Laura Oleaga
MD, PhD
Medicine
Radiology, Neuroradiology
Barcelona, Spain
Scientific Director, Chief Radiologist,
Dr. Laura Oleaga has significant experience both as a radiologist and in medical education. She is the former Chair of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) education committee. Currently, she is the Scientific Director of the European Radiology Diploma (EDIR), and since 2009 Chair of the Radiology Department at University Hospital Clinic (Barcelona, Spain). Her main scientific interests lie in the fields of neuroradiology and head and neck imaging. She has authored and co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and seven book chapters. She is also an active teacher at many prestigious universities, scientific meetings, and courses.
Professor Laura Oleaga received her medical degree from the School of Medicine at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She completed her training in radiology at the Hospital Donostia in San Sebastian and then trained as a Research Fellow in magnetic resonance imaging at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Radiology. She then went on to serve as a specialist in magnetic resonance imaging at the Hospital of Basurto, Bilbao.
Professor Oleaga obtained her Ph.D. in medicine from the University of the Basque Country, Spain, in 1998. Since 2008, she has worked as a neuroradiologist at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and served as a Professor of Radiology at the University of Barcelona. In 2009 she was appointed Chair of the Radiology Department at the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona.