Specialist Profile
PhD in Medicine, specialist in Neurology and Epilepsy; recognised as an Epileptology specialist by the International League Against Epilepsy. His doctoral thesis investigates Video-EEG in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
Lecturer on the Master’s Degree in Neuroscience at the University of Valencia.
Member of the EEG Commission of the Spanish Society of Neurology and of the Epilepsy Guidelines Development Group of the Spanish Society of Neurology. Member of the Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy.
Awarded the Scientific Prize in Epilepsy by the Spanish Society of Neurology in 2014.
Principal investigator in more than 40 clinical trials in Epilepsy over the last 20 years. Author of more than 150 scientific articles on epilepsy, editor of 3 books on epilepsy and member of the scientific committee of several international epilepsy journals.
Experience and Training
Associate Professor of Neurology
University of Valencia
Seminars of the European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA)
26th International Epilepsy Congress
“Diagnostic Issues 1 – Is it epilepsy?”
Teaching Course: Clinical Epileptology
8th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies
Seminars at the European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA)
6th European Congress on Epileptology in Vienna:
“Neuroanatomy for epileptologists”; “Principles of expression and functional characterization of mutant ion channels in idiopathic epilepsies”.
ILAE Workshop in Neuroimaging. Diagnostic Method Commission
Lisbon 25th International Epilepsy Congress
Training in the programme “Epilepsy surgery: Video-EEG, MRI and special neuroimaging techniques”
Epilepsy Center, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA
Subspecialisation in Epilepsy
Madrid
Training in the Department of Neuropaediatrics and EEG
Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital, Paris, France
Epilepsy Mini-Fellowship Programme
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Seminarios en la European Epilepsy Academy (EUREPA)
5th European Congress on Epileptology in Madrid:
“Seizures induced by visual stimuli”, “Epileptic encephalopathies”, ”Functional MR and MR spectroscopy”, “Is there still a place for SPECT in epilepsy?”
Introduction to Research for Neurologists Course
Spanish Society of Neurology
Neurology Residency (MIR)
Valencia
Basic Epidemiology and Statistics Course
Spanish National Health System
Movement Disorders Course for Residents
Spanish Society of Neurology
PhD in the Department of Physiology
Research in the Analysis of Hereditary Ataxias
Epilepsy Course for Residents
Spanish Society of Neurology
Curso de Neurología de Conducta y Demencias
Sociedad Española de Neurología
Degree in Medicine and Surgery
University of Valencia
Awards
Ascires has the ENS certification with the MEDIA category for its medical centers in the Valencian Community and Madrid.
