Roberto C. Heros, M.D.

Professor, Co-Chaiman & Program Director

tel: 305-243-6946

For Patients

Board Certifications
American Board of Neurological Surgery

Practice Locations
Lois Pope Life Center

Languages Spoken
English

Education
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA 		Fellowship 1994
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA 		Fellowship 1992
Massachussetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 		Residency 1977
Massachussetts General Hospital
Boston, MA 		Assistant Resident 1970
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 		M.D. 1968
Southwestern at Memphis
Memphis, TN 		Pre-Med 1964

Roberto C. Heros was born in 1942 in Havana, Cuba. After the Communist takeover in 1960, he left Cuba for exile. He participated as a paratrooper platoon commander in the Bay of Pigs invasion and was captured. After serving two years in prison, Dr. Heros was released as a result of an exchange with the United States Government. He attended medical school at the University of Tennessee where he graduated, first in his class, in 1968.

Dr. Heros had his internship and his first year general surgery residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and then served in the US Air Force as Major for two years. He then completed his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and then moved to the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor. He moved back to Massachusetts General Hospital in 1980 to become Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery. Dr. Heros moved through the academic ranks at Harvard to reach full professorship in 1989 at which time he moved to the University of Minnesota as the Lyle A. French Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Heros moved to the University of Miami in 1995 as Professor, Co-Chairman and Program Director of the Department of Neurosurgery and the founding Director of the University of Miami International Health Center.

Dr. Heros has authored or co-authored four textbooks and has published about 150 refereed articles and approximately 70 textbook chapters dealing with cerebral aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, experimental cerebral ischemia and skull base surgical approaches. His research has been in the area of cerebral protection from ischemia, particularly with hemodilution; he held NIH funding as primary investigator in this area for twelve years and served both in Study Sections and later as a full member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke (1995-1998).

Dr. Heros has been Visiting Professor at over 50 institutions in this country and abroad and he has given over 500 invited national and international presentations. He holds honorary memberships in several Latin American and European neurosurgical societies and is also Honorary Member of the Japan Neurosurgical Society. He has been Chairman of the Editorial Board of Neurosurgery and currently serves on the Editorial Board of seven journals including the Journal of Neurosurgery. He was the founding Chairman of the Neurovascular Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies and is Past President of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons and the American Association of Neurological Surgery. He will be the Honored Guest of the Federation of Latin American Neurosurgical Societies this year and of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons next year. He has been elected as the President of the Congress of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies which will take place in Boston in 2009.