Dr. Javier Giner García

NEUROSURGEON.
SPECIALIST IN SPINE SURGERY AND MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SPINE SURGERY. 

Dr. Javier Giner García

Throughout my residency training as a Neurosurgeon, I was always intrigued by spinal pathology and the possibility of solving problems that are so disabling for the patients we treat. However, I saw that the surgical approaches used were sometimes more aggressive that the problem itself that we wanted to treat. During my training abroad I was able to learn techniques that are hardly used in Europe – techniques that respect the structures of the body, allowing us to treat problems with the same efficiency, but offering patients a faster recovery.

At the Instituto Clavel I have found a leading center in Spain that works mainly using these minimally invasive techniques. It is an honor for me to be able to continue with my training and contribute my knowledge in these innovative techniques that are, without a doubt, so beneficial for patients compared to classical techniques.

Experience

Neurosurgeon in private practice, Instituto Clavel, Hospital San Francisco de Asís, Madrid (2020-present)

Neurosurgeon in private practice, Hospital Vithas Nisa Pardo de Aravaca, Madrid (2019-2020)

Staff Neurosurgeon, specialist in the Neurosurgery department of Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid (2017-present)

Education

Two month external residency for training in a minimally-invasive lateral approach spinal surgery, under the mentorship of Juan S. Uribe .  St. Joseph Dignity Hospital Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ USA (2019)

External residency for training in minimally-invasive spinal surgery, under the mentorship of Richard G. Fessler,  Rush University Medical Center, Chicago IL, USA (2016)

Residency in Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario de La Paz (2013-2017)

Degree in Medicine, Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2005-2011)

Languages

Spanish

English

German

Pathologies treated

LUMBAR AND CERVICAL DISC HERNIATION USING MINIMALLY-SURGICAL APPROACHES

DEGENERATIVE PATHOLOGIES OF THE SPINAL COLUMN

MINIMALLY-INVASIVE POSTERIOR APPROACH CERVICAL SURGERY

MINIMALLY-INVASIVE LATERAL APPROACH (PRESERVING  THE LUNGS)

LATERAL AND ANTERIOR APPROACH LUMBAR SURGERY

ADULT DEGENERATIVE SCOLIOSIS

BRAIN PATHOLOGY

HYDROCEPHALUS

Other Academic, Scientific, and Professional activity

Honors and Awards

Winner, REX (Residente Excelente) Scholarship, 2017 Hospital Universitario La Paz. Scholarship awarded to the most outstanding resident and best innovative project, of all the hospital specialties, Class of 2017.

Oral presentation selected for inclusion in “MEJORES COMUNICACIONES” [Best Presentations], Neurocirugía Neuroiberia International Congress 2016.

Outstanding Graduating Senior in Medicine, Class of 2006-2011. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

 

Courses taught

Multiple training sessions given in the Neurosurgery service and in other services of the Hospital La Paz (2013-present).

Miniminally Invasive Approaches for Spinal Surgery, Hospital Universitario La Paz, (May 24, 2019).

Symposium Controversias en el tratamiento de la patología degenerativa de la columna vertebral, [Controversies in the treatment of degenerative pathology of the spine], XVII Simposium Neurocirugía (Neurosurgery Symposium) Clínica La Luz, Madrid (November 15-17, 2019).

Master class, on the topic “Actualización en la fisiopatología y manejo de la siringomielia no relacionada con malformación de Chiari", [Update in the pathophysiology and management of syringomyelia not related to Chiari malformation], XXII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Neurocirugía (SENEC) Toledo (2018).

Session on Syringomyelia non-related to Chiari, during Residency in Chicago (November 2016).

Refresher course on Adult Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2018).

Refresher course on Neuro-Surgical Pathology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2017).

Refresher course on Adult Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2017).

Refresher course on Neuro-Surgical Pathology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2016).

Refresher course on Neuro-Surgical Pathology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2015). 

Refresher course on Pediatric Neuro-Surgical Pathology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2015).

Refresher course on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2015). 

Refresher course on Neuro-Surgical Pathology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2014).

 

Courses and Congresses attended

Nuevas perspectivas en el tratamiento de columna compleja, [New perspectives in complex spine treatment] Bilbao (February 7, 2020).

MERC: Emerging technologies for the complex spine cadaveric training program, Madrid (October 11-12, 2019).

7th European course minimally invasive spinal surgery hands-on course EUCMISS, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid (June 6-7, 2019).

Refresher course on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2018).

Refresher course on Treatment of Peripheral Nerve Pathology (4th edition), Hospital Universitario La Paz (2018).

International course Understanding and applying sagittal balance. Cadaveric training program. Verona, (2018). 

II Curso de Endoscopia endonasal de base de cráneo, [II Course Endonasal Skull Base Endoscopy], hands-on course, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2017).

5th European course minimally invasive spinal surgery hands-on course eucmiss, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid (2017).

I Curso de Endoscopia endonasal de base de cráneo, [I Course Endonasal Skull Base Endoscopy], hands-on course, Hospital Universitario de La Paz (2016).

Refresher course on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Hospital Universitario La Paz (2015).

Publications

Myxoid/round cell liposarcoma of the brachial plexus. Neurocirugía (Astur).
Giner J, Isla A, Hernández B, Nistal M.
2014 Nov-Dec; 25(6)290-3. Doi:10.1016/j.neucir-2014-06-003. Epub Aug7. Spanish. PMID:25126709

Primary epidural lumbar Ewing's sarcoma: Case report and review of literature.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2016 Mar;41(6):E375-8. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001246.
Giner J, Isla A, Cubedo R, Tejerina E.

Siringomielia no secundaria a Chiari. Actualización en fisiopatología y manejo.
Giner J, Pérez López C, Hernández B, Gómez de La Riva A, Isla A, Roda JM.
Neurologia. 2016 Dec 8. pii: S0213-4853(16)30216-X. doi: 10.1016/j.nrl.2016.09.010.

Spinal adrenal cortical adenoma associated to Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome: Case report and review of literature.
Giner J, Esteban I, Carceller F, Saceda J, Regojo RM.
Childs Nerv Syst 2017 Jun;33(6):1009-1013. doi: 10.1007/s00381-017-3397-y. Epub 2017 Apr 1

El traumatismo craneoencefálico severo en el nuevo milenio. Nueva población y nuevo manejo.
Giner J, Mesa L., Guallar MC, Yus S, Pérez López C, Isla Guerrero A, Roda Frade J.
Neurología. (2019). 

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