Dra. Ivón González Valcárcel Neurosurgeon in
Barcelona

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Neurosurgery in CO + T Clinic of the Remei (actuality)
• Deputy in the Pain Clinic at the Sagrada Familia Clinic in Barcelona (2014 - actuality)
• Collaboration in Society ANESTREM Clinic of Pain / Traumatology, in the Clinic Our Lady of the Remei, in Barcelona (2014)
• Adjunct of Neurosurgery at the Society of Neurosurgeons of the 21st Century, at Dexeus Clinic - Delfos Medical Center, Barcelona (2013 - 2014)
• Adjunct of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Pediatrics Sant Joan de Déu de Barcelona (2012 - 2014)
• Collaboration in the Society SUTRAM Clinic of Pain / Traumatology, Clinic of the Pilar Sant Jordi of Barcelona (2011 - 2014)
• Adjunct of Neurosurgery at the Vertebra Pain Clinic - Barcelona Spine and Pain Surgery Center (2011 - 2013)
• Adjunct of Neurosurgery at the Neurosurgical Institute of Barcelona - Sagrada Familia Clinic (2009 - 2010)
• Adjunct of Neurosurgery at the Universitat Sagrat Cor Hospital in Barcelona, ​​accredited by the Spanish Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs (2009 - 2010)
• Specialist in Neurosurgery at the General Surgical Clinical Hospital "General Calixto García Iñiguez", in Havana City, Cuba (2000 - 2009)

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 Teaching posts

• Chief of Physicians residing in the Service of Neurosurgery of the Clinical Surgical Hospital "Calixto García Iñiguez", in Havana City, Cuba (1998 - 1999 and 1999 - 2000)

 Education

• Doctor in Medicine by the Faculty of Medical Sciences "Calixto García" - Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana, with gold diploma - Diploma of Best Graduate of the Faculty, in Havana City, Cuba (1996)
• Specialist in Neurosurgery with Honors Matrícula by the Clinical Surgical Hospital "General Calixto García Iñiguez, in Havana City, Cuba (2000)
• Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice at the World Institute of Pain in Barcelona and Budapest, Hungary (2013)
• European Neurosurgery Examination at the European Association of Neurosurgical Societes in Prague, Czech Republic (2013)
• Second European Masters Degree in Surgical Approaches to the Craneocervical Hinge at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome, Italy (2013 - 2014)
• Additional training in the form of 34 postgraduate courses, 8 publications and 58 scientific events

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 Publications and conferences

• Author of more than 8 scientific articles of the specialty
• More than 60 communications to national and international congresses of the specialty

 Prizes and awards

• Prize "Profesor Ramírez Corría" awarded to the best scientific work of a Young Neurosurgeon presented at the VII Cuban Congress of Neurosurgery: "Craniometric Lines of the Cranio-Spinal Region Posterior Atlanto-Axial Distance", in Holguin City, Cuba (2002)
• Recognition granted by the Chiefs of Research Projects of the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana. Applied Research Project on Epidemiology and Results in Traumatic Injuries of the Cranio-Spinal Union, in Havana City (2003)
• Award for Best Poster Contest, awarded to the best scientific paper presented at the VII Symposium on Vascular Neurosurgery of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgery (FLANC): "Aneurysms of the anterior communicant artery", in Havana City (2006)
• Carlos M. Ramírez Corria Award for Young Neurosurgeons, awarded to the best scientific work of a Young Neurosurgeon, presented at the VIII Cuban Congress of Neurosurgery: "Surgical Variants in the Treatment of Cranio-Spinal Injuries", in Havana City (2006)
• Selected from the 30 Young Neurosurgeons of Latin America invited by the World Federation of Neurosurgery Society to the XII Conference of the Asia-Australian Society of Neurosurgery and the XII Conference of the World Federation of Neurosurgery Society (WFNS) (

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Cuban Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Founder member and President for one year (2008) of the Cuban Section of Surgical Surgery of the Cuban Society of Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Member of the Surgical Section of America (AMECA)
• Member of the Chapter of Brain-Vascular Disease of Cuba (SONECUB)
• Member of the Cuban Society of Maxillofacial Surgery
• Member of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
• Member of the World Institute of Pain (WIP)

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