Carlos Rodríguez Aceves
Carlos A. Rodríguez Aceves
Neurocirujano
Cirugía de Nervios Periféricos
Coordinador Clínica de Nervio Periférico
Centro Neurolgógico ABC
Past Continental Vice-chairman Peripheral Nerve Committee
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies WFNS
Secretario Capítulo de Nervios Periféricos
Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Neurocirugía FLANC
Ex Presidente Sección Cirugía de Nervios Periféricos
Sociedad Mexicana de Cirugía Neurológica SMCN
Ex Presidente Capítulo de Nervios Periféricos
Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Neurocirugía FLANC
Neurocirujano
Cirugía de Nervios Periféricos
Coordinador Clínica de Nervio Periférico
Centro Neurolgógico ABC
Past Continental Vice-chairman Peripheral Nerve Committee
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies WFNS
Secretario Capítulo de Nervios Periféricos
Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Neurocirugía FLANC
Ex Presidente Sección Cirugía de Nervios Periféricos
Sociedad Mexicana de Cirugía Neurológica SMCN
Ex Presidente Capítulo de Nervios Periféricos
Federación Latinoamericana de Sociedades de Neurocirugía FLANC
Cirugía de Nervio Periférico y Plexos
Centro Neurológico ABC
Elif Aydinlar
Dr. Elif Ilgaz Aydinlar is a Professor at Acibadem University School of Medicine Department of Neurology, Istanbul, Türkiye. She completed her training in Neurology at Haydarpaşa Numune Hospital, Istanbul. She has been working at Acibadem Healthcare Group in Istanbul since 2000 and executing intraoperative neurophysiology since 2009. She is a “Fellow of the European Board of Neurology”. Dr. Ilgaz Aydinlar was a board member of the international society of intraoperative neurophysiology (ISIN) between 2015-2022 and was the host of Part I ( Spinal and spinal cord monitoring) of the Second Cycle of the ISIN Educational course in Istanbul in 2014.
Nicolas Foroglou, MD, PhD
Nicolas Foroglou, MD, PhD is appointed as Professor of Neurosurgery in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Medicine and is the Chair of Department of Neurosurgery, AHEPA University Hospital. He has graduated from the same Medical School in 1993, and obtained the Diploma of Clinical Neurology (Institute of Neurology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK). He completed the Residency Program in the Neurosurgical Department, AHEPA University Hospital (1997-2001) and defended his PhD thesis on Recurrent Pituitary Adenomas. After being certified from the National Neurosurgical Examination Board and the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) in 2001, he did a research fellowship on neuro-oncology (Brigham & Women Hospital, affiliated hospital to Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA) and a fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery (University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland).
He was elected unanimously as Lecturer of Neurosurgery in 2003 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Assistant Professor in 2010, Associated Professor in 2016 and full Professor in 2019. His clinical and research activities are focused on neuro-oncology, brain mapping and epilepsy surgery. He applied intraoperative neurophysiology in the full spectrum of neurosurgical operations and he receive numerous visitors from different countries. He has published more than 55 papers in peer reviewed international journals, authored 12 chapter book and deliver more than 200 international lectures. He holds multiple memberships including EANO, EANS, AANS, CNS, Société de Neurochirurgie de langue francaise, Hellenic Neurosurgical Society. He served as President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society [2017-2019] and Treasurer of EANS [2017-2021] and is currently EANS representative in EBC.
He was elected unanimously as Lecturer of Neurosurgery in 2003 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Assistant Professor in 2010, Associated Professor in 2016 and full Professor in 2019. His clinical and research activities are focused on neuro-oncology, brain mapping and epilepsy surgery. He applied intraoperative neurophysiology in the full spectrum of neurosurgical operations and he receive numerous visitors from different countries. He has published more than 55 papers in peer reviewed international journals, authored 12 chapter book and deliver more than 200 international lectures. He holds multiple memberships including EANO, EANS, AANS, CNS, Société de Neurochirurgie de langue francaise, Hellenic Neurosurgical Society. He served as President of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society [2017-2019] and Treasurer of EANS [2017-2021] and is currently EANS representative in EBC.
Davide Giampiccolo
Davide Giampiccolo is a neurosurgical fellow in Complex Epilepsy at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queen Square and at Cleveland Clinic London Hospital, and a PhD student in Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy at the UCL Institute of Neurology under Prof. John S. Duncan and Ms Anna Miserocchi. He completed his training in Neurosurgery in Italy under the direction of Prof. Francesco Sala in 2021. The last year of his training he was mentored by Prof. Hugues Duffau, in Montpellier, France, on how to perform awake surgery with white matter stimulation in the left and right hemisphere. He previously learned white matter anatomy and tractography working for one year under Prof. Marco Catani at King’s College London in 2016.
His work focuses on functional neuroanatomy and connectomics to improve neurological outcome in resective surgery. He is an expert in applying intraoperative neurophysiology techniques to preserve essential white matter networks in both the asleep and awake setting, having been mentored by Francesco Sala and Hugues Duffau. Together with Professor Duffau and Prof Duncan he recently proposed a reappraisal of current anatomical models for language (Giampiccolo and Duffau, Brain, 2022) and epileptogenic networks (Giampiccolo et al, 2023, Brain).
He has authored several papers and book chapters on the topic of cortical and subcortical white matter stimulation aiming to bridge anatomy and electrophysiology. His work has been awarded by a number of scientific and clinical communities including the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping and the International Society for Intraoperative Neurophysiology. He was the first non-North American to receive the prestigious Academy Award from the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and was awarded the Integra research fund by the European Association of Neurological Societies for his studies on asleep language monitoring.
His work focuses on functional neuroanatomy and connectomics to improve neurological outcome in resective surgery. He is an expert in applying intraoperative neurophysiology techniques to preserve essential white matter networks in both the asleep and awake setting, having been mentored by Francesco Sala and Hugues Duffau. Together with Professor Duffau and Prof Duncan he recently proposed a reappraisal of current anatomical models for language (Giampiccolo and Duffau, Brain, 2022) and epileptogenic networks (Giampiccolo et al, 2023, Brain).
He has authored several papers and book chapters on the topic of cortical and subcortical white matter stimulation aiming to bridge anatomy and electrophysiology. His work has been awarded by a number of scientific and clinical communities including the Organisation for Human Brain Mapping and the International Society for Intraoperative Neurophysiology. He was the first non-North American to receive the prestigious Academy Award from the American Academy of Neurological Surgery and was awarded the Integra research fund by the European Association of Neurological Societies for his studies on asleep language monitoring.
Ioannis Karakis, MD, PhD, MSc, FAAN, FANA, FACNS, FAES, FAANEM
Professor
Department of Neurology
Director
Grady Memorial Hospital Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Services
Director
Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital Intraoperative Monitoring Services
Program Director
Emory University Epilepsy Fellowship
Associate Program Director
Emory University Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship
Biography
Dr. Karakis is a Professor of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. He graduated with honors from the Medical School of Athens, Greece. Subsequently he completed Neurology Residency at Boston Medical Center, Boston University, serving as the Chief Resident in the last year of his training. He then specialized in Clinical Neurophysiology by completing a two-year fellowship with focus on EEG, Epilepsy and Intraoperative Monitoring at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a one-year fellowship with focus on EMG and Neuromuscular Medicine at Lahey Clinic, Tufts University and Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD thesis on quality of life in epilepsy in the Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece. He is board-certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular Medicine, and Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, in Clinical Neurophysiology with added competency in Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and in Electromyography by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Karakis has been elected as a fellow member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, American Epilepsy Society and American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He also serves at the Clinical Neurophysiology Examination Committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is interested in medical education and was conferred with the 2013 Faculty Teaching Award and 2014 Resident's Friend Award by the Emory University Neurology Residency Program, the 2015 AB Baker Teacher Recognition Award by the American Academy of Neurology, the 2019 Hidden Gem Award by the Emory University School of Medicine and the 2023 Distinction in Teaching Award by the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. His research interests span the whole spectrum of Clinical Neurophysiology.
