Ana Alarcon Allen
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The researcher Ana Alarcón graduated in Medicine in 1998 from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She got her PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2011.
Between 2013 and 2017 she worked as a Neonatologist Consultant and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Oxford Hospital (United Kingdom). She maintains a bond with Oxford through a Clinical Research Fellowship.
In 2006, she joined as a Neonatologist at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
Her area of research is perinatal brain damage secondary to infection / inflammation or hypoxia-ischemia.
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SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital Last Publications
- Alarcon A, de Vries LS, Parodi A, Arnáez J, Cabañas F, Steggerda SJ, Rebollo M, Ramenghi L, Dorronsoro I, López-Azorín M, Schneider J, Noguera-Julián A, Rios-Barnés M, Recio M, Bickle-Graz M, Martínez-Biarge M, Fortuny-Guasch C, García-Alix A and Truttmann AC Neuroimaging in infants with congenital cytomegalovirus infection and its correlation with outcome: emphasis on white matter abnormalities ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD-FETAL AND NEONATAL EDITION . : .
- Hawkins-Villarreal A, Castillo K, Nadal A, Planas-Roman S, Moreno-Espinosa AL, Alarcon A, Rebollo M, Figueras-Retuerta F, Gratacós E, Eixarch E and Goncé A Halo sign in fetal cytomegalovirus infection: cerebral imaging abnormalities and postmortem histopathology in 35 infected fetuses ULTRASOUND IN OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY . 61(6): 749-757.
- García-Alix A, Arnaez-Solis J, Herranz N, Alarcon A, Arca-Diaz G, Eva Maria Valverde Nuñez, Blanco, D and Simon Pedro Lubian López Ten years since the introduction of therapeutic hypothermia in neonates with perinatal hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy in Spain. Neurologia . 38(5): 364-371.
Projects
- Project name:
- Evaluation of a new point-of-care risk-stratification tool based on quantification of prognostic biomarkers for the screening of the very sick patient to improve neonatal survival
- Leader
- Ana Alarcon Allen
- Funding entities:
- Sociedad Española de Neonatología
- Code
- PCP00386
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2023 - 2024
- Project name:
- Estudio CRIB (Cribado de citomegalovirus congénito en recién nacidos sanos e ingresados - Barcelona)
- Leader
- Ana Alarcon Allen, Antoni Noguera Julián
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PI19/00095
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2020 - 2024
- Project name:
- Infarto cerebral neonatal: una investigación multidisciplinar sobre factores patogénicos, nuevos indicadores diagnósticos y pronósticos, e impacto sobre el neurodesarrollo y la calidad vida.
- Leader
- Alfredo Garcia-Alix Pérez
- Funding entities:
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII)
- Code
- PI08/1366
- Starting - finishing date:
- 2009 - 2014