Dra. Ivón González Valcárcel

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience

 Sub-specialties

• Regenerative Medicine Specialist

 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 specialty scientific articles
• Assistance to multiple communications to national and international congresses of the specialty

 Prizes and awards

• Selected from the 30 young neurosurgeons of Latin America invited by the World Federation of the Society of Neurosurgery to the XII Conference of the Asian-Australian Society of Neurosurgery and the XII Conference of the World Federation of the Society of Neurosurgery (WFNS)
• Recognition granted by the most relevant Research Project Managers of the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana. Applied Research Project on Epidemiology and results in Traumatic Lesions of the Skull-Spinal Union, in Havana City (2003)
• "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 Lesions", in Havana City (2006)
• Best Poster Award Contest, awarded to the best scientific work, presented at the VII Symposium of Vascular Neurosurgery of the Latin American Federation of Neurosurgery (FLANC): "Aneurysms of the Anterior Communicating Artery", in Havana City (2006)
• "Profesor Ramírez Corría" Prize awarded to the best scientific work of a Young Neurosurgeon presented at the VII Cuban Congress of Neurosurgery: "Craniometric Lines of the Posterior Atlanto-Spinal Distance Traumatic-Spinal Region", in Ciudad de Holguin, Cuba (2002)

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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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