Brief Bio
After having attended two years of Engineering at the Escola Politécnica Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (University of São Paulo Polytechnic School), Professor Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas obtained his medical degree from the Escola Paulista de Medicina (Paulista School of Medicine) of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Federal University of São Paulo), in São Paulo, SP, Brazil, in 1977, did his neurosurgical residency in the Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da USP (Hospital of Clinics of the University of São Paulo Medical School) under Professor Gilberto Machado de Almeida (1978-1981), and at the Department of
Neurosurgery of the University of Virginia, under Professor John A. Jane (1981-1982), and did a brief research fellowship at Professor Albert Rhoton Jr.’ microneurosurgery laboratory at the University of Florida, in 1985. He was Board Certified in Neurosurgery by the Sociedade Brasileira de Neurocirurgia – SBN (Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery) in 1984.
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At the Faculdade de Medicina da USP (University of São Paulo Medical School) he obtained his Doctorship degree in Neurology in 1991, the degree of Privat Docent Professor of Surgery in 2005, and in 2007 was approved in second place among three candidates, hence not designated, in a public exam to choose the chairman of the Discipline of Neurosurgery of the Dept. of Neurology of the University of São Paulo Medical School. He was responsible for applied neuroanatomy graduate courses at the Clinical Anatomy Discipline of the Department of Surgery, from 1994 to 2012. From 2002 to 2016 he was a Post-Graduate Advisor at the Post-Graduate program of the Dept. of Surgery of the University of São Paulo Medical School. His laboratory research done at this department and along his neurosurgical practice is focused on microneurosurgical anatomy and on cranial neurosurgical techniques, and overall he published more than 50 articles, wrote more than 40 book chapters, and joined the publication of 3 books.
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Since 1995 he teaches surgical neuroanatomy at the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Virginia, where in 1997 he was appointed Visiting Professor of Neurosurgery. Since 2005 he is co-director and lecturer of the yearly “Cambridge Lectures in Neurosurgical Anatomy” at the University of Cambridge, England, organized by its Department of Neurosurgery. In 2018 he had the privilege of having the eminent Professor Robert Spetzler from Phoenix, US, as a co-lecturer, at the traditional Queens College founded in 1448.
From 2003 to 2012 he lectured at the Annual Microanatomy Courses of the Microsurgical Laboratory of the Hospital Beneficência Portuguesa (Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital) of São Paulo, Brazil, and at the Courses Sulci, Gyri, Ventricles and Dissecting Fibers of the Universidade do Minho (University of Minho), in Braga, Portugal. From 2011 to 2019 he lectured at the Annual SNI Brain Anatomy with Neurosurgical Applications Course of the Seattle Science Foundation / Swedish Neuroscience Institute, in Seattle, USA. Since 2012 he is one of the invited professors to give yearly lectures at the “Advanced Techniques in Neurosurgical Oncology, and since 2021 also of the hands-on brain’ dissection practical courses of the International Association for Mapping the Brain (IamBrain.org), both organized by Mr. George Samandouras of the Dept. of Neurosurgery of The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery – Queen Square and University College London, in London, England.
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Other than these annual courses and participations in national and international meetings he also lectured as visiting professor in the departments of neurosurgery of Temple University in Philadelphia, USA (1998), UCSF University of California in San Francisco, USA (2007), Sapienza Universiy in Rome, Italy (2009), University of Malasia in Kuala Lumpur, Malasia (2017), National University Hospital of Singapore (2017), and Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel (2018) among others.
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In March 2018 he had the privilege to be the Grand Rounds Lecturer of the Stanford University Department of Neurosurgery, USA.
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In April 2019 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto where he gave the 2019 prestigious Harland-Smith Lecture.
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In December 2018 he gave 3D lectures at the 3rd Huashan Course in Shangai, China, which were repeated in August 2023 at the 8th Helan Mountain Conference in Yinchuan, China.
He is a pionner of stereoscopic publications in neurosurgical journals (Journal of Neurosurgery, December 2001, with its cover illustration), and his lectures are mostly given with 3D techniques since 1995.
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By occasion of the publication of the 30th Neurosurgery Anniversary Commemorative Edition Supplement, his article: Ribas GC, et al. Surgical anatomy of microneurosurgical sulcal key-points. Neurosurgery. 2006;(ONS Suppl4):ONS-177-ONS-209, fruit of his main line of study and research, was considered the first Selected Reference of the topic Anatomy.
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In 2010 he had the distinction of having had his article The Cerebral Sulci and Gyri as the most accessed article of the whole Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group during this year (5573 accesses).
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In October 2015 it was published the 41st edition of the classical textbook Gray’s Anatomy, where he had the privilege of having contributed with the chapter Cerebral Hemispheres.
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In March 2018 he had his book Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy: Brain Architecture and Anatomically Oriented Microneurosurgery published by the prestigious Cambridge University Press.
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His main lectures are available in YouTube through the Seattle Science Foundation, and have an average of more than 10.000 views.
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Among his participations in medical journals, he was a member of the editorial staff of the Revista Diagnóstico e Tratamento (Diagnostic and Treatment Journal, of the Paulista Society of Medicine), 1996; of the Revista do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da USP (Journal of the Clinics Hospital and Medical School of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo), 2005; of the Neurosurgical Focus (electronic branch of the Journal of Neurosurgery), 2007; and of the Journal of Neurosurgery Video Supplement, 2011. He has been an active reviewer for Neurosurgery since 2004, for World Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Review since 2011, for Scientific Reports-Springer Nature since 2021 and for Cortex since 2023.
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Among his participations in medical societies he belongs to the Sociedade Brasileira de Neurocirurgia – SBN (Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery) since 1986, was one of the founders of the Sociedade de Neurocirurgia do Estado de São Paulo – SONESP – (Society of Neurosurgeons of São Paulo State) in 1996, is an International Member of the Congress of the Neurological Surgeons – CNS, 2003, and in In March 2015 was appointed and accepted as a member of the prestigious World Academy of Neurological Surgery – WANS, which enrols a total of only 100 Active members with each country entitled to one member with an additional membership for every 1000 neurosurgeons in that country, and which will move from Active to Senior status after seven years.
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In december 2023 was one of the Founding Members of the Yasargil Microneurosurgery Academy.
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As selected awards and honors: Award of Best Paper Presented in the ICRAN-1984 – given by the “Neurotraumatology Committee of the World Federation of the Neurosurgical Societies”, Montevideo, Uruguay, November 6, 1984, with the paper “Head injury management protocol – Ribas GC, Gherpelli JD, Lucas FJC”; Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of the 78th Annual Scientific Congress of the Australasian College of Surgeons, Brisbane, Australia, May 2009; Keynote Speaker of the Israel Neurosurgical Society Annual Meeting in Galilion, Israel, May 2019; Preferred Neurosurgeon, chosen in the poll “The physicians the physicians refer” done among academic and distinguished physicians of São Paulo, Brazil, by the weekly magazine Veja, October 17, 2007; one of the 14 most respected doctors in the Specialty Neurosurgery, chosen in a brazilian nationwide poll among physicians: “The most admired in Medicine, by the magazine Análise, 2008.
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In August 2022 he was nominated Invited Full Professor of the Albert Einstein Medical School, of São Paulo, Brazil.
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In September 2022 he received the honorable title of “Emeritus Member of the Brazilian Society of Neurosurgery” for his services rendered to Brazilian neurosurgery.
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His practice of neurosurgery is done at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, Brazil, and, although general, it is more particularly focused in intrinsic and extrinsic brain tumors surgery.