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The Aragonese neurologist José Ángel Mauri Llerda has been awarded by the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN) with the SEN Epilepsy Award in recognition of his extensive scientific work and his dedication to research into this neurological disease. "This award is given in recognition of his professional career, for expanding his scientific production, among which I would like to highlight his recent work as editor of the book Epilepsia Vascular, and for his active collaboration with the Epilepsy Group of the SEN", said José Miguel Láinez, president of this group.
Born in Barbastro (Huesca), Mauri holds a doctorate in Medicine from the University of Zaragoza and completed his MIR training in the specialty of Neurology at the Ramón y Cajal hospital in Madrid. He currently carries out his professional activity now at the Clinical Hospital of Zaragoza, where he coordinates the Epilepsy Unit of the Neurology Service of this center. He is also an associate professor of Neurology at the University of Zaragoza, where he has been organizer of several doctoral courses, including a monograph on epilepsy and another on clinical research in neurology.
He has also been principal investigator in numerous clinical trials on epilepsy and has focused his research activity mainly on epilepsies in the elderly and on new antiepileptic drugs. He has also been a researcher in the Epiberia study (a pioneering study on the epidemiology of epilepsy in Spain) and is currently coordinator of various research projects on new third-generation antiepileptic drugs, on the epidemiology of epilepsy in the emergency hospital area, Epilepsy in the elderly and vascular epilepsy.
Author or co-author of more than 100 works in national and international journals, he has been editor of several books or chapters, among which the Official Guide to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy stands out. He is a member of various professional societies, including the Aragonese Society of Neurology, the Spanish Society of Neurology and the Spanish Epilepsy Society.
