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Alex Rovira Cañellas

I am a full time diagnostic neuroradiologist, who gained his MD in 1983 at the Autonomos University of Barcelona. After formal training in Radiology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona), I undertook a visiting fellowship at Shands Hospital (Gainesville, University of Florida) in 1989. In 1990, I became staff neuroradiologist at the Section of Neuroradiology at Vall d’Hebron Hospital. At present I am Director of the Section of Neuroradiology at University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona (Spain).

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Neuroradiology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Radiodiagnòstic (IDI)
General Hospital
Cap de Secció
Radiodiagnòstic (IDI)
Cross-departmental services

Alex Rovira Cañellas

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Neuroradiology
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Radiodiagnòstic (IDI)
General Hospital
Cap de Secció
Radiodiagnòstic (IDI)
Cross-departmental services

I am a full time diagnostic neuroradiologist, who gained his MD in 1983 at the Autonomos University of Barcelona. After formal training in Radiology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona), I undertook a visiting fellowship at Shands Hospital (Gainesville, University of Florida) in 1989. In 1990, I became staff neuroradiologist at the Section of Neuroradiology at Vall d’Hebron Hospital. At present I am Director of the Section of Neuroradiology at University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona (Spain).

I am specialized in diagnostic neuroradiology, and head and neck radiology, with a particular interest in demyelinating diseases, stroke, neuro-oncology, and neurodegenerative disorders.
I am currently steering committee member of MAGNIMS (European Multicenter Collaborative Research Network on MRI in MS).
I am on the editorial boards of the Neurology and Neuroradiology, and served as President of the European Society of Neuroradiology (2016-2018), as President of the Spanish Society of Neuroradiology (2009-2015), on the Lucien Appel Prize Award Jury of the European Society of Neuroradiology (2006-2012), as Editor of Neuroradiology in the Spanish Journal of Radiology, as Director of the 10th and 11th Cycles of the Pierre Lasjaunias European Course of Neuroradiology (2008-2012), and as Chairman of MAGNIMS (2012-2018). I am an author/co-author of 520 articles (Scopus; total citations 14,818; h-index: 83), 30 book chapters or monographs, and more than 400 invited conference presentations. I am also the editor of three books: “Essential Radiology” (Panamericana 2019), “Clinical Neuroradiology” (Springer 2019), and “Controversies in Radiology” (Aran 2020). I have been invited as Visiting Professor at University of Toronto, at McGill University (Montreal), at Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology (UCL, London), at Ottawa University, and at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). I am an honorary member of the Paulista Society of Radiology and the Polish Society of Radiology.

Research lines

Research in Cerebrovascular Diseases

This research line is mainly focused on the assessment of intracranial aneurysms. This includes the role of several imaging techniques to predict the risk of future rupture. Other interests are to associate imaging changes with the pathophysiological mechanisms that underlie aneurysm formation and to optimize the imaging protocol used in clinical practice.

IP: Alex Rovira Cañellas

Application of magnetic resonance imaging techniques to the study of migraine

The goal would be to assess the feasibility and the impact of new magnetic resonance sequences and image analysis tools in the characterization of patients with migraine.

IP: Deborah Pareto Onghena, Alex Rovira Cañellas

Application of magnetic resonance imaging techniques to the study of diabetes

The goal would be to assess the impact of diabetes on brain morphology, integrity and function through the advanced analysis of magnetic resonance images.

IP: Deborah Pareto Onghena, Alex Rovira Cañellas

Application of MR techniques in the assessment of psychiatric disorders

The purpose is to investigate the effects of psychiatric disorders on brain structure, integrity and function.

IP: Alex Rovira Cañellas

Projects

Iron rims around multiple sclerosis lesions. A new MRI marker of disease activity and progression?

IP: Alex Rovira Cañellas
Collaborators: Margareta Anna Clarke, Miriam Izquierdo Sans
Funding agency: ECTRIMS
Funding: 55000
Reference: ECTRIMS-MAGNIMS/2018/CLARKE
Duration: 01/10/2018 - 30/09/2019

Automatic detection and analysis of new lesions in serial MR imaging of multiple sclerosis patients

IP: Alex Rovira Cañellas
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: ECTRIMS
Funding: 50000
Reference: ECTRIMS-MAGNIMS_2013-CABEZAS
Duration: 01/05/2014 - 30/04/2015

Diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in pediatric multiple sclerosis and related demyelinating disorders

IP: Mar Tintore Subirana
Collaborators: Cristina Auger Acosta, Alex Rovira Cañellas, Mireia Del Toro Riera, Angela Vidal Jordana, Luciana Midaglia Fernandez, Georgina Arrambide García
Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Funding: 100000
Reference: 20141831
Duration: 22/05/2015 - 22/11/2018

Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple

IP: Xavier Montalban Gairín
Collaborators: Susana Otero Romero, Carlos Nos Llopis, Sunny Malhotra Sareen, Jaume Sastre Garriga, Jordi Rio Izquierdo, Fco. Javier Aymerich Martínez, Ingrid Galán Cartaña, Rosalia Horno Ocaña, Manuel Comabella Lopez, Carmen Tur Gomez, Cristina Auger Acosta, Herena Eixarch Ahufinger, Montserrat Moreno Sánchez, Alex Rovira Cañellas, Mar Tintore Subirana, M Jesus Arevalo Navines, Carmen Espejo Ruiz, Angela Vidal Jordana, Joaquin Castillo Justribo, Mireia Castillo Juarez, Nicolás Miguel Fissolo
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 198090
Reference: RD12/0032/0017
Duration: 01/01/2013 - 31/12/2016

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