Numerary Member
Health Sciences: Doctor in Medicine and Surgery
Date of admission: September 19, 2023
Admission speech: «Dr. Manuel Corachan Llort: Pioneer of Neurosurgery»
Reply speech: Hon. Dr. Fernando Martínez-Pintor, Doctor in Medicine and Surgery
Outstanding career: He has combined his clinical practice with teaching and research, authoring books and numerous studies on neurosurgery and spinal cord pathology. His career is distinguished by scientific rigour, technical innovation and a deep commitment to medical education.
Dr. JOSEP PRIM CAPDEVILA
- Born in Montoliu de Lleida (Lleida) in 1955.
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- In 1979, he obtained his Degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Hospital de Sant Pau of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
- He specialized in Neurosurgery at the Hospital del Mar of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona in 1983.
- He achieved the degree of Doctor Cum Laude in Medicine and Surgery from the same University in 1992.
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- He has belonged to various national societies, such as the Academia de Ciencias Médicas de Cataluña y Baleares, the Sociedad Catalana y Española de Neurocirugía, the Sociedad Catalana de Neurología, the Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina, the Medical-Surgical Association of Lleida, the Sociedad Española del Dolor, the Sociedad Catalana de Cirugía, the Asociación Catalana de Paleopatología and the Sociedad Española de Neuro-Raquis.
- At an international level, he has been a member of the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery and of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
- He has carried out training stays in international hospitals such as the George Washington Hospital (Neurosurgery Department), the University Clinic Steglitz in Berlin, the Institute of Neurological Sciences at the Glasgow Hospital and the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Medicine.
- In Spain, he has served as an assistant physician in the Neurosurgery Departments of the Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol in Badalona, the Instituto Dexeus in Barcelona, the Hospital General de Cataluña in Sant Cugat del Vallès, and the Hospital del Mar de Barcelona.
- He has been Coordinating Physician of the Neurosurgery Service at the Centro Médico Teknon in Barcelona.
- Head of the Neurosurgery Department at the Hospital del Sagrat Cor in Barcelona.
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Fundació Joan Oró.
- Author of two books and several book chapters; organizer of Neurosurgery Courses for Nursing Staff since 1981 and professor in master’s programs in Neurosurgical Nursing.
- He is currently a consultant in the Neurosurgery Department of the Clínica Corachan de Barcelona.
