Preferential dedication to neuropathies, myopathies and motor neuron disease.
Dr. Jesús Esteban specialized in Neurology at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre in Madrid, and later specialized in neuromuscular diseases at the “Cecil B Day laboratory for neuromuscular diseases” at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, USA).
Upon his return, he began research studies on familial ALS in Spain and started a monographic practice at the Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre.
For more than 25 years he has had a special dedication to the study and treatment of muscle diseases( inflammatorymyopathies, musculardystrophies, metabolic myopathies, toxic myopathies ), neuro-muscular junction diseases (myasthenia gravis, Eaton-Lambert’s syndrome and other myastheniform diseases) and neuropathies (focal neuropathies, polyneuropathy, polyradiculopathies).
More specifically, he develops his activity in the diagnosis, treatment and research of the causes of motor neuron diseases, especially sporadic and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery
- Autonomous University of Madrid, 1982
- Neurology Specialist
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 1984-1988 - Assistant Neurologist
Hospital General, Guadalajara,1988-1990 - Assistant Neurologist
Hospital de Investigación Clínica Carlos III, Madrid 1990-1992 y 1995 - Research Fellow
Cecil B Day laboratory for neuromuscular diseases. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA 1992-1994 - Assistant Neurologist
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 1995-2006 - Assistant Neurologist, Clinical Neurology Program
Hospital Ruber Internacional, Madrid since 1995. - Master’s Degree in Neurological Electrodiagnosis, University of Barcelona, 2004-2005
- EMG training certification from the Spanish Society of Neurology, 2005.
- Director of the ALS Multidisciplinary Unit and ALS Research Laboratory
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 2007 - Neuromuscular Section Coordinator
Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid 2011
- Since 1988 Member of the Spanish Society of Neurology.
- Since 2003 Member of the World Federation of Neurology/amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis WFN/ALS
- Since 2007 Member of the European ALS Research Consortium, EURALS
- Since 2006 Researcher of the CIBERER group (for research on Rare Diseases).
- Since 1996 Member of the Neuromuscular Diseases and Neurogenetics Study Group of the Spanish Society of Neurology (SEN).
- 2008-2010 Member of the Neuromuscular Diseases Study Group.
