Our professionals
Dr. Alberto Vieco
Specialist in Pediatrics.
Subspecialty in Child Neurology.
Primary focus on the study and treatment of children with neurological disorders.
Professional career
Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2010.
Specialist in Pediatrics and Specific Areas at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid in 2015.
Specific training in Child Neurology endorsed by the Spanish Society of Pediatric Neurology (SENEP) from 2014 to 2016.
PhD in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2017 with the thesis: “Assessment of perioperative anxiety in children undergoing major outpatient surgery.” Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Manuel Moro Serrano and Prof. Dr. Esther Aleo Luján.
Attending Pediatrician, subspecialist in the Child Neurology Section at Hospital Universitario Infanta Elena, Madrid, in 2017.
Attending Pediatrician and Child Neurologist at Hospital Universitario Fundación Alcorcón during 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, working in Pediatric Emergency Care and outpatient Child Neurology clinics.
Pediatrician and Child Neurologist at Centro Integral Cervantes in Tarancón (Cuenca) from May 2015 to 2017.
Specialist Physician in Neonatology (Neonatal ICU III-B) and Pediatric ICU at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid.
Child Neurologist and Pediatrician at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Madrid Campus – Pamplona Campus) since January 2018.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Collaborating investigator in several clinical trials at the Clínica Universidad de Navarra since 2018 (areas of Child Neurology and Neurosurgery).
- Member of the review committee for original articles in the journal Acta Pediátrica Española in 2018.
- SENEP Research Grant 2015: “Impairment of executive functions in patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy and benign focal epilepsy of childhood. Neuropsychological profile and impact on quality of life.”
- Collaborator in the 2013 inter-hospital working group on Malaria at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid.
- Resident collaborator at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in the MENDICOS Study in 2013.
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Study and diagnosis of headaches
- sleep disorders
- epilepsies
- Non-epileptic paroxysmal disorders
- Movement disorders and tics
- Macrocephaly
- Microcephaly
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Cerebral palsy
- Chromosomal syndromes
- Metabolic, mitochondrial, and hereditary-degenerative diseases
- Genetic diseases
- Neurological disorders of the premature infant.
Activity
In teaching
- Associate Lecturer in the Department of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the University of Navarra, accredited since July 2018. Classes taught in the 3rd and 6th years of the Medical Degree.
- Co-supervisor of a Medical Degree final project at the Complutense University of Madrid in 2017.
- Honorary collaborator in practical teaching for undergraduate training in the Department of Pediatrics at Hospital Clínico San Carlos in Madrid – Complutense University of Madrid between 2012 and 2017.
- Collaboration as tutor of students with the MIR preparatory academy CTO – Spain during 2011.
- Collaborator as instructor in Pediatrics and Specific Areas with the MIR preparatory academy CTO Medicina – Spain between July 2015 and January 2016.
- Repeatedly a member of doctoral thesis committees at the Complutense University of Madrid.
In research
- Publication of his doctoral thesis in a first-quartile (Q1) high-impact international journal as first author.
- Participation and attendance at more than 20 national and international Pediatric Congresses with more than 30 oral or poster communications, mostly as first author.
- Attendance at more than 50 continuing education courses, serving as speaker in several of them.
- Has published a scientific article in a national journal in his specialty.
- Collaborator in multicenter pediatric studies.