Publications
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Department of Neurology
Director
Grady Memorial Hospital Electroencephalography and Epilepsy Services
Director
Emory University and Grady Memorial Hospital Intraoperative Monitoring Services
Program Director
Emory University Epilepsy Fellowship
Associate Program Director
Emory University Clinical Neurophysiology Fellowship
Biography
Dr. Karakis is a Professor of Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. He graduated with honors from the Medical School of Athens, Greece. Subsequently he completed Neurology Residency at Boston Medical Center, Boston University, serving as the Chief Resident in the last year of his training. He then specialized in Clinical Neurophysiology by completing a two-year fellowship with focus on EEG, Epilepsy and Intraoperative Monitoring at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and a one-year fellowship with focus on EMG and Neuromuscular Medicine at Lahey Clinic, Tufts University and Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a PhD thesis on quality of life in epilepsy in the Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece. He is board-certified in Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology, Neuromuscular Medicine, and Epilepsy by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, in Clinical Neurophysiology with added competency in Neurophysiologic Intraoperative Monitoring by the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and in Electromyography by the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. Dr. Karakis has been elected as a fellow member of the American Academy of Neurology, American Neurological Association, American Clinical Neurophysiology Society, American Epilepsy Society and American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He also serves at the Clinical Neurophysiology Examination Committee of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is interested in medical education and was conferred with the 2013 Faculty Teaching Award and 2014 Resident's Friend Award by the Emory University Neurology Residency Program, the 2015 AB Baker Teacher Recognition Award by the American Academy of Neurology, the 2019 Hidden Gem Award by the Emory University School of Medicine and the 2023 Distinction in Teaching Award by the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society. His research interests span the whole spectrum of Clinical Neurophysiology.
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Stamatios (Tom) Krimigis
Dr. Stamatios (Tom) Krimigis is Emeritus Head of the Space Exploration Sector at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Vice President of the Academy of Athens where he occupies the Chair of Science of Space and Applications, has built instruments that have flown to all 9 classical planets beginning with Mariner 4 to Mars in 1965 and ending with New Horizons to Pluto in 2015; also the Moon, the asteroid Eros, and the Parker Solar Probe to the Sun in 2018, and is Principal Investigator on NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 Interstellar Mission to the outer planets and the Galaxy. In 1999 the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 1979 UH as 8323 Krimigis. Among his most recent awards are the Smithsonian Institutions' National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Lifetime Achievement (2015), the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2016), andthe Theodore von Karman Award (2017) of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is a member of Academia Europaea, and was honored by a special resolution of the U. S. Senate "for exceptional contributions to space science" (2018).
David MacDonald
Dr. David MacDonald trained in medicine and neurology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He then studied electroencephalography (EEG) and evoked potentials (EPs) at the MAYO Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States. He was Director of the intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring (IONM) program, EEG/EP laboratory, and seizure investigation unit at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada from 1991 to 1999, and became an assistant clinical professor of neurology. Then he headed the Section of Neurophysiology in the Department of Neurosciences at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2012, and remained as consultant intraoperative neurophysiologist, neurologist, and epileptologist until 2020. In 2021, he became Scientific Director for Arkana Forum in Emmendingen, Germany to focus on IONM education and training. Dr. MacDonald is also a past President of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN). His main fields of expertise include IONM, EEG, EPs, epilepsy, teaching, research, and guideline development. He is a frequently requested speaker, and has published many articles and chapters, including guidelines for the ISIN, the American Society of Clinical Neurophysiology, and the American Society of Neurophysiologic monitoring. In addition, he is Associate Editor of Clinical Neurophysiology, the official journal of the International Federation of Neurophysiology, as well as an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing.
Nobuhito Morota, MD
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Kitasato University Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan
Dr. Morota was born in November 1954 and raised in Tokyo, graduated from Shinshu University School of Medicine at Matsumoto in 1981. After his post graduate training in Yamanashi, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery (Director: Prof. Ken-ichiro Sugita) at Shinshu University.
He began his career as a pediatric neurosurgeon in 1986 when he was trained for a year as a clinical fellow at Kobe Children's Hospital (Director: Keizo Sakamoto). He became a board-certified neurosurgeon in Japan in 1989. He moved to Divison of Pediatric Neurosurgery in New York University Medical Center (Director: Fred J Epstein) in 1991 and served as a clinical fellow in both intraoperative neurophysiology (Director: Vedran Deletis) and pediatric neurosurgery. Upon his return to Japan in 1995, he mastered spinal and epilepsy surgery at Aichi Medical University and National Niigata Chuo Hospital. In 2002, he was appointed as a Director of Division of Neurosurgery in the newly founded National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo and led it to become the largest pediatric neurosurgical service in Japan. He moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center in 2014 and served as President of the 46th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 2018. He, then, moved to Kitasato University School of Medicine in October 2018 to establish Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery there. He is one of Co-Presidents of the coming 4th Congress of Asia-Australasian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery held in December 2023.
He is specialized in surgery of craniovertebral junction, deep seated brain & brainstem tumors, lumbosacral congenital anomalies, neuroendoscopic surgery, neurosurfical management of spasticity, and intraoperative neurophysiology.
Kitasato University Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan
Dr. Morota was born in November 1954 and raised in Tokyo, graduated from Shinshu University School of Medicine at Matsumoto in 1981. After his post graduate training in Yamanashi, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery (Director: Prof. Ken-ichiro Sugita) at Shinshu University.
He began his career as a pediatric neurosurgeon in 1986 when he was trained for a year as a clinical fellow at Kobe Children's Hospital (Director: Keizo Sakamoto). He became a board-certified neurosurgeon in Japan in 1989. He moved to Divison of Pediatric Neurosurgery in New York University Medical Center (Director: Fred J Epstein) in 1991 and served as a clinical fellow in both intraoperative neurophysiology (Director: Vedran Deletis) and pediatric neurosurgery. Upon his return to Japan in 1995, he mastered spinal and epilepsy surgery at Aichi Medical University and National Niigata Chuo Hospital. In 2002, he was appointed as a Director of Division of Neurosurgery in the newly founded National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo and led it to become the largest pediatric neurosurgical service in Japan. He moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center in 2014 and served as President of the 46th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 2018. He, then, moved to Kitasato University School of Medicine in October 2018 to establish Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery there. He is one of Co-Presidents of the coming 4th Congress of Asia-Australasian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery held in December 2023.
He is specialized in surgery of craniovertebral junction, deep seated brain & brainstem tumors, lumbosacral congenital anomalies, neuroendoscopic surgery, neurosurfical management of spasticity, and intraoperative neurophysiology.
Nobuhito Morota, MD
Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery
Kitasato University Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan
Dr. Morota was born in November 1954 and raised in Tokyo, graduated from Shinshu University School of Medicine at Matsumoto in 1981. After his post graduate training in Yamanashi, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery (Director: Prof. Ken-ichiro Sugita) at Shinshu University.
He began his career as a pediatric neurosurgeon in 1986 when he was trained for a year as a clinical fellow at Kobe Children's Hospital (Director: Keizo Sakamoto). He became a board-certified neurosurgeon in Japan in 1989. He moved to Divison of Pediatric Neurosurgery in New York University Medical Center (Director: Fred J Epstein) in 1991 and served as a clinical fellow in both intraoperative neurophysiology (Director: Vedran Deletis) and pediatric neurosurgery. Upon his return to Japan in 1995, he mastered spinal and epilepsy surgery at Aichi Medical University and National Niigata Chuo Hospital. In 2002, he was appointed as a Director of Division of Neurosurgery in the newly founded National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo and led it to become the largest pediatric neurosurgical service in Japan. He moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center in 2014 and served as President of the 46th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 2018. He, then, moved to Kitasato University School of Medicine in October 2018 to establish Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery there. He is one of Co-Presidents of the coming 4th Congress of Asia-Australasian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery held in December 2023.
He is specialized in surgery of craniovertebral junction, deep seated brain & brainstem tumors, lumbosacral congenital anomalies, neuroendoscopic surgery, neurosurfical management of spasticity, and intraoperative neurophysiology.
Kitasato University Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan
Dr. Morota was born in November 1954 and raised in Tokyo, graduated from Shinshu University School of Medicine at Matsumoto in 1981. After his post graduate training in Yamanashi, he joined the Department of Neurosurgery (Director: Prof. Ken-ichiro Sugita) at Shinshu University.
