Josep Dalmau Obrador
Josep Dalmau Obrador
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NeuroimmunologyI am a neurologist specialising in Neuro-oncology, paraneoplastic syndromes and autoimmune encephalitis. I have discovered 10 autoimmune diseases, known as autoimmune encephalopathies, measured by anti-protein antibodies and cerebral receptors, including anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. I have spent a large part of my professional career in the United States where I worked for over 25 years. The projects I have led include research into paraneoplastic syndromes, autoimmune encephalitis and brain tumours, which I started at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and have developed more recently at the University of Pennsylvania. I lead the Clinical and Experimental Autoimmune Encephalitis Neuroimmunology group of the Instituto de Investigación Biomédica August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) at Hospital Clínic, the University of Barcelona and the Neuroimmunology Unit of SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital. I am an ICREA Investigator (Barcelona), an Associate Lecturer in Medicine at the University of Barcelona, and a Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2017, I have been chair of the Autoimmune Neurology Department of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and editor of the same Academy's scientific journal, Neurology, Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation. I am also a member of several scientific societies, including the American Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the American Neurological Association (ANA), the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN), the Catalan Society of Neurology (SCN), the French Society of Neurology (SFN), the European School of Neuroimmunology (ESNI) and the International Society of Neuroimmunology (ISNI).