Aurelio Ariza is Chief of the Department of Pathology at Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (HUGTiP) and Professor of Pathology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He pursued his anatomic pathology residency training at the Yale University-affiliated Hospital of St Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut, during the period 1980-1984 and then completed his training with a fellowship in neuropathology and a fellowship in surgical pathology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, during the period 1984-1988.
Among others, he has served as research director of the HUGTiP (1997-2000), research vice dean of the UAB Medical School (2001-2004) and President of the Spanish Society of Pathology (2007-2011). He has been the principal investigator of several neuropathology projects, has authored over one hundred peer-reviewed articles and is co-author of two patents dealing with neurological diseases. Additionally, he has reviewed articles for Medicina Clínica, Revista Española de Patología, Archivos de Bronconeumología, Revista Española de Anestesiología, British Journal of Cancer, Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology, Annals of Oncolog and Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.
He has received the Professional Excellence Award of the Barcelona Medical College (2011) and has been appointed member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Catalonia (2012). Currently, he is President of the National Commission for Anatomic Pathology of the Spanish Ministry of Health, member of the Council of the European Society of Pathology (ESP) and Editor of the ESP Newsletter.
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