Clinical Focus:

? Intracranial and Spinal tumor surgery

? Skull base surgery

? Spine surgery

Work Experience:

? Since 2003, Full Professor and Director of the Neurosurgical Clinic, Heidelberg University Hospital

? 1995 - 2003    Deputy Director of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, Charité, Humboldt University Berlin

? 1991 - 2003    Professor of Neurosurgery, FU Berlin and Humboldt University Berlin

Awards：

? 1995 Investigator Award, International Neurotrauma Society

? 1988 Upjohn Award for Neurosurgical Research, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)

? 1983 E.K.-Frey-Award, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internistische Intensivmedizin

Membership:

? President of German Society of Neurosurgery

? Member of the Executive Board of The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

? President of The German Society for NeuroIntensive and Emergency Medicine (DGNI)

? Euro-Academy of Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology

Important and Frequently Cited Publications:

? EBIC guidelines for management of severe head injury in adults

? Role of bedside microdialysis in the diagnosis of cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

? Edema and brain trauma

? Surgical treatment of intracerebral hemorrhage

? Stem cell marker CD133 affects clinical outcome in glioma patients

More than 300 other original publications in peer-reviewed international journals, numerous book articles, books and monographs