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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

Ma Antonia Poca Pastor

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 de Recerca en Neurotraumatologia i Neurocirurgia

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Funding:
Reference: 2005SGR 00411
Duration: 01/01/2006 - 31/12/2008

Aplicaciones de la microdialisis cerebral a la monitorización de los perfiles metabólicos de las contusiones cerebrales y de la penumbra en los traumatismos craneoencefálicos.

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ramon Monforte Alemany, Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Funding: 85560
Reference: PI030153
Duration: 01/01/2003 - 28/11/2006

Rapid stroke marker detection via immunosensors utilising labeless electrochemical and resonant mass detection Research and Technological Development Projects FP5 Grant No 02583

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 98903
Reference: QLK6-CT-2002-02583
Duration: 01/01/2003 - 31/12/2005

Brain Monitoring with Information Technology: An open, Internet based Transnational collaborative infrastructure for supporting assesment of health care techonologies in brain-injured patients: Developing and Testing an Improved Coordination Structure (Brain-IT) Grant No 01160 Specific Research and Training Programme, STREP, FP5 BRAIN IT

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Collaborators: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Funding agency: EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Funding: 95819
Reference: QLG3-CT-2002-01160
Duration: 01/10/2002 - 30/09/2005

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

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