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NEURORADIOLOGY TRAINING:

 1)-   Neuroscience :  NEURO-ANATOMY,  NEUROLOGY, NEUROCIRUGERY y NEURO-RADIOLOGY, San Juan de Dios Hospital,  Bogotá.

2)-   NEURO – RADIOLOGY :, at the Neuro-Radiology department of the Neurologic Institute of Colombia, 1984 (5 mo)

3)-   ADVANCED CT NEURORADIOLOGY Course, Spain and Holland, Hospital Val d'Hebron, I.S.S. Barcelona, Spain, 1985,

4)-  ENDOVASCULAR BRAIN THERAPY, Barcelona, Spain, H.G.C. Therapeutic , 1999

5)-  ENDOVASCULAR BRAIN THERAPY COURSE, at the  E.N.E.R.I. Neuro-Surgery Endovascular Service of Belgrano Clinic, Buenos Aires,  Argentina, 2000.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

1)- FOUNDER OF THE NEURORADIOLOGY SERVICE, at the Radiolog Department of the San Juan de Dios Hospital, year 1985.

Responsabilities : Performed as Director for 10 (ten) Years from 1985  to 1994

Equipment : CAT SCAN (Philips TOMOSCAN 350); GE Angiographer

2)- ASISTANT TEACHER OF THE Medicine Faculty of the NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBIA, at the Radiology Department of the SAN JUAN DE DIOS HOSPITAL, Bogotá, Colombia .

      From  1986  to  1995 .

      Diploma  issued by the Medicine Faculty  on Sept. 16 of  1991

Responsabilities: NEURO-RADIOLOGY Professor for postgraduate doctors, residents, neurologists, and other specialties

      ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES :

- Case review and image reading regular sessions for Radiology and Neuroradiology studies     

- Perform, supervise and reading CAT images. 

-  Cisternography and Mielo-CT.

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3)-   Other curricular activities :

Special Guest Teacher to the Clinic Board of the Neuro-oncology of the Nacional Cancerology Institute, Years 1991 a 1993.

4)- NEURO-RADIOLOGIST at the  NATIONAL CENTRAL POLICE HOSPITAL OF

      COLOMBIA for founding and Directing the Neuro-Radiology service to develop:

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       From  1986 to  1989 .

5)- Consultant NEURO-RADIOLOGIST  at private CAT Services (South Policlinic institute and Teusaquillo). G.E.  y  Shimadzu CAT Scanners. Years from 1989 to 1992

And private scanner at Pepe  Sierra,  1993 to 1999.

6)-  NEURO-RADIOLOGIST  of the Imagenology Department,  Computed Tomography service at the East Clinic, at  Bogota from 1993  to   2000 (7 years).

7)-  ASESOR  del  Centro  Profesional  de  Resonancia  Magnetica  y  Neuro-Imagen 

 Ltda.,  centro  privado  de  Diagnostico ,  en  Bogota .  1994  to  1995 .

8)- FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR of the Imagenology Department Services (Private) :

- Angiograph equipment, MRI, Helicoidal CT, and X-Ray, Ecography and Mammography, Years : 1997 to  2000 .

9)-  ADVISOR TO THE SOCIAL SECURTY INSTITUTE (Colombia) for Imagenology service projects and CAT Scan for the SAINT PETER CLINIC OF BOGOTA Years from 1989 to 1990.

10)-  DIRECTOR  of the Radiology Department of the SAINT PETER CLINIC OF BOGOTA, Bogotá, D.C.

Year 1991

HIGHLIGHTS SUMMARY

General Radiology :

    Reading of usual X-ray studies (Skull, Spine, Paranasal sinuses, Chest, Bone & Joints, Abdomen,  etc.), mostly in Emergency settings & Hospitalized patients, but also in outpatient basis (especially Neuro cases).

Ultrasound :

    Basic skills on general ultrasound (Liver & Gallbladder disease, Pancreas, Abdominal Trauma, Abdominal pain evaluation), especially on emergency settings & inpatient basis ; basics on emergency Ob-Gyn ultrasound ;   Cerebral ultrasound in newborns (intracranial hemorrhage).  

Doppler Duplex Color :

    Doppler diagnosis, especially on Emergency settings (Deep Venous Thrombosis, Lower  extremities arterial occlusions, Carotid occlusion, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Acute vascular trauma, etc.) ; Carotid-Vertebral doppler for the study of risk factors in cerebro-vascular disease ; evaluation of Varicose disease  of lower legs ;  Peripheral vascular diabetic / atherosclerotic disease ;

Computed Tomography :

    Whole Body CT (5 years experience), but special training & strenght in Neuro (20 years experience).

Magnetic Resonance Imaging :

    Especially in Neuro (skull, brain & spine).  But also basic diagnostic knowledge in the most frequent Musculoskeletal pathologic processes, such as Knee & Shoulder pre-OP lesions ; MR Cholangio-pancreatography;

Neuro-Radiology :

    Skull & Spine X-Ray,  CNS Computed Tomography, general CNS Magnetic Resonance Imaging.  No clinical experience in MR Spectroscopy, or MR Diffusion Imaging.

Interventional Radiology :

      Diagnostic :

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      Interventional :

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LICENSING PROCESS:

United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Process :

Step I examination : on April 30 / 2002  Score :  PASS,  90  (over 99).

Step II CK examination :  on Diciember 27 / 2005.   Score :  PASS,  91 (over 99).

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Step II CS examination: on April, 2009 :  Score: Pass

        &a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;n bsp;       ARTICLE PUBLISHING

Book : BRAIN AND LANGUAGE, Brain organization of Language and cognitive process.  

Authors: Feggy  Ostrosky – Solís   Alfredo  Ardila 

Editorial:  Trillas,    Year 1994

Editorial:  Edit. Plenum  Press,  New  York,   1989

Co-autor  of chapter  7.   Alexy  y  agraphy disease on Latinamericans, CORRELACIONES  TOMOGRAFICAS.

COLOMBIAN CURRENTS OF NEUROLOGY, Vol. 20 No.2 June 2004

ISSN  0120-8748

Article :   HERPETIC ENCEPHALYTIS Imaging, Case review and CT Findings.

ORL, Head and Neck Surgery Magazine. Vol 32, No. 1,  March 2004   ISSN 0120-8411  Artícle :  CHERUBISM: Case Report and Literature Review.

ORL, Head and Neck Surgery Magazine. Vol 32, No. 2,  June 2004   ISSN 0120-8411

Article :  MULTICENTRIC PARAGANGLIOMA : Case Report.

Colombian Neurology Magazine Vol.8  No.3   1992,

Article: Inmunology, Radiology and Clinic follow-up of patients with Neuro-Cysticercosis Patiens.

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Colombian Neurology Magazine    Vol.3   No.1   1987

Artícle :   Tuberculoses Cerebral Abscess: Case Report. CT Asessment and Review.