Dr. Vlad Adrian Pădurean

Career

Dr. Vlad Adrian Pădurean graduated in Medicine from the Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He completed his neurosurgery residency between 2019 and 2024 at the Neurosurgery Clinic of the Cluj County Emergency Clinical Hospital, where he was chief resident in his final year, in charge of the residents' on-call rota and training sessions.

Since 2025 he has worked as a specialist neurosurgeon in Spain. In Palma he operated, looked after inpatients and ran his own clinic, first at Clínica Rotger and Hospital Quirónsalud Palmaplanas and then at Clínica Juaneda and Hospital Juaneda Miramar. He is now part of the Brain & Spine team in Barcelona.

Clinical focus

At Brain & Spine he runs the immediate consultation. It is a short visit within 24 hours of your request: he listens to you, reviews any scans you have and gives you a first working diagnosis and the next steps.

He has training in microsurgical and neuroanatomical dissection, and in October 2026 he completed the endoscopic spine surgery course run by Grupo Policlínica and Neurotrom Academy in Ibiza.

Research and teaching

He is working on his PhD at the Iuliu Hațieganu University. He has co-authored papers in Diagnostic Pathology, on prognosis in glioblastoma, and in Turkish Neurosurgery, on anatomical variants of the circle of Willis and the morphometry of the brainstem.

Between 2023 and 2024 he taught neurosurgery to medical students as an associate lecturer at his university. He has presented cases and talks at the Neurosurgical Masterclass in Cluj-Napoca, the National Congress of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery and the pre-congress course of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) in 2022.