Jaume Sastre-Garriga, MD PhD
Dr. Jaume Sastre-Garriga received his MD at the University of Barcelona, his PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and trained as a neurologist at the Neurology Department, Hospital Vall d’Hebron. From June 2002 to December 2004, he was a awarded a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Health and held a post as a clinical research fellow at the MRI and Neurorehabilitation units, Institute of Neurology, London. In 2004 and 2005, he was awarded the prize for the best Spanish paper in an international neurological journal by the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN). From January 2005 to February 2007, Dr. Sastre-Garriga was Medical Director of the neurorehabilitation centres of the MS Foundation in Catalonia. Since March 2007, he serves as a staff neurologist at the Department of Neurology / Neuroimmunology & MS Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat – www.cem-cat.org ), Hospital Vall d’Hebron (Barcelona). He now serves as co-chair of the steering committee of MAGNIMS, is a member of the International Progressive MS Alliance (Enhancing Wellbeing Implementation Planning Team) and of the Medical Advisory Committee of MS Spain (EME) and served as treasurer in the executive board of RIMS (2014-2020). Since February 2016, he is Director of Revista de Neurología (Impact Factor 2020: 0,89), since 2015, he is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Multiple Sclerosis Journal, where he now serves as Co-Editor for Europe. Dr. Sastre-Garriga is coauthor of 200 medline-indexed papers (7,014 citations - h-index: 48 - SCOPUS). Research interests include functional and structural MRI and neurorehabilitation, with a particular focus on progressive MS.
