Miguel Angel Santos is a neurologist clinical research fellow who joined the Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit at Bellvitge in 2017. His research focuses on studying the cognitive mechanisms and neuroanatomy underlying language and praxis impairment in patients across different neurodegenerative disease syndromes with the ultimate goal of improving diagnosis and disease monitorization. His research methodology includes integration and analysis of neurological, neuropsychological, psychophysics, neuroimaging, biomarker, and pathological data. He was born in Washington DC where he lived until moving to Spain at the age of 17. He completed medical school at the University of Salamanca and the Neurology residency at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain. Between the years 2013-2017 he worked at the University of California San Francisco Memory and Aging Center where he collaborated with Dr. Gorno-Tempini in the Language Neurobiology Lab, Dr. Rabinovici in a cohort study of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, and Dr. Sabes in his sensory-motor integration lab. He is currently supported by a grant from the Spanish government (contrato Rio Hortega).

Miguel will defend his PhD this September, being supervised by Drs. Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Dr. Juan Fortea, and Dr. Antonio Escartin.

Clinicopathologic correlations and neuroimaging biomarkers in primary progressive aphasia

 

Programa de Doctorat en Medicina con el Real Decreto 1393

The thesis will be defended in:

Sala de Graus

12:00h