Miguel Sarrias Domingo
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Miguel Sarrias Domingo (19 January 1930 - 2002) was Medical Director of the Instiut Guttmann in Barcelona, Spain.
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[edit] Early years
Miguel Sarrias Domingo was born in Barcelona on January 19, 1930, and he qualified in medicine and surgery at the University of Barcelona in 1955. Between 1958 and 1961 he studied under Dr Josep Trueta, professor of orthopedic surgery in Oxford, where he specialized in orthopedic surgery and traumatology.
[edit] Institut Guttmann
In 1964 it was suggested to him by Mr Guillermo Gonzalez Gilbey that he should become the medical director of a hospital - the first of its kind in Spain - dedicated to the treatment of people with paraplegic and tetraplegic injuries. He spent 7 months at Stoke Mandeville hospital in England studying under Dr Ludwig Guttmann where he learned the specialized treatment of people with spinal cord lesions.
The new hospital was opened on November 27th 1965 and named after Sir Ludwig Guttmann, as the Institut Guttmann, Spinal Cord Injuries Centre
From then until his retirement in 1997, Dr Sarrias directed the work of the hospital, bringing it from obscure beginnings to national importance. His leadership was characterized by rigorous adherence to the best medical practice, a human understanding of his patients, and a constant capacity to explore new ways of treating patients, most notably, for example, in his promoting of the 'Barcelona technique' for the implantation of SARS (Sacral anterior roots electro stimulation).
In addition, he developed a programme for the training of new specialists, and he enthusiastically supported the advancement of the subject and its academic societies both in Spain and internationally.
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He was the Spanish representative of IMSOP (The International Medical Society of Paraplegia), and he was both the initiator and president of SEP (Spanish Society of Paraplegia). He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Paraplegia-Spinal Cord. In 1992 he organized the 'IMSOP Annual Scientific Meeting' in Barcelona coinciding with the Paralympic Games; in the same year he was awarded the gold medal of the Club Européen de Santé and was elected a life member of the Academie Médicale Européene de Readaptation.
