Dr. Norberto Ventura Gómez

 Professional experience

• More than 40 years of experience
• Director of his own private practice of Child Traumatology (today)
• Specialist in Child Traumatology at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (today)
• Head of the Traumatology Emergency Section of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona (2000)
• Head of the Column Functional Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital in Barcelona (1996)
• Honorary Clinical Assistant at the Royal Orthopedic Hospital of London (1979)
• Deputy Medical Service of Orthopedics and Traumatology Hospital Sant Joan de Deu de Barcelona (1979)
• Resident Physician of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Service of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital and San Rafael Hospital in Barcelona (1974 - 1979)

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 Sub-specialties

• Childhood scoliosis
• Pathology of the pediatric spine
• Spinal deformities in children and adolescents

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 Teaching posts

• Teacher at the School of Nursing Graduates of the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital UB Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona (1991)
• Professor at the Universitat Central de Barcelona, ​​Unitat Docent de Bellvitge, Doctorate Program of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology. Curs de principis bàsics in Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia Infantil. Responsible for the following subjects: Malformations of the spine, Lameness in the child: Coxitis and Perthes, Pain in the child's spine, Orthopedic problems in peripheral neuropathies and myopathies, Treatment of scoliosis and kyphosis (1992)
• Teacher in the Master in Child Orthopedic Surgery. Postgraduate course at the Central University of Barcelona. Responsible for the subjects: Alterations of the spine in the child - Kyphosis and scoliosis, and orthopedic aspects of neuropathies and myopathies (1992 - 1994)
• Professor in the Master in Vertebral Column Surgery at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Monthly theoretical classes and Teaching in surgical interventions (monthly sessions) (1994 - 1995)
• Teacher in l "Escoliosi, Teaching Section of the Societat Catalana de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia (SCCOT) (1994)
• Teacher at "Cervical Spine Injuries in Children", III International Seminar on Children Fractures, Madrid (1999)
• Teacher at "Spine Problems in Children", The 3th Spine Training Course. International Middle East Spine Meeting. Orthopaedic Department of Alexandria University, in Alexandria, Egypt (1999)
• Teacher in multiple courses, congresses and speeches of the specialty, on topics of spine and scoliosis in children
• Director of the Pre-Course of the Spanish Spine Society (GEER): "Surgical treatment using vertebral fusion techniques of congenital and vertebral and neuromuscular scoliosis", in Santiago de Compostela (2010)
• Collaborator as professor in the course "Fellowship in Spine Deformity", at the University of Barcelona (2000 - 2015)

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 Education

• Graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1973)
• Specialist in Traumatology and Orthopedics by the University of Barcelona (1978)
• Doctor Cum Laude in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Barcelona (1989)

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 Publications and conferences

• More than 36 publications in scientific journals of the specialty
• More than a hundred oral communications published in international congresses of the specialty
• More than 140 oral communications in national specialty congresses
• Presentation of more than 27 posters of the specialty in congresses and conferences
• Moderator of the VI Session (Etiology / Genetics / Innivative Methods / Kyphosis / Miscellaneous, Scoliosis Research Society (SRS), at the 45th Annual Meeting, September, in Kyoto, Japan (2010)
• Organizer of the 2008 SRS (The Scoliosis Research Society) Traveling Fellows
• Organizer of the 2011 SRS (The Scoliosis Research Society) Traveling Fellows

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 Prizes and awards

• Scholarship by the General Medical Council as Honorary Clinical Assitant, Royal National Orthopedic Hospital and Stammor of London (1979)
• Scholarship by the Generalitat de Catalunya, by the Interdepartmental Commission for Research and Technological Innovation (CIRIT), by the Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School (1983)
• Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Barcelona, ​​Clinical Section (1989)
• National Research Award of the Spanish Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SECOT). International Congress Hispanic - Argentine Congress of Orthopedics and Traumatology (AAOT) and XXV Congress of the Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SECOT), in Barcelona. Title: "Experimental Scoliosis, Contribution to the Diagnosis and Early Treatment of Childhood Scoliosis of the Progressive Type" (1988)
• Prize for the best communication IV International Symposium of Advances in Traumatology and Orthopedics. Reconstruction of large skeletal segments. University Hospital San Carlos, University of Madrid, title: "Reconstruction through bone of the Bank in the tumor surgery of the skeleton" (1991)
• Premi to the best communication in the 6th Congrès of the Societat Catalana de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia (SCCOT), in Reus. Title: "idiopathic contracture in the extension of coll in the nen.A propòsit of three cases" (1993)

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 Professional membership

• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish Society for the Study of the Raquis (GEER) (2013 - 2015)
• Member of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)
• Member of the Spanish Society for the Study of the Raquis (GEER)
• Member of the European Spinal Column Society (EUROSPINE). The Spine Society of Europe
• Member of the Spanish Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SECOT)
• Member of the European Society of Pediatric Orthopedics (EPOS). European Pediatric Orthopedic Society
• Member of the Societe International de Chirugie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie (SICOT)

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