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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

Unitat d'Investigació de Neurotraumatologia i Neurocirurgia (UNINN)

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor, Alejandro Ferré Masó
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding:
Reference: 2009 SGR 495
Duration: 01/01/2010 - 30/04/2014

Advanced Arterial Hypotension Adverse Event Prediction Through a Novel Bayesian Neural Network (AVERT-IT ) Grant No 217049

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 129304
Reference: AVERT-IT-217049
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/07/2011

Implicació dels neuropèptids hipocretina-1, melatonina i cortistatina en les alteracions dels cicles son-vigília dels pacients amb hidrocefàlia normotensiva.

IP: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Collaborators: -
Funding agency: Fundació Institut de Recerca HUVH
Funding: 14507.28
Reference: PRED/IR-HUVH/02/2007
Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011

Mediadors patogènics de l'obesitat: Estudi comparatiu i exploració de nous candidats mitjançant l'anàlisi proteòmic del líquid cefalorraquidi

IP: -
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: Societat Catalana d'Endocrinologia i Nutrició
Funding: 6000
Reference: SCEN_01_2007
Duration: 01/05/2008 - 30/04/2009

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