Dr. Pablo Clavel Laria

NEUROSURGEON AND DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTO CLAVEL.
SPECIALIST IN GENERAL SPINE SURGERY, LUMBAR ANTERIOR APPROACH, CERVICAL MICRODISCECTOMY,
ROBOTIC SURGERY, NEURONAVIGATION AND BRAIN TUMOR SURGERY.

 

Dr. Pablo Clavel Laria

After several years working in both public and private hospitals, in 2011 I decided to launch the Instituto Clavel, which has become a renowned center for spine surgery. My main motivation was the desire to create a high-quality professional project that would provide my patients with the best medical care.

Since then, I have been able to work alonside a united team of highly qualified professionals, always focused on finding the best solutions for spinal and skull pathologies, in which we are specialists. One of the values that defines us is how we treat the patient, which we consider fundamental in our profession.

The Instituto Clavel has also allowed me to create the Fundación Clavel, a project that fulfills the desire to bring help to those who need it most. We carry out frequent missions to developing countries like Ethiopia, and among our goals is to train doctors in those countries so they can do spinal and brain operations on their own.

Experience

Surgeon in the Spine Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2005-2011)

Attending physician and Surgeon, in the Skull Base Unit, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2003- 2007)

Attending physician,  Hospital Mutua de Terrassa (2002-2003)

Attending physician, Hospital Can Ruti, Badalona (2001-2002)

Education

Residency in Neurosurgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (2000)

Degree in Medicine, University of Barcelona (1993) 

USMLE (United States Medical Licensure Examination) parts I & II: examination required for residency in US hospitals (1993)

Languages

Spanish

English

Catalan

German (beginning)

Pathologies treated

DEGENERATIVE PATHOLOGY OF THE CERVICAL AND LUMBAR SPINE:
HERNIATED DISC, DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE

CERVICAL AND LUMBAR PAIN 

TUMORS OF THE MEDULLA AND SPINE 

VERTEBRAL FRACTURES

BRAIN TUMORS

TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA

Other Academic, Scientific, and Professional activity

Research and training fellowships in various hospitals and universities in the USA and Europe, including: Emory University, Atlanta; University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma; University of California, San Diego California, and the University of Padova, Italy. 

President, Fundación Clavel – humanitarian foundation for neurosurgery in Sub-Saharan African nations.

 

Publications

Tratamiento quirúrgico de la mielopatía cervical espondiloartrósica. Estudio preliminar. [Surgical treatment of cervical spondyloarthrosic myelopathy. Preliminary study]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Neurocirugía 1993; 4:46-52.

Neurinomas gigantes intraespinales. Revista de Ortopedia y Traumatología. [Giant intraspinal neurinomas]
Clavel Escribano M., Noboa R., Faus Riera, Carrasco García M. y Clavel Laria P.
Vol. 40. 258-262.

Meningioma quístico del quiasma óptico. [Cystic meningioma of the optic chiasm]
Clavel Escribano M., Clavel Laria P.
Neurología 1996 Oct, 11:8,310.

Espondilolistesis degenerativa lumbar. Resultados del tratamiento quirúrgico. [Lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis. Surgical treatment results]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Neurocirugía 1995; 6: 196-200.

Tratamiento quirúrgico de la mielopatía cervical espondiloartrósica. [Surgical treatment of cervical spondyloarthrosic myelopathy]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Neurocirugía 1996; 4-10.

Paraplejía secundaria a expansión vertebral metastásica. [Paraplegia secondary to metastatic vertebral expansion. Clinical case]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Caso clínico. Neurocirugía 1996; 7:33-36.

Evolución benigna de un glioblastoma multiforme hipotalámico. [Benign evolution of a hypothalamic glioblastoma multiforme. Clinical case]
Clavel Escribano M., López Ibor B. y Clavel Laria P.
Caso clínico. Neurocirugía 1996; 7:49-54.

