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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

Instituciones de las que forman parte

Jefe de grupo
Unidad de Investigación en Neurotraumatología y Neurocirugía (UNINN)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Jefe de Sección
Neurocirugía Pediátrica
Hospital Infantil i Hospital de la Mujer

Ma Antonia Poca Pastor

Instituciones de las que forman parte

Jefe de grupo
Unidad de Investigación en Neurotraumatología y Neurocirugía (UNINN)
Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca
Jefe de Sección
Neurocirugía Pediátrica
Hospital Infantil i Hospital de la Mujer

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).

Proyectos

Repercusión de la "dilatación" beniga de los espacios subaracnoideos en el desarrollo psicomotor y cognitivo de los niños

IP: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Colaboradores: Gustau Perez Prat , Carlos Jacas Escarcellé, Noelia Montoya Clemente, Jannet Paola Cano Granda
Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Financiación: 81070
Referencia: PI18/00468
Duración: 01/01/2019 - 31/12/2022

Anemia or Blood Transfusion: A Clinical Dilemma in patient with traumatic brain injury

IP: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor
Colaboradores: Dario Fabian Gándara Sabatini, Marylin Riveiro Vilaboa, Joan Sahuquillo Barris, Anna Rey Pérez, Miriam de Nadal Clanchet, Verónica Pons Escoll
Entidad financiadora: Fundació La Marató de TV3
Financiación: 191336.25
Referencia: 20172430
Duración: 27/06/2018 - 31/12/2021

Grups d'Investigació de Neurotraumatologia i Neurocirurgia

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Colaboradores: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor, Miriam de Nadal Clanchet
Entidad financiadora: Agència Gestió Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
Financiación: 0.01
Referencia: 2017SGR00975
Duración: 01/01/2017 - 31/12/2020

NEURON9-FP-050: Paediatric Brain Monitoring with Information Technology (KidsBrainIT): Using Information Technology (IT) Innovations to Improve Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury Intensive Care Management, Outcome, and Patient Safety

IP: Joan Sahuquillo Barris
Colaboradores: Ma Antonia Poca Pastor, Joan Balcells Ramirez
Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Financiación: 80871.56
Referencia: AC16/00038
Duración: 01/01/2017 - 30/06/2021

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