He began his career as a pediatric neurosurgeon in 1986 when he was trained for a year as a clinical fellow at Kobe Children's Hospital (Director: Keizo Sakamoto). He became a board-certified neurosurgeon in Japan in 1989. He moved to Divison of Pediatric Neurosurgery in New York University Medical Center (Director: Fred J Epstein) in 1991 and served as a clinical fellow in both intraoperative neurophysiology (Director: Vedran Deletis) and pediatric neurosurgery. Upon his return to Japan in 1995, he mastered spinal and epilepsy surgery at Aichi Medical University and National Niigata Chuo Hospital. In 2002, he was appointed as a Director of Division of Neurosurgery in the newly founded National Center for Child Health and Development in Tokyo and led it to become the largest pediatric neurosurgical service in Japan. He moved to Tokyo Metropolitan Children's Medical Center in 2014 and served as President of the 46th annual meeting of Japanese Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery in 2018. He, then, moved to Kitasato University School of Medicine in October 2018 to establish Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery there. He is one of Co-Presidents of the coming 4th Congress of Asia-Australasian Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery held in December 2023.
He is specialized in surgery of craniovertebral junction, deep seated brain & brainstem tumors, lumbosacral congenital anomalies, neuroendoscopic surgery, neurosurfical management of spasticity, and intraoperative neurophysiology.
Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Dr. Konstantinos Gervasios Papadopoulos is currently a Surgical Neurophysiology associate of the
Department of Neurosurgery, National Kapodistrian University, Medical School of Athens,
Evangelismos Hospital since 2017. He is also a part of the academic program responsible for the
coordination in a Master of Sciences Degree concerning the subject of “Intraoperative
Neurophysiology in Neurosurgery”. At the same institute he is responsible for the
neurophysiological monitoring in neuro-oncology cases that requires awake and asleep brain mapping.
He has served in the Scoliosis & Spinal Cord Unit at KAT Hospital - Centre for Accident and Trauma charged with Intraoperative Neurophysiology from 2003 up to 2015. From that year, 2015 until 2017 worked at the 2nd Department of Anesthesiology, National Kapodistrian University, Medical School of Athens, Attikon Hospital as a scientific associate in Intraoperative Neurophysiology with academic as well as intraoperative duties.
Since 2002, when returned to his home country, has an experience of over than 3900 cases concerning spinal deformity, spinal trauma, degenerative disease and spinal tumor surgery. Due to his involvement in Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring since his medical academic years, he associated with many institutes where operative procedures until that time were performed with no IOM involvement, since before 2001. Working together with several university clinics but also military hospitals and private institutions has a range of a total of 8700 cases in the fields of orthopedics, neurosurgery, vascular and general surgery. Put a lot of effort in educating and enlightening the surgical community on the necessity of the use of IONM with the right standards with numerous congress presentations and publications in journals.
He has served in the Scoliosis & Spinal Cord Unit at KAT Hospital - Centre for Accident and Trauma charged with Intraoperative Neurophysiology from 2003 up to 2015. From that year, 2015 until 2017 worked at the 2nd Department of Anesthesiology, National Kapodistrian University, Medical School of Athens, Attikon Hospital as a scientific associate in Intraoperative Neurophysiology with academic as well as intraoperative duties.
Since 2002, when returned to his home country, has an experience of over than 3900 cases concerning spinal deformity, spinal trauma, degenerative disease and spinal tumor surgery. Due to his involvement in Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring since his medical academic years, he associated with many institutes where operative procedures until that time were performed with no IOM involvement, since before 2001. Working together with several university clinics but also military hospitals and private institutions has a range of a total of 8700 cases in the fields of orthopedics, neurosurgery, vascular and general surgery. Put a lot of effort in educating and enlightening the surgical community on the necessity of the use of IONM with the right standards with numerous congress presentations and publications in journals.
Jay L. Shils, Ph.D., D.ABNM, FASNM, FACNS
Jay L. Shils, Ph.D., D.ABNM, FASNM, FACNS is a Professor in the department of Neurosurgery at Rush Medical Center. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Syracuse University, and both his masters and PhD in Bioengineering at The University of Pennsylvania with his research focusing on left and right interactions in the visual system and studying EEG in epilepsy. Dr. Shils has been involved in intraoperative neuromonitoring since 1994, specializing in microelectrode neurophysiology for movement disorders. Dr. Shils is the co-editor of one of the key books on intraoperative neuromonitoring and two neuromodulation related books, which are his primary interests. Dr, Shils is a past president of the ASNM and the ISIN, the present secretary of the ASNM and is the founding secretary of the ISIN. Over the years, Dr. Shils has presented at over 100 national and international meetings and has published on MER, DBS, neuromodulation, and intraoperative monitoring techniques.
Marc Sindou, MD, DSc, DHC
Marc Sindou (MD, DSc, DHC) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Lyon, France.
Activity had several directions: 1) Functional Neurosurgery for Pain, Spasticity in Adults and Children, Epilepsy and Trigeminal Neuralgias; 2) Microsurgery for Giant Aneurysms, Meningiomas, Venous repair and Cranial Nerve Vascular Compression Syndromes; 3) Neurophysiology applied to Neurosurgery.
Practical activity, together with devoted team, amounted at more than twenty-thousand surgeries. Experience was reported in 52 book chapters, 10 books, and 743 publications (most original articles in International Journals). According to the Research Gate scoring system, Research interest score is 6,610 (i.e., higher than 95 % of RG members), with h-index of 62; Citations:14,804 (12,736 excluding self-citations; Reads: 46,585.
M.S. was a Founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (1976), the President of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (1997-2001), a Vice-President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (1999-2003), a Teacher in the EANS Training Committee (1985-2014), the President of the French-Speaking Neurosurgical Society (2007-2010), a Past-Co-Chairman of the Committee for “Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery” of the WFNS (2018-2021).
348 invited-lectures were delivered in 61 different foreign countries. Among many international distinctions, he was awarded the European Lecture by the EANS in 2007, the Spiegel and Wycis Medal by the WSSFN in 2009, the Award of the Ten Masters in Neurosurgery by the WFNS in 2009, the Award of Top-neurosurgeon for Cranial Nerve Disorders in 2018, the John Loeser Lecture by AANS in 2019, the David Kline Lecture by AANS in 2021. He was honoured by 40 Visiting-Professorships, especially in the fields of Functional Neurosurgery and on the topic of Surgery in the DREZ that he introduced in 1974.
M.S. fully trained more than fifty Promising neurosurgeons from abroad.
Activity had several directions: 1) Functional Neurosurgery for Pain, Spasticity in Adults and Children, Epilepsy and Trigeminal Neuralgias; 2) Microsurgery for Giant Aneurysms, Meningiomas, Venous repair and Cranial Nerve Vascular Compression Syndromes; 3) Neurophysiology applied to Neurosurgery.
Practical activity, together with devoted team, amounted at more than twenty-thousand surgeries. Experience was reported in 52 book chapters, 10 books, and 743 publications (most original articles in International Journals). According to the Research Gate scoring system, Research interest score is 6,610 (i.e., higher than 95 % of RG members), with h-index of 62; Citations:14,804 (12,736 excluding self-citations; Reads: 46,585.
M.S. was a Founding member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (1976), the President of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (1997-2001), a Vice-President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (1999-2003), a Teacher in the EANS Training Committee (1985-2014), the President of the French-Speaking Neurosurgical Society (2007-2010), a Past-Co-Chairman of the Committee for “Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery” of the WFNS (2018-2021).
348 invited-lectures were delivered in 61 different foreign countries. Among many international distinctions, he was awarded the European Lecture by the EANS in 2007, the Spiegel and Wycis Medal by the WSSFN in 2009, the Award of the Ten Masters in Neurosurgery by the WFNS in 2009, the Award of Top-neurosurgeon for Cranial Nerve Disorders in 2018, the John Loeser Lecture by AANS in 2019, the David Kline Lecture by AANS in 2021. He was honoured by 40 Visiting-Professorships, especially in the fields of Functional Neurosurgery and on the topic of Surgery in the DREZ that he introduced in 1974.
