Neurosurgery: Neurosurgery. Treatment in Germany

• Study of medicine at the Universities of Regensburg and Würzburg.
• 1993 Thesis defense.
• 2001 Assistant Professorship.
• Work in the Department and Polyclinic of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Würzburg.
• Work in the Neuro-oncology Laboratory in Washington, D.C.
• Work in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.
• 2009 - 2009 Prof. Goldbrunner accepted the offer to lead the Department of Neurosurgery and to become the Managing Director of the Neurosurgery Center at the University Hospital Cologne.   

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• since 2007  Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, Charité
• since 2006  Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg
• 2001 - 2006 Senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Mannheim University Hospital, University Heidelberg
• 1995 - 2001 Residency, Department of Neurosurgery, Mannheim University Hospital (Prof. Peter Schmiedek)
• 1992 - 1996 PhD thesis, Institute for Surgical Research, University Hospital Grosshadern, University of Munich
• 1988 - 1995 Studies in medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich

Activities in the scientific community, honors, awards

• 2003   Young Neurosurgeon Research Award of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)
• 2003   Wolfgang Hoffmeister Award, Faculty of Medicine for Clinical Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg
• 2002   Research Award, German Academy of Neurosurgery
• 2001   Hemedex Pioneer Investigator Award
• 2001   Hermann Rein Prize, German Association for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology
• 1998   Aesculap Research Award, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
• 1998   Pharmacia & Upjohn Young Investigator Award, American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
• 1998   Travel Award, American Association of Cancer Research (A ACR)
• 1990 - 1995 Scholarship, German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

Reasearch focus

• Angiogenesis
• Microcirculation
• Acute and chronic ischemia
• Oncology
• Endothelial Cell Biology

• 1972-1978 Medizinstudium an den Universitäten Zürich und Genf, zusätzlich 2 Semester Informatik an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule Zürich
• 1978 Staatsexamen in Zürich und Visa Qualifying Examination für die USA in Paris
• 1979 Promotion in Zürich, Thema: „Internuclear neurons in the abducens nucleus“
• 1979-1984 Klinische Ausbildung zum Neurochirurgen in der Schweiz, USA und Kanada
• 1983 Auszeichnung mit dem Janggen-Pöhn-Stipendium, St. Gallen
• 1985 Facharztdiplom für Neurochirurgie, Schweiz
• 1985-1993 Oberarzt, ab 1990 stellv. Direktor an der Neurochirurgischen Universitätsklinik Bern
• 1992 Habilitation an der Universität Bern zum Thema: Pathophysiologie zerebraler Aneurysmen
• 1992 Forschungsstipendium Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
• 1994 Berufung als Professor (C3) an die Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, verbunden mit der Leitung des Bereiches Neurovaskuläre Chirurgie
• 2002 Berufung auf die C4-Professur für Neurochirurgie der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Amtsantritt zum 1.1.2003
• Professor Hans-Jakob Steiger ist Mitglied in einer Anzahl von Fachgesellschaften und wissenschaftlichen Reviewing Boards. Seit 2002 ist er Direktor der Neurochirurgischen Klinik.

Prof. Dr. med. Walter Stummer, Chief Physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Münster since 2009, is the president of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) with about 1600 participants.

Until 2009, Prof. Stummer worked at the University Hospital Düsseldorf. He specializes in the treatment of brain tumors and vascular neurosurgery. Previously, Prof. Stummer was the Press Secretary of the Neuro-Oncology Section of the DGNC, a member of the program committees of various professional societies, the Deputy Chairman of the Neuro-Oncological Working Group of the German Cancer Society and the Vice-President of the DGNC.

In 2013, Prof. Stummer was one of three global experts selected for the International Congress of Neurosurgeons in London to demonstrate modern surgical techniques in the field of brain surgery. In addition to the operation performed live in the University Hospital Münster, photographs of interventions from San Francisco and Montpellier were shown.

Prof. Dr. med. Walter Stummer is recognized as an expert in the treatment of brain tumors and is included in the rating of the best German neurosurgeons according to the FOCUS magazine in 2017! He was awarded numerous national and international awards and honors.

• 1988 - 1995 Medical education at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
• 25/06/1998 Doctoral Thesis: "The Experimental Vasogenic Cerebral Oedema: Therapeutic Inhibition with the Cl–Transport Inhibitor Torasemide, the Neuropeptide-Y-Antagonist PP56 and -Tocopherol", summa cum laude.
• 15/05/2003 Medical Specialist in Neurosurgery.
• 07/07/2004 Thesis, Venia Legendi for Neurosurgery at the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Bonn.
• 21/08/2004 EANS European Examination (Part 1).
• 11/12/2009 Additional Qualification in Spinal Neurosurgery by the NCAFW.
• 07/07/2010 Associate Professor at the Technical University of Munich.
• 16/05/2012 Voluntary postgraduate training, Special Neurosurgical Intensive Care.
• 10/04/2013 Additional qualification, Vascular Neurosurgery by the NCAFW.
• 22/08/2014 Master Certificate of the German Spinal Surgery Society (DWG).

Professional Career

• 5/95 - 2/97 Research Fellowship, Institute for Surgical Research (Head: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. K. Messmer), Clinic Großhadern, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
• 9/96 - 1/97 Research cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Technique, St. Ingbert (Head: Prof. Dr. K. Gersonde).
• 3/97 - 2/06 Attending Resident, Department of Neurosurgery of the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (Head: Prof. Dr. J. Schramm).
• 7 - 8/99 Physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Mannheim (Head: Prof. Dr. P. Schmiedek).
• Since 10/04 Senior Physician.
• Since 9/05 Head of the Section for Spinal Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn.
• Since 3/06 Deputy Head, Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich (Head: Prof. Dr. B. Meyer).
• Since 8/11 Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery, HELIOS Clinic Krefeld.

Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn und Forschungsgebiete

• Prof. Meyers (*1962) Forschungsgebiete sind im Bereich der vaskulären, onkologischen und spinalen Neurochirurgie.
• Prof. Meyer studierte an den Universitäten Padua/Italien, Erlangen-Nürnberg Humanmedizin mit Auslandsaufenthalten an der Northwestern University, Chicago sowie der State University of New York, Brooklyn. 
• Staatsexamen und Promotion folgten am Institut für Humangenetik der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg im Jahre 1989 mit anschließender Ausbildung zum Neurochirurgen in Tübingen, Duisburg, Bonn mit Auslandsaufenthalten in Zürich/CH und Phönix AZ/USA. 
• 1995 wurde Prof. Meyer Facharzt für Neurochirurgie und Oberarzt an der Neurochirurgischen Universitätsklinik Bonn, wo er 1999 habilitierte und 2001 auf die Professur für Neurochirurgie berufen wurde. 
• Seit 2006 hat Prof. Meyer den Lehrstuhl für Neurochirurgie der Technischen Universität München inne.

Wichtigste Auszeichnungen

• Präsident der Wirbelsäulensektion der European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2010)
• Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Akademie für Neurochirurgie (2009)

• 1990 Medical qualification at the Free University of Berlin, Germany.
• 1992 Medical Degree (MD)
• 2006 Professor Degree, Academic Lecturer in Neurosurgery, University of Giessen, Germany.
• Neurosurgical Training in subspecializations, EANS and ESPN training in Bielefeld, Germany and Zürich, Switzerland.
• Since 2010 Chief Physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Vivantes Neukölln Hospital, Berlin, Germany.