Residency: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Why Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic is a world-renowned hospital with a tremendous neurosurgical skull base team led by Drs. Link, Van Gompel and Peris-Celda. Their multidisciplinary approach to the care of complex skull base lesions promotes the best possible patient outcomes. The mixture of both open lateral and endoscopic anterior skull base approaches as part of the training was exactly what I was looking for in a fellowship.

Residency: Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Why Mayo Clinic: My family comes from a rural part of Spain (Valle del Tormes, Ávila) but I was born and raised near the capital, Madrid. I attended medical school at the European University of Madrid and did a neurosurgery residency in the Hospital La Paz in Madrid. Early in my training, I became very interested in skull base, oncology, and digital transformation in medicine, especially the potential impact of artificial intelligence in the form of machine learning for decision-making in complex pathologies. After graduating, I came to the United States to complete a fellowship in Complex Cranial Surgery at Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, Pennsylvania. It was during this time that I unraveled my passion for minimally invasive skull base surgery, which ultimately lead me to Mayo Clinic.