - 2009)
• Research collaborator. Use of human pluripotent stem cells as vehicles for localized delivery of therapy (2009 - 2013)
• Research collaborator. CLEAR III. Clot Lysis: Evaluating Accelerated Resolution of Intraventricular Homorrage Phase III (2010 - 2015)
• Course "Pla d'emergències a quiròfan", at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Commission for the continued education of the National Health System (2012)
• Course of "Llei de Protecció de dades", at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Commission for the continuing education of the National Health System (2012)
• Clinical research on two cranial fixation systems at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (2012 - present)
• "Basic sanitary economics" course, by the Metges Foundation (Metges de Catalunya). Commission for the continuing training of the National Health System (2013)
• Course "Introduction to Health Management", by the College of Physicians of Barcelona. Commission for the continued education of the National Health System (2014)
• Collaborating researcher MISTIE-III. Minimally Invasive Surgery Plus rt-Pa for Intracerebral Hemorrhage Evacuation (2014 - present)
• Collaborating researcher at GlioCat: Program for the collection of data on gliobastomas operated at the most important Hospitals of Catalonia (2014 - present)
• Course on "Qualitat i seguretat dels pacients", by Unió Consorci Formació. Transmission of the continuous training of the National Health System (2015)
• Research collaborator. Dynamics of the synaptic molecular machinery in cognitive processes and intellectual deficit (FIS Project) (2015 - present)

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 Publications and conferences

• More than 50 communications as first author
• More than 15 scientific publications as first or second author
• Assistance to more than 80 national / international conferences
• Several articles published in national and international press
• Organizer of the Ley-Tolosa (Immunoteràpia) conference, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2011)
• Organizer of the Ley-Tolosa (Complete Vascular Pathology) conference, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2012)
• Organizer of the Ley-Tolosa conference, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2013)
• Organizer of the summer meeting of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2014)
• Organizer of the Ley-Tolosa conference (Complexa vertebral tumor pathology), by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2014)
• Organizer of the Ley-Tolosa conference, by the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2015)

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 Prizes and awards

• Award for the best communication in the National Congress of Neurosurgery of Valencia
• Nominated among the best communications in several conferences
• Dedication of the book "Travessar la Riera", by Julià Guillamon (story of how to overcome a coma)
• Fellowship Fis: collaborating researcher in the project of deep brain stimulation in major depression (2007)

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 Professional membership

• Coordinator of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2012 - present)
• Member of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2007 - present)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC) (2007 - present)
• Vice-secretary of the Catalan Society of Neurosurgery (2011 - 2012)
• Active member of the Neuro-Oncology Group of SENEC (GTNO) (2012 - present)
• Active member of GEINO (2013 - present)

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