Physician · Médico
Omar Villa Robledo, MD
Research in neurophysiology · Investigación en neurofisiología
Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “Manuel Velasco Suárez”, Mexico City
Posters · Pósters
Contact · Contacto
- Institutional emailvilla.omar@uabc.edu.mx
- Emailcontact@villarobledo.me
- ORCID0009-0006-8968-9837
About me
I am a Mexican physician (MD, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California) doing a research placement in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “Manuel Velasco Suárez” in Mexico City.
I am pursuing a General Surgery residency in the United States and aim to build a career as a surgeon-scientist. I am also looking for research internships in surgery, where I can contribute to clinical and translational projects.
Brief CV
- EducationMD, Facultad de Medicina y Nutrición, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC), Mexicali
- CurrentResearch placement, Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía “Manuel Velasco Suárez”, Mexico City
- ResearchNeuroscience and epilepsy: bench work on c-Src and Wnt/β-catenin signaling in a rat kindling model with caloric restriction; evidence synthesis, including a systematic review and meta-analysis of surgical outcomes in drug-resistant epilepsy (in progress) and a bibliometric analysis of non-pharmacological epilepsy treatments.
- PublicationsCo-author of a 2026 article in Neuroglia on Huntington’s disease as a neuroglial systems disorder, and contributor to additional neuroscience manuscripts.
- Technical skillsPerioperative care and monitoring in rodent models (ESP32-based monitoring web app in MicroPython); meta-analysis in R (metafor, GRADE); Scopus and VOSviewer; Python.
Open to conversations with surgery programs and research groups: contact@villarobledo.me