M.S. fully trained more than fifty Promising neurosurgeons from abroad.
Dr. med. Lampis Stavrinou
Current Position :
01.2022 – Today: Assoc. Professor of Neurosurgery, 2nd Neurosurgical Department, University of Athens, ATTIKO University Hospital
Previous Positions
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Athens
- Doctorate (PhD), University of Athens
Clinical Fellowships and Areas of clinical interest
Α. Neurooncology
- Certification in Neurosurgical Oncology 2021
- Head of Neuronocological Board Park-Kliniken Berlin(2015-2021)
- Member of Neurooncological Board Bethel Neurozentrum (2011-2015)
Β. Skull base surgery
- Instructor Cologne International Skull Base Course
- Instructor Erlangen Interdisciplinary Course for Endoscopic and Microscopic Surgery of the Skull Base
- Instructor White matter & Neurosurgical Anatomy Course, Athens
C. Spine Surgery
- Master Diploma (Deutsche Wirbelsäulengesellschaft - DWG) (2019)
01.2022 – Today: Assoc. Professor of Neurosurgery, 2nd Neurosurgical Department, University of Athens, ATTIKO University Hospital
Previous Positions
- 04.2017 – 08.2021: Vice Chairman (Leitender Oberarzt) Department of Neurosurgery, Schlosspark Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
- 04.2015 – 03.2017: Consultant (Oberarzt), Department of Neurosurgery, Schlosspark Hospital, Berlin, Germany.
- 10.2011 – 03.2015: Consultant (Oberarzt), Department of Neurosurgery, Center of Neurosciences Bethel, Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrein-Westfalen, Germany
- 05.2011 – 09.2011: Junior Consultant (Facharzt / Funktionsoberarzt), Department of Neurosurgery, Center of Neurosciences Bethel, Evangelical Hospital Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrein-Westfalen, Germany
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Athens
- Doctorate (PhD), University of Athens
Clinical Fellowships and Areas of clinical interest
Α. Neurooncology
- Certification in Neurosurgical Oncology 2021
- Head of Neuronocological Board Park-Kliniken Berlin(2015-2021)
- Member of Neurooncological Board Bethel Neurozentrum (2011-2015)
Β. Skull base surgery
- Instructor Cologne International Skull Base Course
- Instructor Erlangen Interdisciplinary Course for Endoscopic and Microscopic Surgery of the Skull Base
- Instructor White matter & Neurosurgical Anatomy Course, Athens
C. Spine Surgery
- Master Diploma (Deutsche Wirbelsäulengesellschaft - DWG) (2019)
Prof. George Stranjalis
Professor of Neurosurgery – Director
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
CURRENT POST
Professor of Neurosurgery – Director, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
Head, Athens Microneurosurgery Laboratory, 2011-
Head, Hellenic Center for Neurosurgical Research, 2017-
President, Hellenic Neurooncology Group, 2019-
Treasurer, Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 2013-
VISITOR PROFESSOR
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, University of Athens, Department of Neurosurgery,
Evangelismos Hospital, 2011–2017
Assistant Professor, University of Athens, Department of Neurosurgery Evangelismos Hospital, 2004 – 2010
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Evangelismos Hospital, 1996 – 2003
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, 1992 – 1995
Research Fellow, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 1991 – 1992
Neurosurgical Registar, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK, 1989 – 1991
Neurosurgical Registrar, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Saint George's Medical School, London, UK, 1988
SPECIALTY TRAINING
Department of Neurosurgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, 1984 – 1988
Departments of Surgery and Neurology, Athens Children's Hospital, 1982 – 1983
Departments of Surgery, General Hospitals of Corfu and Florina, 1981 – 1982
Απολυτήριο Λυκείου, Σχολή Μωραΐτη, 1975
MD Thesis Medical School, University of Athens, 1994
BA in Psychology, American College of Greece, 1988
MD, Medical School, University of Athens, 1981
High School Degree, Moraiti School, Athens, 1975
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), 1993
Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 1993
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), 1993
Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), 1993
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Neuro-Oncology and Skullbase, Hydrocephalus, Neurocritical Care, Neurotrauma, Haemorrhagic Stroke, Neurosurgical Anatomy, Neuroepidemiology, History
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
PUBLICATIONS
CURRENT POST
Professor of Neurosurgery – Director, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
Head, Athens Microneurosurgery Laboratory, 2011-
Head, Hellenic Center for Neurosurgical Research, 2017-
President, Hellenic Neurooncology Group, 2019-
Treasurer, Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 2013-
VISITOR PROFESSOR
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
SENIOR APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, University of Athens, Department of Neurosurgery,
Evangelismos Hospital, 2011–2017
Assistant Professor, University of Athens, Department of Neurosurgery Evangelismos Hospital, 2004 – 2010
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Evangelismos Hospital, 1996 – 2003
Consultant Neurosurgeon, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, 1992 – 1995
Research Fellow, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 1991 – 1992
Neurosurgical Registar, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK, 1989 – 1991
Neurosurgical Registrar, Atkinson Morley's Hospital, Saint George's Medical School, London, UK, 1988
SPECIALTY TRAINING
Department of Neurosurgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, 1984 – 1988
Departments of Surgery and Neurology, Athens Children's Hospital, 1982 – 1983
Departments of Surgery, General Hospitals of Corfu and Florina, 1981 – 1982
Απολυτήριο Λυκείου, Σχολή Μωραΐτη, 1975
MD Thesis Medical School, University of Athens, 1994
BA in Psychology, American College of Greece, 1988
MD, Medical School, University of Athens, 1981
High School Degree, Moraiti School, Athens, 1975
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), 1993
Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 1993
American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), 1993
Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS), 1993
CLINICAL AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Neuro-Oncology and Skullbase, Hydrocephalus, Neurocritical Care, Neurotrauma, Haemorrhagic Stroke, Neurosurgical Anatomy, Neuroepidemiology, History
Prof. Andrea Szelényi
Andrea Szelényi is Professor of Intraoperative and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Department for Neurosurgery at the University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany since 2015.
Dr. Szelényi’s clinical expertise is Clinical and Intraoperative Neurophysiology. She specializes in multimodal monitoring approaches and advanced brain mapping methods in glioma surgery including awake speech and motor mapping.
Being a trained Neurologist, she performed a fellowship in Intraoperative Neurophysiology with Prof. V. Deletis in New York. She established units for Intraoperative and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Neurosurgical Departments of the University of Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main (2001-2011) and served as Associate Professor at the University of Duesseldorf (2012-2015).
Her main research areas are on motor system using systematic clinical studies of Motor Evoked Potentials (MEPs) for intra-operative neuromonitoring focusing on application of MEPs in vascular neurosurgery and the effect of stimulation parameters in tumor surgery. Dr. Szelényi is the recipient of the 1st Excellence in Research Award of the American Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring.
In the area of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, she has organized national educational courses and participates in international training courses. She has published more than 60 scientific articles listed in MEDLINE, and book chapters and serves on the editorial board of Clinical Neurophysiology and acts as a reviewer. She served as President of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN) between 2015 and 2017, still holding a board position at the ISIN.
Dr. Szelényi’s clinical expertise is Clinical and Intraoperative Neurophysiology. She specializes in multimodal monitoring approaches and advanced brain mapping methods in glioma surgery including awake speech and motor mapping.
Being a trained Neurologist, she performed a fellowship in Intraoperative Neurophysiology with Prof. V. Deletis in New York. She established units for Intraoperative and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Neurosurgical Departments of the University of Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main (2001-2011) and served as Associate Professor at the University of Duesseldorf (2012-2015).
Her main research areas are on motor system using systematic clinical studies of Motor Evoked Potentials (MEPs) for intra-operative neuromonitoring focusing on application of MEPs in vascular neurosurgery and the effect of stimulation parameters in tumor surgery. Dr. Szelényi is the recipient of the 1st Excellence in Research Award of the American Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring.
In the area of Intraoperative Neurophysiology, she has organized national educational courses and participates in international training courses. She has published more than 60 scientific articles listed in MEDLINE, and book chapters and serves on the editorial board of Clinical Neurophysiology and acts as a reviewer. She served as President of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN) between 2015 and 2017, still holding a board position at the ISIN.
