Specialist fields (in extracts)
- Vascular neurosurgery
- Skull base surgery (cerebellopontine angle, tumours)
- Endoscopic skull base surgery (hypophyseal adenomas)
- Brain tumours and brain metastases
- Degenerative spinal diseases and tumours of the spinal column and the spinal cord (slipped disc, spinal stenosis)
- Peripheral nerves
- Paediatric neurosurgery
- Craniocerebral trauma, spinal cord injury
- Neurosurgical intensive care medicine
- Neuroprosthetics
- Acoustic nerve neurinoma
- Neurofibromatis
- Meningioma
- Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation
- Facial spasm
- Trigemial neuralgia
- Acoustic nerve neurinoma
- NF2
- Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation
Curriculum vitae (in extracts)
| Professional Training and Professional Career: |
| March 1997 – July 1998 — Internship, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| August 1998 — Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Leipzig |
| September 1999 — Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| October 1999 – March 2003 — Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| April 2003 — Neurosurgical Board certification, Landesärztekammer Hessen, Frankfurt/Main |
| April 2003 – August 2004 — Attending, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Prof. Dr. V. Seifert |
| September 2004 — Consultant, Faculty Member |
| August 2007 – August 2008 — Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main |
| 1 September 2008 – 28 February 2013 — Head of the Department of vascular, functional and pediatric Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinics, Helios Klinikum Erfurt |
| 15.12.2008 — Program Director, Residency Training Program |
| 1.3.2013 — Co-Chairmen, Department of Neurosurgery, Helios Klinikum Erfurt |
| Medical Education: |
| February – March 1994 — Hospitation Department of Clinical Neuroscience der University of Edinburgh, Prof. J. D. Miller |
| March 1994 – September 1998 — Graduated magna cum laude (M.D.Thesis) |
| August 2000 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Amsterdam. «Vascular Diseases of the CNS» |
| August 2001 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Prag. «Brain Tumors and Pediatric Neurosurgery» |
| February 2002 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Bonn. «Functional Neurosurgery, Head Injury» |
| November – December 2002 — Hospitation Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Würzburg, Prof. Dr. N. Sörensen |
| February 2003 — European Course in Neurosurgery (EANS), Budapest. «Spine and peripheral nerves» |
| Postgraduate Training: |
| February 2004 — European Primary Examination in Neurosurgery, Budapest |
| December 2003 — Advanced AO Spine Course, Davos «Operative treatment of degenerative spine diseases»
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| July 2004 — Habilitation and Venia legendi (PhD in Neurosurgery), Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main |
| March 2006 — 7th Workshop: Endoscopic Pituitary Surgery, Bologna, Italy |
| September – November 2006 — Clinical Fellowship, Duke University North Carolina, Prof. Dr. Allan Friedman and Prof. Dr. Takanori Fukushima |
| December 2006 — Advanced AO Spine Course, Davos in Davos «Operative treatment of spinal trauma und complex tumours» |
| January 2007 — 7th Annual International Congress on Cerebral Revascularization, St Louis, MO, USA |
| October 2009 — Appointment as a Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty Goethe University Frankfurt/ Main |
Contributions
| Acta Neurochirurgica |
| Anesthesiology |
| Neurology India |
| Neuropsychobiology |
| Neuroscience |
| Neurosurgery |
| Neurosurgical Review |
| Pediatric Blood and Cancer |
| Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift |
| Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie |
Extra information
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Awards: |
| November 2003 — Award Neuroscientific Society, Frankfurt/ Main
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| May 2006 — «Tönnis Award», German Society of Neurosurgery
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Memberships
| November 1999 — German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) |
| May 2005 — The German Society of Skull Base Surgery |
| November 2005 — The German Society of Endocrinology (DGE) |
| January 2005 — Congress of Neurological Surgeons |
| September 2007 — International Society of Pituitary Surgeons |
| October 2007 — The German Association of University Professors and Lecturers |
| January 2009 — The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) |
| August 2013 — The Professional Association of German Neurosurgeons |
| Executive functions: |
| June 2006 – October 2013 — Member of the scientific advisory board, German Speaking Skull Base Society |
| October 2013 – October 2015 — Treasurer, German Speaking Skull Base Society and Member oft he executive Board |
| October 2015 — General Secretary, German Spoken Skull Base Society |
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