Honors and Awards
Award (Gold medal for Clinical excellence) from the Venezuelan Congress of Neurological Surgeons for his contribution to the development of Neurosurgery in Venezuela, Merida, Venezuela, 2006
Award for clinical and teaching excellence from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2004
Honor guest at the Annual Meeting of the Colombian Association of Neurological Surgeons, Armenia, Colombia, November 2004
Honor guest at the Annual Meeting of the Colombian Association of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Bogota, Colombia, May 2003
Clinical excellence award for the year 2002 from Medtronic/Midas Rex, 2002
Award for the most interesting scientific paper at the annual meeting of the Caribbean Association of Neurological Surgeons, 2002
Lou Grubb fellowship in Skull Base Anatomy, Barrow Neurological Institute, 2001
Clinical and teaching excellence award from the Hospital Rebagliati, Lima, Peru- 2000
Clinical and teaching excellence award from the Hospital G. Almenara, Lima, Peru- 1999
Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, 1997
Magna Cum Laude, Neurosurgical Training Diploma, University of Naples, 1996
Bruel & Kijel travelling fellowship award at the department of Neurosurgery at the Righospitalet in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1994
Resident award - 5/years European Community grant in Neurosurgery training program, University of Naples, Italy - 1991
