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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.

Projects

Red española de esclerosis múltiple (perteneciente a la Red Cien C03/06: Desarrollo de marcadores biológicos y clínicos de la respuesta al tratamiento con Interferón beta en Esclerosis Múltiple.

IP: Alex Rovira Cañellas
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 714
Reference: PI051254
Duration: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2006

Análisis de la anisotropía por imagen del tensor de difusión en resonancia magnética. Desarrollo metodológico orientado a su aplicación clínica.

IP: -
Collaborators: Fco. Javier Aymerich Martínez, Alex Rovira Cañellas
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 30705
Reference: PI021008
Duration: 06/11/2002 - 31/12/2005

Papel de las metaloproteinasas en el desarrollo de edema en la fase aguda de la hemorragia intracerebral y en los fenomenos de reparacion y remodelacion posteriores.

IP: José Alvarez Sabin
Collaborators: Joan Montaner Villalonga, Alex Rovira Cañellas, Carlos Molina Cateriano
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 30741.77
Reference: 01/1389
Duration: 17/07/2001 - 31/12/2003

Paper de l´homeostasi de l´aigua cerebral en el desenvolupament de lesions neurològiques associades al trasplantament hepàtic

IP: -
Collaborators: Lluis Castells Fusté, Alex Rovira Cañellas
Funding agency: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Funding: 36583.31
Reference: TV3/002410
Duration: 01/01/2001 - 31/12/2002

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