Speakers - NWC 2023

Biography

Eva María González Díaz. I was born in 1973 in Bilbao, Spain, where I currently live. I graduated in 1997 from the University of the Basque Country and after passing the entrance exam for the choice of the specialty I opted for radiology, given my interest in interventional radiology. After completing my four-year training as a resident internal radiology doctor at the University Hospital of Cruces, Bilbao, in 2002, I began my information as an interventional neuroradiologist. During the first two years, I worked as a diagnostic radiologist as well as an interventionist, later given the requirement in my center to promote interventional neuroradiology, it was necessary to dedicate myself exclusively to it. It was then that in 2003 I had face-to-face training at the Radclyffe Infirmary Hospital in Oxford United Kingdom. Subsequently, I carried out several pieces of training in German, French, and Turkish hospitals where the activity of interventional neuroradiology was highly developed. During this period of time, interventional neurology had an important technological advance in the treatment of aneurysms and brain malformations.

In 2009, during my pregnancy, I devoted myself to diagnostic neuroradiology and it was after my maternal leave that I became the head of the department. In 2012, we started with the 24-hour guards of Interventional Neuroradiology, to perform the endovascular treatment of both brain aneurysms and the treatment of ischemic stroke through mechanical thrombectomy. This treatment was an important advance for the clinical evolution of stroke but it meant an important change in our lives since 15 days of call per month were required. As for the scientific part, I have participated as a speaker in several congresses and scientific meetings both nationally and internationally.

I am the author of several articles referring to interventional neuroradiology in national and international journals and the lead author of the recently published article in the British Medical Journal. I also participate as a professor in both practical and theoretical training in interventional neuroradiology at the University of Santiago de Compostela Galicia Spain. I am a member of the committee on vascular tumors and neurovascular pathology of the University Hospital of Cruces and I belong to scientific societies such as the Spanish Society of Neuroradiology and the Spanish group of interventional neuroradiology.