The 19th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology

Pablo A. Valdes

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Neurobiology
Director of Neurosurgical Oncology and Brain Tumor Program
Jennie Sealy Distinguished Chair in Neuroscience
University of Texas Medical Branch
Department of Neurosurgery

United States

Dr. Valdes is an Assistant Professsor of Neurosurgery, the Jennie Sealy Distinguished Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Director of Neurosurgical Oncology and Brain Tumor Program at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and affiliate faculty in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University. He received his MD and PhD from Dartmouth Medical School and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. He completed his neurosurgery residency at Harvard Medical School, training with experts in his field, specifically treating complex brain tumors at three top Harvard hospitals including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Harvard/Dana Farber Cancer Center. He furthered his training with the world’s expert in brain mapping, the neurosurgeon Hugues Duffau, MD, PhD, where he acquired unique skills to successfully remove brain tumors in areas that are most critical for movement, speech, and the cognitive processes that “make us human” to ensure the best quality of life for his patients. Dr. Valdes’ PhD in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth uniquely equips him as a neurosurgeon and scientist. He continued his research with post-doctoral work in novel brain tumor imaging technologies at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At UTMB and Rice University, Dr. Valdes leads a neuroengineering and advanced imaging laboratory with multiple collaborations across the USA including Houston, Boston, and Oregon as well as international collaborations in Canada, Germany and France, in addition to his surgical practice dedicated to treating complex brain and intracranial tumors. He has over 15 years of research experience in developing new technologies to better understand, diagnose, and treat brain tumors. His clinical training and cutting-edge research allow him to provide his patients with the latest brain tumor treatment as he pioneers the development of next generation technologies to improve their diagnosis and treatment. He has authored articles in top journals of the field including Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, Cell, Brain, Neuro-Oncology, Journal of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neuro-oncology, Journal of Neuropathology Experiment Neurology, Optics Letters, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Biomedical Optics Express. He has intellectual property from Dartmouth, Harvard,  MIT and UTMB including patents or patent applications. The impact of his research can be seen by over 4900 citations and over 50 articles and book chapters.