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Ma Antonia Poca Pastor

I have a degree in Medicine and Surgery and I’m a specialist in Neurosurgery. I finished the Doctoral Thesis in 1996. Since 1990, I work in the Neurosurgery Department of the Vall Hebron University Hospital. I am currently Clinical Head of Neurosurgery and responsible for the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit. I am also an associate professor of the UAB and coordinator of the Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit (UNINN) of the Vall Hebron Research Institute

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit (UNINN)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Head of Section
Paediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital

Ma Antonia Poca Pastor

Institutions of which they are part

Head of group
Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit (UNINN)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Head of Section
Paediatric Neurosurgery
Children's Hospital and Woman's Hospital

I have a degree in Medicine and Surgery and I’m a specialist in Neurosurgery. I finished the Doctoral Thesis in 1996. Since 1990, I work in the Neurosurgery Department of the Vall Hebron University Hospital. I am currently Clinical Head of Neurosurgery and responsible for the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit. I am also an associate professor of the UAB and coordinator of the Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit (UNINN) of the Vall Hebron Research Institute

Since 2008 I coordinate the Pediatric Neurosurgery Unit (NCP) of the HUVH, considered as a Reference Service (CSUR-NCP Complex) by the Ministry of Health since 2013. My clinical fields of greatest interest are: pediatric neurosurgery, hydrocephalus and other alterations of the CSF dynamics, brain trauma, craniocervical junction and skull base surgery, and neuro-oncology. I am accredited as a Senior University Professor by ANECA and in Advanced Research by AQUCAT. I have participated in advisory committees such as the Advisory Commission for Serious Polytrauma Patient Care (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the Emergency Commission of the Traumatology Area of ​​HUVH. I am a member of the Organizing Committee of the biannual International Symposium on Neuromonitoring and Treatment of Neurocritical Patients since 1994 and of the PICSmartCampus teaching platform (https://smartcampus.neurotrauma.net/), aimed at training in different aspects of neurocritical patients and patients affected by complex alterations of CSF dynamics. I also belong to the European Reference Networks on Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND), ITHACA and CRANIO, in the latter I am responsible in our center and it is directed to craniofacial malformation pathologies. In relation to research, I am part of the multinational European projects CENTER-TBI, KidsBrainIT and BrainI2. My general indicators of the quality of scientific production are as of September 1, 2022: H-Index: 33; Sum of citations: 4998; Articles indexed in PubMed: 140; Book chapters: 55; Direction of doctoral theses: 8; Management of other research projects (master's, degree...): 16; Projects financed through competitive calls: 33 (9 as principal investigator); Health innovation projects: 24; Participation in national and international conferences: 519 (198 as guest speaker).

Projects

Análisis del perfil temporal de los mediadores de respuesta neuroinflamatoria en el espacio extracelular cerebral mediante microdiálisis cerebral de alta resolución en pacientes con un traumatismo craneoencefálico grave

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Marylin Riveiro Vilaboa, Marcelino Bàguena Martínez, Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: Fundación Invest. Médica Mutua Madrileña
Funding: 44736
Reference: FMM-2010-10
Duration: 30/07/2010 - 29/07/2013

Aplicaciones de la microdiálisis de alta resolución a la definición del perfil molecular del edema cerebral postraumático e isquémico. Estudio de la contribución del canal no selectivo NCCa-ATP regulado por el receptor SUR1 en su formación

IP: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Collaborators: Dario Fabian Gándara Sabatini, Marylin Riveiro Vilaboa, Marcelino Bàguena Martínez, Francisco Ramón Martínez Ricarte
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 221006.5
Reference: PI10/00302
Duration: 01/01/2011 - 31/12/2014

Análisis del perfil temporal de los mediadores de respuesta neuroinflamatoria en el espacio extracelular cerebral mediante microdiálisis cerebral de alta resolución en pacientes con un traumatismo craneoencefálico grave

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: Fundación Mapfre Medicina
Funding: 14629
Reference: MAPFRE/2009/01
Duration: 19/04/2010 - 18/04/2011

Análisis de la respuesta metabólica e inflamatoria inducida por los fenómenos de despolarización cortical propagada (CSD y CSD-llike) en pacientes con lesiones cerebrales agudas

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor, Maria Sueiras Gil
Funding agency: Fundación Mapfre Medicina
Funding: 16800
Reference: MAPFRE/05/2008
Duration: 01/01/2009 - 31/12/2009

Related news

The goal is to test a low-cost, easy-to-use and non-invasive monitor, which will serve to control intracranial pressure (PICO) values, which will help to control and treat different acute brain pathologies.

The new tool will improve patient care and allow early detection of complications, as the hospital previously did not have a specific form.

Entre els projectes es troben 12 investigacions on participen investigadors i investigadores de Vall d’Hebron.

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