Michael J. Malcharek, MD, PhD
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
1992-1998 Medical School, University of Leipzig
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
2002 Board certification "Emergency Medicine"
2004 Board certification "Anesthesiology"
since 2004 ANESTHESIA CONSULTANT, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, "St. Georg" hospital Leipzig
2006-2023 HEAD OF DIVISION of Neuroanaesthesia & Intraoperative Neuromonitoring, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig
since 2023 CEO - PRAXISKLINIK LEIPZIG GmbH & Co. KG, Leipzig, Germany
LEADING SHEREHOLDER - PRAXISKLINIK LEIPZIG Outpatient center, anesthesia and IONM service, Leipzig, Germany
DEGREES & CERTIFICATIONS
2005 MD: Influence of a 960 MHz electromagnatic field (0,1 mW/cm2) of the human EEG, Carl-Ludwig-Institute of Physiology, University of Leipzig, Germany
2007 Certification of the educational program "Neuromonitoring in Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine" [German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine]
2016 PhD: "Multimodal evoked potential monitoring for carotidendarterectomy", Department of Medicine, Private University Witten/Herdecke, Germany
BOARDS
since 2007 DELEGATE of the educational program "Neuromonitoring in Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine" [German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine]
2011-2018 BOARD MEMBER of the Neuroanesthesia Working Group of the German Society of Anesthesia & Intensive Medicine
since 2016 CHAIR of the Neuromonitoring Committee of the German Society of Anesthesia & Intensive Medicine
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
2003-2017 Department of Anesthesia at University of California in Los Angeles, USA [Prof. C. P. Larson, MD]
2009-2013 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at The Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel [Akiva Korn, MedSc]
since 2008 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Hospital Bellvitge Barcelona, Spain [Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, MD]
2008-2016 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital New York, USA [Prof. Vedran Deletis, MD, PhD and Sedat Ulkatan, MD]
PUBLICATIONS
Malcharek MJ, Landgraf J, Hennig G, Sorge O, Aschermann J, Sablotzki A. Recordings of long-latency trigeminal somatosensory-evoked potentials in patients under general anesthesia. Clin Neurophysiol 2011 May;122(5):1048-54
Malcharek MJ, Rogos B, Watzlawek S, Sorge O, Sablotzki A, Larson CP jr.. Awake fiberoptic intubation and self-positioning in patients at risk of secondary cervical injury: A pilot study. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2012 Jul; 24(3):217-21
Malcharek MJ, Ulkatan S, Marinò V, Geyer M, LLadó-Carbó E, Perez-Fajardo G, Arranz– Arranz B, Climent J, Aloj F, Franco E, Chiacchiari L, Kulpok A, Sablotzki A, Hennig G, Deletis V. Intraoperative monitoring of carotid endarterectomy by transcranial motor evoked potential: a multicenter study of 600 patients. Clin Neurophysiol 2013 May;124(5):1025-30
Malcharek JM, Rockmann K, Zumpe R, Sorge O, Winter V, Guenther L, Sablotzki A, Schneider G. Comparison of Aintree and Fastrach techniques for low-skill fibreoptic Intubation in patients at risk of secondary cervical injury: a randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2014 Mar;31(3):153-8
Malcharek MJ, Loeffler S, Schiefer D, Manceur MA, Sablotzki A, Gille J, Pilge S, Schneider G. Transcranial motor evoked potentials during anesthesia with desflurane versus propofol – A prospective randomized trial. Clin Neurophysiol 2014 Dec 8. pii: S1388-2457(14)00842-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.11.025
Malcharek MJ, Herbst V, Bartz GJ, Manceur MA, Gille J, Hennig G, Sablotzki A, Schneider G. Multimodal evoked potential monitoring in asleep patients versus neurological evaluation in awake patients during carotid endarterectomy – a single-centre retrospective trial of 651 patients. Minerva anesthesiol 2015 Feb 6.
Pearse RM, Moreno RP, Bauer P, Pelosi P, Metnitz P, Spies C, Vallet B, Vincent JL, Hoeft A, Rhodes A; European Surgical Outcomes Study (EuSOS) group for the Trials groups of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Mortality after surgery in Europe: a 7 day cohort study. Lancet 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1059- 65
Gille J, Klezcewski B, Malcharek M, Raff T, Mogk M, Sablotzki A, Taha H. Safety of resuscitation with Ringer's acetate solution in severe burn (VolTRAB) - an observational trial. Burns 2014 Aug;40(5):871-80
Gille J, Sablotzki A, Malcharek M, Raff T, Mogk M, Parentin T. Regional citrate anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy in severe burns – A retrospective analysis of a protocol-guided approach. Burns 2014 Dec;40(8):1593-601
Pilge S, Kreuzer M, Karatchiviev V, Kochs EF, Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. Differences between state entropy and bispectral index during analysis of identical electroencephalogram signals: A comparison of two randomised anaesthetic techniques. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2015 May;32(5):354-65
Gille J, Bauer N, Malcharek MJ, Dragu A, Sablotzki A, Taha H, Czseslick E. Reducing the indication for ventilatory support in the severely burned patient – Results of a new protocol approach at a regional burn center. J Burn Care Res. 2016;37(3):e205-12
Kiel T, Pilge S, Kochs E, Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. The Cerebral State Index as a measure of anaesthetic depth – A prospective clinical study in surgical patients. Eur J Anaesthesiol ; under review
Kahan BC, Koulenti D, Arvaniti K, Beavis V, Campbell D, Chan M, Moreno R, Pearse RM; International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries. Intensiv Care Med. 2017;43(7):971-979
Malcharek JM. Re: Outcomes of combined somatosensory evoked potential, motor evoked potential and electroencephalography monitoring during carotid endarterectomy. Ann Vasc Surg 2014 Jul;28(5):1351
Malcharek MJ, Wacker J, Ahmad A, Winter V, Günther L, Schneider G, Sablotzki A. Brainstem infarction and locked in syndrome: A less recognized complication of atlantoaxial injury. Am J Case Rep 2011; 12: 90-4
Gille J, Seyfarth HJ, Gerlach S, Malcharek MJ, Czeslick E, Sablotzki A. Perioperative anesthesiological management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Anesthesiol Res Pract 2012;2012:356982. doi: 10.1155/2012/356982
Seyfarth HJ, Gille J, Sablotzki A, Gerlach S, Malcharek MJ, Gosse A, Gahr RH, Czeslick E. Perioperative management of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension in major orthopedic surgery: experience-based recommendations. GMS Interdiscip Plast Reconstr Surg DGPW 2015; 4:Doc03
Malcharek MJ, Rogos B. Intubation bei instabiler Halswirbelsäule. In: Anästhesiologie Kompendium und Repetitorium zur Weiter- und Fortbildung. Editoren: Eckart J, Jaeger K, Möllhoff T, 24. Erg.-Lfg., Heidelberg: ecomed Medizin, 2011:1-27
Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. Surgery of infratentorial mass. In: Monitoring the nervous system for anesthesiologists and other health care professionals. Editors: Koth A, Sloan TB, Toleikis JR. New York: Springer, 2017 2nd ed.: 385-94
Malcharek MJ, Schneider G, Dinkel M. Carotid endarterectomy. In: Neurophysiology in Neurosurgery, 2nd Edition, Elsevier 2020. Editors: Deletis V, Shils J, Sala F, Seidel K
Malcharek MJ. Anästhesie und IONM. In Intraoperatives Neuromonitoring. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2020. Editoren: Zentner J, Wegner C.
