Alex Rovira Canellas MD

Alex Rovira Canellas is a full-time neuroradiologist, who gained his MD in 1983 at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. After formal training in Radiology at Vall d’Hebron University Hospital (Barcelona), he undertook a visiting fellowship at Shands Hospital (Gainesville, University of Florida) in 1989. In 1990, he became a staff neuroradiologist at the Section of Neuroradiology at Vall d’Hebron Hospital (Barcelona, Spain). Dr. Rovira is the Director of the Magnetic Resonance Unit and of the Section of Neuroradiology at University Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona (Spain). Dr. Rovira is also a Professor of Radiology and Neuroimmunology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is specialized in diagnostic neuroradiology, and head and neck radiology, with a particular interest in demyelinating diseases, stroke, neuro-oncology, hepatic encephalopathy, and head and neck tumors.

Rovira is currently the president of the European Society of Neuroradiology, a member of MAGNIMS (European Multicenter Collaborative Research Network on MRI in MS), of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Society of Radiology, and the World Federation of Neuroradiological Societies. He is on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Neuroradiology, Neuroradiology and MS Forum, and a member of the International Advisory Board on Clinical Trials in MS. He also served as President of the Spanish Society of Neuroradiology (2009-2015), on the Lucien Appel Prize Award Jury of the European Society of Neuroradiology (2006-2012), as Editor of Neuroradiology in the Spanish Journal of Radiology, as Director of the 10th and 11th Cycles of the Pierre Lasjaunias European Course of Neuroradiology (2008-2012), and as Chairman of MAGNIMS (2012- 2018). Dr Rovira has authored or co-authored more than 330 articles, 30 book chapters or monographs, and more than 400 invited conference presentations. He has an H-index of 56.

Rovira has been invited as a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto, McGill University (Montreal), at Lysholm Department of Neuroradiology (UCL, London), Ottawa University, and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). He is an honorary member of the Paulista Society of Radiology and of the Polish Society of Radiology.