Dr. Alex De Vilalta Bufurull

• ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  
  
  • 2013: MEDICAL DEGREE. Degree in Medicine and Surgery.
    Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebrón. Barcelona, Spain. 2007-2013
• CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
  
  
  • 2019 - present: STAFF NEUROSURGEON.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge.
  • 2014 - 2019: NEUROSURGERY RESIDENCY.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Carrer feixa llarga S/N, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, 08907, Barcelona, Spain.
• MEMBERSHIPS
  
  
  • SENEC: Sociedad Española de Neurocirugía (Spanish Society of Neurosurgery).
  • EANS: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.
• EDUCATIONAL COURSES ATTENDED
  
  
  • 2014: Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC).
    Cerebro Vascular Annual Meeting.
    Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2015: Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC). Paediatric Neurosurgery.
    Course for Residents and Young Neurosurgeons.
    Alicante, Spain.
  • 2015: Course Hydrocephalus and CSF pathology.
    Sevilla, Spain.
  • 2016: Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC). Vascular Neurosurgery.
    Course for Residents and Young Neurosurgeons.
    Alicante, Spain.
  • 2016: Course of medical care to patients with neuro-critical pathology.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2016: XVII International Simposium of neuromonitoring and neuro-critical care.
    Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2016: I Course of Brain Mapping.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2016: Anual Meeting of the Neuro-oncologic Group of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC).
    Madrid, Spain.
  • 2017: Skull Base Approaches Course, middle fossa approaches.
    Hospital de St Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2016: Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC). Oncologic Neurosurgery.
    Course for Residents and Young Neurosurgeons.
    Alicante, Spain.
  • 2017: II Course of Brain Mapping.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2018: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training Courses.
    Spine and Peripheral Nerves.
    Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • 2018: II Course of Vascular and Nervous Micro-Anastomosis.
    Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain.
  • 2018: Skull Base Approaches Course, transpetrous and transconydlar approaches.
    Hospital de St Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2019: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training Courses.
    Vascular.
    Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2019: European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) Training Courses.
    Tumor.
    Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina.
• PRIZES
  
  
  • 2018: FIRST PRIZE. Facial Nerve Dissection. At the Skull Base Approaches Course, transpetrous and transconydlar approaches.
    Hospital de St Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
• ORAL COMNICATIONS
  
  
  • 2016: Àlex De Vilalta, Oscar Godino, Luis Lopez Obarrio, Isabel Fernandez Conejero, Neomi Vidal.
    "Spinal Ependymomas. Clinical and surgical experience".
    Congress of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC), Estoril, Portugal.
  • 2017: Àlex De Vilalta, Alejandro Fernández Coello, Gerard Plans, Jose Luis Sanmillán, Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, Andreu Gabarrós.
    "Insular gliomas. Surgical experience".
    Congress of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC), Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2017: Àlex De Vilalta, Alejandro Fernández Coello, Gerard Plans, Jose Luis Sanmillán, Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, Andreu Gabarrós.
    "Awake Mapping for Ressection of Low Grade Insular Glioma".
    Catalan Society Meeting. Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2018: Àlex De Vilalta, Alberto Torres, Jose Luís Sanmillán, Andreu Gabarrós.
    "Tuberculum sellae meningiomas. The transcraneal approach vs. the endoscopic extended endonasal approach".
    Congress of the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery (SENEC), Toledo.
  • 2019: Alicia Paramio, Julia Miró, Jordi Pedro, Oscar Godino, Alex De Vilalta, Inmaculada Navas, Isabel Fernandez.
    "Utility of the Intraoperative Neuromonitoring in Dorsal Spine Surgery".
    IV Congress of the Spanish IONM Society.
• CLINICAL TRIALS PARTICIPATION
  
  
  • Swiss Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy versus Best Medical Treatment of Spontaneous Supratentorial Intracerebral Hemorrhage (SWITCH): A Randomized Controlled Trial.
    Sub-Investigator Neurosurgeon.
  • Clinical Research Study with Clazosentan to Evaluate Its Effects on Preventing Complications Due to the Narrowing of the Blood Vessels (Vasospasm) in the Brain, Caused by Bleeding Onto the Surface of the Brain (REACT).
    Sub-Investigator Neurosurgeon.
  • A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of BIIB093 in Participants with Brain Contusion (ASTRAL).
    Sub-Investigator Neurosurgeon.
  • Estudio Prospectivo Multicéntrico para Evaluar la Seguridad y la Eficacia de un Sistema de Bloqueo de Hernia para Evitar la Recidiva de Hernia Discal Lumbar (ACE-1).
    Sub-Investigator Neurosurgeon.
• OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
  
  
  • 2018: VISITING INTERNATIONAL OBSERVER SURGEON.
    Minimal Invasive and Complex Spine Program.
    Neurological Surgery Department. University of California San Francisco.
  • 2018: VISITING INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOW.
    Skull Base and Cerebrovascular Laboratory.
    University of California San Francisco.
• POSTERS
  
  
  • 2019: AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meeting.
    "Side-to-Side Posterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (PICA) - Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA) Bypass: An Anatomic Cadaveric Study".
  • 2019: AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meeting.
    "Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA) Revascularization with the Occipital Artery (OA): An Anatomic Cadaveric Study".
  • 2019: AANS/CNS Cerebrovascular Section Annual Meeting.
    "Microsurgical Anatomy of Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery (AICA) and its Neurovascular Relevant Relations for Treatment of AICA Aneurysms with Revascularization Procedures. An Anatomical Cadaveric Study".
• PUBLICATIONS
  
  
  • 2019: Roberto Rodriguez Rubio, MD; Ricky Chae, BA; W. Caleb Rutledge, MD; Alex De Vilalta, MD; Ioannis Kournoutas, BS; Ethan Winkler, MD, PhD, Adib Abla, MD.
    Clipping of a High-Risk Dural Arteriovenous Fistula of the Posterior Fossa: 3D Operative Video.
    World Neurosurgery.
  • 2019: Alex De Vilalta, Ioannis Kournoutas, Pablo López Ojeda, Andreu Gabarrós Canals, Vera Vigo, Caleb W. Rutledge, Ricky Chae, Adib A. Abla, Roberto Rodriguez Rubio.
    Revascularization of the Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Using Extracranial and Intracranial Donors: A Morphometric Cadaveric Study.
    World Neurosurgery.
• EQUIPO de NEUROLOGICS