Sablotzki A, Malcharek MJ, Seyfarth HJ. Perioperatives anästhesiologisches Management von Patienten mit pulmonaler Hypertonie. In: Anästhesiologie Kompendium und Repetitorium zur Weiter- und Fortbildung. Editoren: Eckart J, Jaeger K, Möllhoff T, 28. Erg.-Lfg., Heidelberg: ecomed Medizin, 2012:1-30
1992-1998 Medical School, University of Leipzig
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION
2002 Board certification "Emergency Medicine"
2004 Board certification "Anesthesiology"
since 2004 ANESTHESIA CONSULTANT, Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, "St. Georg" hospital Leipzig
2006-2023 HEAD OF DIVISION of Neuroanaesthesia & Intraoperative Neuromonitoring, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Therapy, Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH Leipzig
since 2023 CEO - PRAXISKLINIK LEIPZIG GmbH & Co. KG, Leipzig, Germany
LEADING SHEREHOLDER - PRAXISKLINIK LEIPZIG Outpatient center, anesthesia and IONM service, Leipzig, Germany
DEGREES & CERTIFICATIONS
2005 MD: Influence of a 960 MHz electromagnatic field (0,1 mW/cm2) of the human EEG, Carl-Ludwig-Institute of Physiology, University of Leipzig, Germany
2007 Certification of the educational program "Neuromonitoring in Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine" [German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine]
2016 PhD: "Multimodal evoked potential monitoring for carotidendarterectomy", Department of Medicine, Private University Witten/Herdecke, Germany
BOARDS
since 2007 DELEGATE of the educational program "Neuromonitoring in Anesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine" [German Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine]
2011-2018 BOARD MEMBER of the Neuroanesthesia Working Group of the German Society of Anesthesia & Intensive Medicine
since 2016 CHAIR of the Neuromonitoring Committee of the German Society of Anesthesia & Intensive Medicine
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS
2003-2017 Department of Anesthesia at University of California in Los Angeles, USA [Prof. C. P. Larson, MD]
2009-2013 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at The Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel [Akiva Korn, MedSc]
since 2008 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Hospital Bellvitge Barcelona, Spain [Isabel Fernandez-Conejero, MD]
2008-2016 Division of Intraoperative Neurophysiology at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital New York, USA [Prof. Vedran Deletis, MD, PhD and Sedat Ulkatan, MD]
PUBLICATIONS
Malcharek MJ, Landgraf J, Hennig G, Sorge O, Aschermann J, Sablotzki A. Recordings of long-latency trigeminal somatosensory-evoked potentials in patients under general anesthesia. Clin Neurophysiol 2011 May;122(5):1048-54
Malcharek MJ, Rogos B, Watzlawek S, Sorge O, Sablotzki A, Larson CP jr.. Awake fiberoptic intubation and self-positioning in patients at risk of secondary cervical injury: A pilot study. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2012 Jul; 24(3):217-21
Malcharek MJ, Ulkatan S, Marinò V, Geyer M, LLadó-Carbó E, Perez-Fajardo G, Arranz– Arranz B, Climent J, Aloj F, Franco E, Chiacchiari L, Kulpok A, Sablotzki A, Hennig G, Deletis V. Intraoperative monitoring of carotid endarterectomy by transcranial motor evoked potential: a multicenter study of 600 patients. Clin Neurophysiol 2013 May;124(5):1025-30
Malcharek JM, Rockmann K, Zumpe R, Sorge O, Winter V, Guenther L, Sablotzki A, Schneider G. Comparison of Aintree and Fastrach techniques for low-skill fibreoptic Intubation in patients at risk of secondary cervical injury: a randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2014 Mar;31(3):153-8
Malcharek MJ, Loeffler S, Schiefer D, Manceur MA, Sablotzki A, Gille J, Pilge S, Schneider G. Transcranial motor evoked potentials during anesthesia with desflurane versus propofol – A prospective randomized trial. Clin Neurophysiol 2014 Dec 8. pii: S1388-2457(14)00842-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.11.025
Malcharek MJ, Herbst V, Bartz GJ, Manceur MA, Gille J, Hennig G, Sablotzki A, Schneider G. Multimodal evoked potential monitoring in asleep patients versus neurological evaluation in awake patients during carotid endarterectomy – a single-centre retrospective trial of 651 patients. Minerva anesthesiol 2015 Feb 6.
Pearse RM, Moreno RP, Bauer P, Pelosi P, Metnitz P, Spies C, Vallet B, Vincent JL, Hoeft A, Rhodes A; European Surgical Outcomes Study (EuSOS) group for the Trials groups of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. Mortality after surgery in Europe: a 7 day cohort study. Lancet 2012 Sep 22;380(9847):1059- 65
Gille J, Klezcewski B, Malcharek M, Raff T, Mogk M, Sablotzki A, Taha H. Safety of resuscitation with Ringer's acetate solution in severe burn (VolTRAB) - an observational trial. Burns 2014 Aug;40(5):871-80
Gille J, Sablotzki A, Malcharek M, Raff T, Mogk M, Parentin T. Regional citrate anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy in severe burns – A retrospective analysis of a protocol-guided approach. Burns 2014 Dec;40(8):1593-601
Pilge S, Kreuzer M, Karatchiviev V, Kochs EF, Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. Differences between state entropy and bispectral index during analysis of identical electroencephalogram signals: A comparison of two randomised anaesthetic techniques. Eur J Anaesthesiol 2015 May;32(5):354-65
Gille J, Bauer N, Malcharek MJ, Dragu A, Sablotzki A, Taha H, Czseslick E. Reducing the indication for ventilatory support in the severely burned patient – Results of a new protocol approach at a regional burn center. J Burn Care Res. 2016;37(3):e205-12
Kiel T, Pilge S, Kochs E, Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. The Cerebral State Index as a measure of anaesthetic depth – A prospective clinical study in surgical patients. Eur J Anaesthesiol ; under review
Kahan BC, Koulenti D, Arvaniti K, Beavis V, Campbell D, Chan M, Moreno R, Pearse RM; International Surgical Outcomes Study (ISOS) group. Critical care admission following elective surgery was not associated with survival benefit: prospective analysis of data from 27 countries. Intensiv Care Med. 2017;43(7):971-979
Malcharek JM. Re: Outcomes of combined somatosensory evoked potential, motor evoked potential and electroencephalography monitoring during carotid endarterectomy. Ann Vasc Surg 2014 Jul;28(5):1351
Malcharek MJ, Wacker J, Ahmad A, Winter V, Günther L, Schneider G, Sablotzki A. Brainstem infarction and locked in syndrome: A less recognized complication of atlantoaxial injury. Am J Case Rep 2011; 12: 90-4
Gille J, Seyfarth HJ, Gerlach S, Malcharek MJ, Czeslick E, Sablotzki A. Perioperative anesthesiological management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. Anesthesiol Res Pract 2012;2012:356982. doi: 10.1155/2012/356982
Seyfarth HJ, Gille J, Sablotzki A, Gerlach S, Malcharek MJ, Gosse A, Gahr RH, Czeslick E. Perioperative management of patients with severe pulmonary hypertension in major orthopedic surgery: experience-based recommendations. GMS Interdiscip Plast Reconstr Surg DGPW 2015; 4:Doc03
Malcharek MJ, Rogos B. Intubation bei instabiler Halswirbelsäule. In: Anästhesiologie Kompendium und Repetitorium zur Weiter- und Fortbildung. Editoren: Eckart J, Jaeger K, Möllhoff T, 24. Erg.-Lfg., Heidelberg: ecomed Medizin, 2011:1-27
Malcharek MJ, Schneider G. Surgery of infratentorial mass. In: Monitoring the nervous system for anesthesiologists and other health care professionals. Editors: Koth A, Sloan TB, Toleikis JR. New York: Springer, 2017 2nd ed.: 385-94
Malcharek MJ, Schneider G, Dinkel M. Carotid endarterectomy. In: Neurophysiology in Neurosurgery, 2nd Edition, Elsevier 2020. Editors: Deletis V, Shils J, Sala F, Seidel K
Malcharek MJ. Anästhesie und IONM. In Intraoperatives Neuromonitoring. Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2020. Editoren: Zentner J, Wegner C.
Sablotzki A, Malcharek MJ, Seyfarth HJ. Perioperatives anästhesiologisches Management von Patienten mit pulmonaler Hypertonie. In: Anästhesiologie Kompendium und Repetitorium zur Weiter- und Fortbildung. Editoren: Eckart J, Jaeger K, Möllhoff T, 28. Erg.-Lfg., Heidelberg: ecomed Medizin, 2012:1-30
Gea Drost, MD, PhD
Gea Drost, MD, PhD is neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands.
