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Specialist fields (in extracts)

  • Neurooncology (tumors of the brain: gliomas, metastases)
  • Neurovascular surgery (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, Jannetta etc.; skull base tumors: vestibular schwannoma etc.)
  • Spinal surgeries of all pathologies (degenerative, tumorous, infectious, metabolic, traumatic spine disease incl. entire spine, ventral surgeries and complex reconstructive dorsoventral procedures)

Curriculum vitae (in extracts)

Education
1992 – 1999 — Medical School, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
Doctoral Thesis
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Academic title: Doctor medicinae (Dr. med.)
Professorial Dissertation (Habilitation)
«Neuroprotective Effects and Signaling Pathways of New Therapeutics in Experimental Brain Lesions by in vivo and in vitro Ischemic and Traumatic Brain Injury», Medical Faculty, Technische Universität, München, Germany. Academic title: Privatdozentin (PD)
Professional career
1999 – 2010 — Department of Neurosurgery with Professor JM Gilsbach, MD, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Germany
2005 — Board Certification Neurosurgery, Medical Association Northrhine (ÄKNO), Germany
2010 – 2019 — Attending neurosurgeon and Vice Chair Department of Neurosurgery with Professor Bernhard Meyer, MD, Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich, Germany
Since 2019 — Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Helios-Klinikum Berlin-Buch, Germany

Certification

Facultative training in Intensive Care Medicine
Basic Certificate Spine, DWG
Master Certificate Spine, DWG
Certificate Spinal Neurosurgery, DGNC
Certificate Special Neurosurgical Oncology, DGNC
Qualification Radiation Protection

Academic activities

70+ scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals/books etc
20+ publications in peer-reviews journals as first/last author
200+ Impact factors
Hirsch Index 15
Acta Orthopaedica & Traumatologica Turcica
BMC Musculosceletal Disorders
BMC Neurology
Central European Neurosurgery (JNLS-A)
Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery
Journal of Pain Research
Neurosurgical Review
PLoS ONE
Progress in Orthopedic Science
Scientific Reports
The Spine Journal
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
World Neurosurgery
Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie

Contributions

DGNC (German Society for Neurosurgery)
DWG (German Spine Society)
DKG (German Cancer Society, Neurooncological Working Group)
CNS (Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
AOSpine
EANS (European Association of Neurological Surgeons)
EORTC
EUROSPINE
NCA (Neurosurgical Academy)
Scientific Committee of the EANS
NCA (Neurosurgical Academy) Certification Committee
Education Committee EUROSPINE
Scientific Committee of the Spine Section (DGNC)

Extra information

5000 surgical procedures
1500 cranial surgeries, incl. neurooncology (tumors of the brain: gliomas, metastases), neurovascular surgery (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, Jannetta etc.; skull base tumors: vestibular schwannoma etc.)
1800 spinal surgeries of all pathologies (degenerative, tumorous, infectious, metabolic, traumatic spine disease incl. entire spine, ventral surgeries and complex reconstructive dorsoventral procedures)
Research Award 2018 of the Austrian Spine Society ÖWG
IPCAI Bench to Bedside Award
Acta Neurochirurgica Best Paper of the Year in Spine 2017
Young academics price (Nachwuchspreis) of the DWG

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