Professor of Neurological Surgery
Institute of Neurosurgery Asenjo
Santiago, Chile
Jorge Mura was born in Valdivia, Chile on December 24th, 1970. Attend the Medical School at the University of Chile in Santiago between 1988-1995. He made his internship in the Salvador Hospital and graduate cum laude. He made his residency at the Institute of Neurosurgery Alfonso Asenjo in Providencia, Santiago between 1995-1998 and graduate suma cum laude. He moved to São Paulo, Brazil the same year for a Clinical Fellowship in Cerebrovascular & Skull Base Surgery with the Professor Evandro de Oliveira team in the Institute of Neurological Sciences – Beneficencia Portuguesa Hospital between 1998-1999. He starts his academic career as Instructor of Neurosurgery in 1999. He creates in 2000 the first Fellowship Program in Cerebrovascular Surgery, in the year 2002 was incorporated the Skull Base Surgery Program and was created the Fellowship of CV & Skull Base Surgery at the Institute of Neurosurgery Asenjo, up-to-date 37 completed the 1 year program and 12 the 3-6 months abbreviated program; with neurosurgeons of Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Cuba, Argentina, Honduras, Venezuela, Spain and USA. He is member of 13 national and international neurosurgical societies. He was elected as President of the Chilean Society of Neurosurgery period 2021-2023. He participates in the editorial comittee of the official journals of neurosurgery in Chile, Brazil and Argentina. He gave more than 150 lectures about cerebrovascular and skull base surgery all around the world. He has more than 100 international publications, book chapters and peer-review comments. He has more than 175 presentations in national and international meetings in South America, México, USA and Europe. His experience as a neurosurgeon is about 4,100 brain surgeries. His experience in cerebrovascular surgery is approximately 1,700 patients. He participated in 1,500 aneurysms surgeries, with 1,424 clipped aneurysms. His experience in paraclinoid aneurysms is 442 cases up-to-date. He has performed 170 cerebral bypasses (low flow, high flow, EC-IC and IC-IC). He has experience in AVM is more than 150 cases. In skull base surgery he performed more than 600 complex skull base procedures: 300 Meningiomas of the cavernous Sinus, petroclival region, tubercullum sellae and other locations; more than 250 Schwannomas of the vestibular, trigeminal and low cranial nerves; Pituitary adenomas; Chondrosarcomas; etc. He performed more than 500 extradural anterior clinoidectomies, more than 200 middle fossa approaches and more than 100 traspetrous approaches. He was appointed in 2019 as a Professor of Neurological Surgery for the University of Chile, a huge honor that was empty since 1987. He was elected in October 2019 as the President of the Chilean Neurosurgery Society for the period 2021-2023. In October 16th, 2020 was appointed as “Master of Chilean Neurosurgery”, the fourth in the Chilean since 1957. He is Member of the Cerebrovascular Disease and Therapy Committee of the WFNS. His research in the last years is oriented to minimally invasive and keyhole and key-exposure complex cerebrovascular and skull base surgery, the treatment of ruptured aneurysms and microsurgical management of SAH complications, and the comprehensive neurosurgical involvement into the management of the acute cerebral ischaemia.
Extradural Minipretemporal Approach "MIPLATTA" for Complex Vascular and Skull Base Lesions
Friday, April 21, 2023
9:38am – 9:53am PST
Disclosure(s): Mizuho America: Royalty Recipient (Ongoing)