From 1982 – 1986 she worked as a physiotherapist at a Rehabilitation Centre. Before studying Medicine she studied psychology and obtained a bachelor degree, cum laude.
From 2000 - 2013 Gea was Staff Member at the Dept. of Neurology at the UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in 2007 on the subject 'High-density surface EMG- pathophysiological insights and clinical applications'. She was one of the coordinators of the multidisciplinary Neuromuscular Expertise and Consultation Center (NECC) in Nijmegen. She also performed shared medical appointments for neuromuscular patients and their partners.
Gea was co-ordinator education at the Dept. of Neurology and Principal Lecturer. She was co-promotor and engaged at the research of shared medical appointments and led an 'n-of-1 trial with Mexilitine by non-dystrophic myotonia patients'.
During the past ten years she was a member of the advising committee of the National Health Council of the Netherlands who advised the Minister of Health about 'Determining death in post mortal organ donation'.
From 2013 Gea is working at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, as a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at the Dept. of Neurology and the Dept. of Neurosurgery. At the Dept of Neurosurgery she is responsible for the Intra-Operative Neurophysiology. In 2021 she became Medical Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Department at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. Her scientific interest in IONM has grown, she guides several PhD Students in IONM.
From 2018-2022 she was secretary of the ISIN
Since 2022 Gea Drost is Chair of the Educational Committee of ISIN.
From 1982 – 1986 she worked as a physiotherapist at a Rehabilitation Centre. Before studying Medicine she studied psychology and obtained a bachelor degree, cum laude.
From 2000 - 2013 Gea was Staff Member at the Dept. of Neurology at the UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in 2007 on the subject 'High-density surface EMG- pathophysiological insights and clinical applications'. She was one of the coordinators of the multidisciplinary Neuromuscular Expertise and Consultation Center (NECC) in Nijmegen. She also performed shared medical appointments for neuromuscular patients and their partners.
Gea was co-ordinator education at the Dept. of Neurology and Principal Lecturer. She was co-promotor and engaged at the research of shared medical appointments and led an 'n-of-1 trial with Mexilitine by non-dystrophic myotonia patients'.
During the past ten years she was a member of the advising committee of the National Health Council of the Netherlands who advised the Minister of Health about 'Determining death in post mortal organ donation'.
From 2013 Gea is working at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, as a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist at the Dept. of Neurology and the Dept. of Neurosurgery. At the Dept of Neurosurgery she is responsible for the Intra-Operative Neurophysiology. In 2021 she became Medical Head of the Clinical Neurophysiology Department at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. Her scientific interest in IONM has grown, she guides several PhD Students in IONM.
From 2018-2022 she was secretary of the ISIN
Since 2022 Gea Drost is Chair of the Educational Committee of ISIN.
Ana Mirallave
Licensure in Medicine by "Universidad de Las Palmas de G.C.". Residency training in Clinical Neurophysiology. posdoc in in vitro electrophysiology in New York (USA) at the center for neural sciences, New York University. Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist at King´s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and lead the intraoperative neuromonitoring section of the departments of Neurosurgery and Clinical Neurophysiology. MSc in Science with honors at Queen Mary University of London Board member of the International Society of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (ISIN). AI Committee Chair.
Parthasarathy D. Thirumala, MD
Parthasarathy D. Thirumala, MD, joined the Center of Clinical Neurophysiology in June 2008. Dr. Thirumala specializes in intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring to adult and pediatric neurosurgical, orthopedic, ENT, vascular and interventional neuroradiology procedures.
Dr. Thirumala completed his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed his internship in internal medicine training at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Prior to clinical training he completed his masters in biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Thirumala completed his medical training in India at Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India.
His clinical and research interests include intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during cardiovascular, spinal, skull base surgeries including expanded endonasal approach, functional cortical mapping during awake craniotomies.
He has published over 120 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and invited articles in the journals including JAMA Neurology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurophysiology and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. He has given lectures both nationally and internationally on the value of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.
Dr. Thirumala completed his neurology residency and clinical neurophysiology fellowship training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He completed his internship in internal medicine training at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Prior to clinical training he completed his masters in biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Thirumala completed his medical training in India at Stanley Medical College in Chennai, India.
His clinical and research interests include intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring during cardiovascular, spinal, skull base surgeries including expanded endonasal approach, functional cortical mapping during awake craniotomies.
He has published over 120 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and invited articles in the journals including JAMA Neurology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurophysiology and Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. He has given lectures both nationally and internationally on the value of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.
Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel
Head of the Unit of Intraoperative Neurophysiology. Attending Physician and Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel, is board certified neurosurgeon, staff physician specialized in neurooncological surgery and professor of the Department of neurosurgery at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. Since 2008 at the Inselspital, she has established the unit of intraoperative neurophysiology. After a fellowship in ION with Vedran Deletis and Sedat Ulkatan in New York, she is providing training to other professionals, hosting international observers and focusing on advance of ION modalities to improve patient safety in technical high-risk surgeries. Providing expertise in neurosurgery and intraoperative neurophysiology, she is a routinely invited speaker at international courses and congresses. She has published numerous ION papers and key papers concerning subcortical brain mapping and mapping of the spinal cord. Currently, she serves as in the president elect of the society of intraoperative neurophysiology (ISIN). Recently, she was awarded with the prestigious Theodor Kocher Prize of Bern University, which honors its best academics across its faculties for their exceptional and innovative scientific achievements.
Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel, is board certified neurosurgeon, staff physician specialized in neurooncological surgery and professor of the Department of neurosurgery at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. Since 2008 at the Inselspital, she has established the unit of intraoperative neurophysiology. After a fellowship in ION with Vedran Deletis and Sedat Ulkatan in New York, she is providing training to other professionals, hosting international observers and focusing on advance of ION modalities to improve patient safety in technical high-risk surgeries. Providing expertise in neurosurgery and intraoperative neurophysiology, she is a routinely invited speaker at international courses and congresses. She has published numerous ION papers and key papers concerning subcortical brain mapping and mapping of the spinal cord. Currently, she serves as in the president elect of the society of intraoperative neurophysiology (ISIN). Recently, she was awarded with the prestigious Theodor Kocher Prize of Bern University, which honors its best academics across its faculties for their exceptional and innovative scientific achievements.
Isabel Fernandez-Conejero
Graduated in Medicine and Surgery at University of Barcelona where she also completed her Clinical Neurophysiology residency. She moved to New York and accomplished the IOM fellowship program directed by professor Vedran Deletis at the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit of Mount Sinai West Hospital. She now is the Director of the Intraoperative Neurophysiology Unit at University Hospital of Bellvitge in Barcelona and has created and educational program addressed to Neurophysiology and Neurology residents from Spain and other countries in Europe and South America. She has an active role in redaction of book chapters and articles in relation to development of new neurophysiological techniques, especially focused on cranial nerves and brain surgery. She is the former president of the ISIN.
Aristotelis Kalyvas
Dr. Aristotelis Kalyvas is a staff neurosurgeon at Toronto Western Hospital and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in pituitary, skull base, and brain tumor surgery. He employs both open and endoscopic techniques for skull base pathologies and multiparametric brain mapping for intra-axial tumors.Dr. Kalyvas earned his MD from the University of Ioannina and completed his neurosurgical residency and a clinical fellowship in awake intra-operative brain mapping in Athens, Greece. He later pursued a two-year clinical fellowship at Toronto Western Hospital/University of Toronto, focusing on the management of complex intra-axial tumors and surgical and radiosurgical treatment of pituitary tumors and skull base pathologies. Dr. Kalyvas holds an MSc in Surgical Sciences from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and a PhD in structural brain connectivity from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Passionate about education, Dr. Kalyvas organizes training courses to enhance surgeons' understanding of critical white matter pathways, including the NeuroConnect2023 International Course in Toronto, co-organized with Dr. Paul Kongkham. In 2021, he received the Fellowship Teaching Award from the Division of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Kalyvas' research interests include structural brain connectivity, brain mapping, and clinical trials/clinical research for brain, skull base, and pituitary tumors. He has published over 70 papers, with 15 original articles specifically focused on brain connectivity research. This work has resulted in presentations at seven national and international congresses, earning him four awards. Currently, Dr. Kalyvas is investigating the role of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and liquid biopsies in the diagnosis of brain tumors. Additionally, he is developing multiparametric brain mapping protocols, including one with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for patients with gliomas in the supplementary motor area.
