Elena Martinez MD, PhD

Elena Lopez-Cancio Martinez has a Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Neurology specialty at Germans Trias Hospital. When she finished her specialty, she obtained a Rio-Hortega training research contract, co-funded by the Spanish government's Carlos III Institute of Health and the Germans Trias Institute. This allowed her to enjoy training stays at the Medical University Hospital of South Carolina – MUSC - in Charleston, and the neurovascular research lab at the Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona. Her research training has focused on cerebrovascular diseases and, especially, intracranial atherosclerosis and primary prevention of storks. In this regard, she has served as the coordinator of the population-based Barcelona-AsIA study.

Doctorate by the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has official certification for her training in Neurosonology from the Spanish Association of Neurosonology (SONES). She has been a teacher at the School of Health Sciences of Blanquerna University in Barcelona. She is the author and co-author of more than thirty articles published in national and international magazines and more than seventy communications at conferences. She is a research member of the Research Thematic Network (RETICS) for strokes (INVICTUS) of the Spanish government's Carlos III Institute of Health. Besides doing research work, she engages in clinical practice at the Stroke Unit at Germans Trias Hospital thanks to a Joan Rodés contract by the Carlos III Institute.