Meet Dr. Barrios

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What makes him a world-leading expert in his field? 

Dr. Barrios completed his orthopedic training at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre at Oxford, a world-renowned center of excellence.
 

Dr. Barrios later pursued a fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA, an internationally renowned center for excellence, and worked in the Adult Reconstructive Surgery Service under the direction of the late Dr. Hugh Chandler.

He completed a spinal surgery fellowship at Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA under the direction of Professor Andrew King. Dr. Barrios also holds specialist registration with the United Kingdom General Medical Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS Ed) and of the European Board of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (FEBOT).

Dr. Barrios has an extensive academic background, has done basic science research and completed a Doctorate program (PhD) at the University of Navarra, Spain.

 He has been awarded two national prizes by the Spanish Society of Orthopaedic Surgery (SECOT) for clinical research and has participated as a researcher in the Spanish Multicenter Study for Osteoporosis and the European Musculo-skeletal Society (EMSOS) study in Desmoid tumors. The Orthopaedics/Rheumatology Digest (November 1993 USA) selected one of his papers as an outstanding publication.
 

Dr. Barrios has published more than 30 articles in peer review journals, 3 book chapters, and has done more than 70 presentations in specialty meetings in Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, United States of America, Portugal, France, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada, Turkey, Portugal, and Holland.

He has been awarded a travelling fellowship by the AO-ASIF (Association for the Study of International Fixation) Davos, Switzerland, and has visited trauma centers in Germany, Thailand, United States of America, Switzerland, and Singapore.
 

Due to his work, he has been awarded the Lester Lowe Prize in Bombay, India by SICOT (Societé Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de Traumatologie, Brussels, Belgique).

He was also granted a green card (alien of extraordinary ability) by the US Department of Justice-Immigration and Naturalization Service (AO46122726).