El abordaje posterolateral extracavitario a la columna dorsal. [The extracavitary posterolateral approach to the dorsal spine]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Neurocirugía 1996; 7:119-125.

Metástasis cerebrales de melanoma. [Brain metastases from melanoma]
Clavel Escribano M. y Clavel Laria P.
Neurocirugía 1996; 7:275-280

Creutzfeld-Jacob disease transmitted by dura mater graft.
Clavel M., Clavel P.
European Neurology, 1996,36:4,239-240.

Occipital neuralgia secondary to exuberant callus formation.
Clavel M. and Clavel P.
Case report. J. Neurosurgery 85: 1170-1171, 1996.

Tratamiento quirúrgico de las metástasis cerebrales. [Surgical treatment of brain metastases]
Bartumeus F., Clavel P.
Revista de Neurología 2000; 31 (6):1-3.

Quiste óseo aneurismático del hueso frontal. Caso clínico. [Aneurysmal bone cyst of the frontal bone. Clinical case]
Clavel M., Robles Balibrea A., Clavel P., Robles Cano V.
Neurocirugía 2001: 12: 166-169.

Fusión intersomática lumbar posterior. [Posterior lumbar interbody fusion]
Clavel M. Robles Balibrea A., Clavel P.
Neurocirugía 2001: 12: 447-455.

Early experience studying cerebrfal aneurysms with rotational and three-dimensional angiography and review of CT and MR angiography literature.
Castaño C. Ruscalleda J., Clavel P.
Interventional Neuroradiology 8: 377-391, 2002.

Monitorización neurofisiológica intraoperatoria del tronco del encéfalo en un caso de cavernoma en protuberancia. [Intraoperatory neurophysiological monitoring of the brain-stem in a pontine cavernoma].
Rodriguez R, Molet J, de Teresa S, Tresserras P, Clavel P, Cano P, Solivera J, Muñoz F, Bartumeus F.
Neurocirugia, Vol 16, 117-123, 2005.

Estudio retrospectivo de 100 MAVs (malformaciones arteriovenosas). [Retrospective study of 100 AVMs (arteriovenous malformatiosn)]
Muñoz F., Clavel P. et al.
Neurocirugia 2007.

Efectividad de las valvulas gravitacionales en la prevención del hiperdrenaje en pacientes adultos con hidrocefalia. [Effectiveness of gravitational valves in the prevention of hyperdrainage in adult patients with hydrocephalus]
C. de Quintana-Schmidt, R. Rodriguez, P. Clavel et al.
Rev. Nuerología 2009,4982):64-68.

Multiple radiation-induced neurofibromas.
De Quintana Schmidt C., Clavel Laria P.
Neurology 2010 Sep 28;75(13):1214.

Scrotal migration of ventriculoperitoneal shunts.
De Quintana-Schmidt C, Clavel Laria P, Folch MT, Calderón EM, Rodríguez RR.
An Pediatr (Barc). 2010 Oct;73(4):219-21. 

The occipital nerve stimulation therapy as a treatment for drug-resistant cluster headache.
De Quintana-Schmidt C. Casajuna-Garreta E., Clavel P.. Rev. Neurol.
(in press) Rev Neurol. 2010 Jul 1;51(1):19-26.

Uretal injury after posterior lumbar surgery. Case report.
De Quintana-Schmidt C. Clavel Laria P., Bartumeus-Jene F.
Neurocirugía (Astur) 2011 Apr;22(2):162-6.

Sinking skin flap syndrome.
De Quintana-Schmidt C, Clavel Laria P., Asencio C et al.
Rev Neurol 2011 Jun 1;52(11): 661-4.

Spinal cord metastasis from gliosarcoma. Case report and review of the literature.
Asencio C, Clavel Laria P, Montes G et al.
Neurocirugía (Astur) 2013 Dec.

Health-related quality of life in patients undergoing lumbar total disc replacement: a comparison with the general population.
Clavel P et al.
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery Vol 160, Sept 2017. Pages 119-124.

 

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