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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Focus: Trigeminal neuralgia and deep brain stimulation
  • Functional neurosurgery and stereotaxy
  • Neuromodulation
  • Neurosurgical pain treatment

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

Education and Work Experience

since 09/2023 Senior physician, Clinic for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Helios Hospital Krefeld (Uerdingen)
03/2015 - 08/2023 Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery and Senior Physician of the Functional Neurosurgery and Stereotaxy Section, Düsseldorf University Hospital
02/2014 - 12/2014
Stay abroad: Department of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, University of British Columbia, BC, Canada (Prof. Chris Honey, MD, DPhil)
05/2013 Specialist examination for neurosurgery
from 03/2007
Assistant physician for neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Düsseldorf
11/2006 Third state examination
from 05/2006
Practical year, Evangelical Hospital, Oldenburg
03/2004
Neurological clinical traineeship, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
08/2003 Cardiothoracic surgery traineeship. University of Göttingen
from 04/2000
Studies in human medicine, August-Wilhelm-University, Göttingen

Scientific Career

12/2022 Appointment as adjunct professor of neurosurgery by the medical faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
06/2017
Awarded the prize of the German Society for Neurosurgery for the best lecture in the field of neuromodulation
07/2016
Habilitation at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in the field of neurosurgery with the topic "Neuromodulation in Chronic Pain Disorders"
06/2015
Again awarded the prize of the German Society for Neurosurgery for the best lecture in the field of interventional pain therapy
06/2013
Wilhelm Tönnis Scholarship of the German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC)
06/2013
Award of the German Society for Neurosurgery for the best lecture in the field of interventional pain therapy
04/2013
Travel grant from the German Society of Neurosurgery for the joint meeting with the French Society of Neurosurgery (SFNC)
02/2012
Written exam at the end of the four-year course of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
06/2010
PhD on the topic "The d-Aminolaevulinic acid supported photodynamic therapy of human gliomas in-vitro and in-vivo" under Prof. Dr. W. Stummer and Prof. Dr. J. Vesper at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
11/2002

Collaboration in the Department of Cytopathology at the University of Göttingen on the topic "DNA repair and cell cycle regulation in cerebral metastases of malignant melanomas" in the working group of Dr. med Monika Korabiowska

Contributions

Extra information

  • Experience as secretary in organizing international conferences and meetings (DBS World Congress 2016 and 2020, DGNM Annual Meeting 2016 and 2017)

Memberships

  • German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC),
  • German Society for Neurointensive Medicine (DGNI), 
  • Working Group for Deep Brain Stimulation (AG-THS),
  • International Neuromodulation Society (INS),
  • Extended board and treasurer of the German Society for Neuromodulation (DGNM)
  • Ethics Committee of the Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf

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