Stefanos Korfias
Associate Professor
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Evangelismos Hospital
Greece
Current Post:
Associate Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st Dpt of Neurosurgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece (2020-today)
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Evangelismos Hospital
Greece
Current Post:
Associate Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1st Dpt of Neurosurgery, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece (2020-today)
Senior Appointments:
- Assistant Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2016-2020)
- Lecturer,
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2013-2016)
- Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece (2009-2012)
- Senior Specialist Registrar (Neurosurgery) ,
Queen's Hospital, Charing Cross Hospital, Royal Free Hospital,
London, UK (2007-2008)
- Specialist Registrar (Neurosurgery),
Newcastle General Hospital - Regional Neuroscience Centre,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK (2004-2006)
Professional Memberships:
- Athens Medical Association / Hellenic Medical Association: member
- General Medical Council (GMC)
- Society of British Neurological Surgeons (SBNS): Associate Member.
- Euro-academy of Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology (EMN): Full Member.
- European Society for Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN): Full member.
- International Neuromodulation Society (INS): Full member.
- South-East European Neuromodulation Society: General Secretary & Full member.
- Hellenic Neurosurgery Society: Full member
Ethics Committee (2021-23) / Educational Committee (2023-2025)
Functional Neurosurgery Committee (2021-today) / UEMS Representative (2023-today)
- European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS): Full member.
European Board of Neurological Surgey / Exam Committee (2022 - today)
- Scientific Society of Evangelismos Hospital: member
- World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN): Member.
Clinical & Research Interests:
- Brain Trauma
- CNS infections
- Functional Neurosurgery / Neuromodulation
- Pituitary tumours
Akiva Korn
Akiva Korn, M.Med.Sc., D-ABNM, holds the position of Director of the Surgical Neurophysiology Service at Tel-Aviv University Medical Center, Israel. The service is affiliated with the Division of Neurosurgery, directed by Prof. Jonathan Roth.
Akiva earned both basic and graduate degrees in neuroscience from Bar-Ilan University and Ben-Gurion University respectively, and underwent a two year fellowship in surgical neurophysiology in New York under the direction of Prof. Joseph Danto.
Akiva regularly participates in national and international meetings, congresses and instructional courses on the subject of surgical neurophysiology as an invited lecturer, and has authored and co-authored peer reviewed publications and book chapters on the subject of intraoperative neurophysiologic mapping and monitoring in neurosurgery. His service also receives with warmth guest neurophysiologists, neurosurgeons and neurologists from around the world for instructional direction and collaboration in research projects.
His main research interests lay in innovative and novel intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring and mapping methodologies applied in adult and pediatric brain surgery.
Akiva earned both basic and graduate degrees in neuroscience from Bar-Ilan University and Ben-Gurion University respectively, and underwent a two year fellowship in surgical neurophysiology in New York under the direction of Prof. Joseph Danto.
Akiva regularly participates in national and international meetings, congresses and instructional courses on the subject of surgical neurophysiology as an invited lecturer, and has authored and co-authored peer reviewed publications and book chapters on the subject of intraoperative neurophysiologic mapping and monitoring in neurosurgery. His service also receives with warmth guest neurophysiologists, neurosurgeons and neurologists from around the world for instructional direction and collaboration in research projects.
His main research interests lay in innovative and novel intraoperative neurophysiologic monitoring and mapping methodologies applied in adult and pediatric brain surgery.
Andreas Morakis
Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Current position: Spine Consultant at 3rd Orthopaedic Department of Athens University Medical School
Chairman of the AOSpine Greek Council
Current position: Spine Consultant at 3rd Orthopaedic Department of Athens University Medical School
Chairman of the AOSpine Greek Council
Mirela Simon
Dr. Simon is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she has been practicing for over 20 years. She is the current President of the American Board of Clinical Neurophysiology and the Secretary of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology.
Dr Simon has a broad interest in clinical neurophysiology, particularly its intraoperative applications for prevention of postoperative neurological deficit. A major emphasis of her research is to improve and develop new methods for neurophysiologic mapping of the central nervous system. In addition, she works to foster a better understanding of the electrophysiology of normal and abnormal nervous tissue excitability, and its fluctuations under certain conditions such as anesthesia and ischemia. Her exploration of the variability in depolarizing thresholds of eloquent cortex has led to the optimization of a multimodal technique for neurophysiologic functional mapping and monitoring during supratentorial surgery.
Dr Simon has a broad interest in clinical neurophysiology, particularly its intraoperative applications for prevention of postoperative neurological deficit. A major emphasis of her research is to improve and develop new methods for neurophysiologic mapping of the central nervous system. In addition, she works to foster a better understanding of the electrophysiology of normal and abnormal nervous tissue excitability, and its fluctuations under certain conditions such as anesthesia and ischemia. Her exploration of the variability in depolarizing thresholds of eloquent cortex has led to the optimization of a multimodal technique for neurophysiologic functional mapping and monitoring during supratentorial surgery.
Javier Urriza Mena
He studied Medicine at the University of Navarra and did the specialty of Clinical Neurophysiology in Tenerife. After being part of the Neurophysiology services of several hospitals, he completed a Fellowship in Intraoperative Neurophysiology in 2007 and 2008 at the Saint Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, in the team of Dr. Vedran Deletis. He currently works at the Hospital Universitario de Navarra.
He has 26 years of professional experience, 16 of them in the operating room, and his scientific production includes several book chapters, more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, and more than 65 communications, two of which have been awarded. He has attended more than 40 congresses, mostly as a speaker, and more than 20 updated courses on topics related to the specialty.
He was an associate professor at the University of Navarra for students in training for several years, and he currently teaches in a timely manner at the Engineering School of the Public University of Navarra. He has also been a professor for ten years at the Master in Neurological Electrodiagnostics at the University of Barcelona.
He is a current member of the Spanish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SENFC) since 1997 and of the Association of Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring of Spain (AMINE) since its foundation. He is also a member of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN) since its foundation in 2007 and has been part of its executive since 2015. From 2017 to 2022 he has been the Chairman of the Educational Committee of that society, working now as a Senior Advisor for that Committee.
He has 26 years of professional experience, 16 of them in the operating room, and his scientific production includes several book chapters, more than 20 peer-reviewed articles, and more than 65 communications, two of which have been awarded. He has attended more than 40 congresses, mostly as a speaker, and more than 20 updated courses on topics related to the specialty.
He was an associate professor at the University of Navarra for students in training for several years, and he currently teaches in a timely manner at the Engineering School of the Public University of Navarra. He has also been a professor for ten years at the Master in Neurological Electrodiagnostics at the University of Barcelona.
He is a current member of the Spanish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SENFC) since 1997 and of the Association of Neurophysiological Intraoperative Monitoring of Spain (AMINE) since its foundation. He is also a member of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN) since its foundation in 2007 and has been part of its executive since 2015. From 2017 to 2022 he has been the Chairman of the Educational Committee of that society, working now as a Senior Advisor for that Committee.
Marko M. Sahinovic, MD. PhD.
Qualifications
- PhD in Anaesthesia, University of Groningen, 2017
- Anaesthesia Consultant Board Certification, 2016
- Master's in Medicine, University of Groningen, 2007 (Cum Laude)
Professional Memberships
- NVA, ESAIC, ASA
Experience
- Current: Anaesthesia Consultant, UMCG, since May 2016
- Previous: Clinical Fellow in Neuroanesthesia, Addenbrookes Hospital, 2016
- Teaching: Tutor and science advisor to Medical students, University Medical Center Groningen, since 2021
Publications & Engagements
- Reviewer for BJA, Anesthesiology, A&A, JCMC
- Publications in Clinical Neurophysiology, Clinical Pharmacokinetics, BJA, Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
- Speaker at EuroNeuro and EDAIC meetings
Prof. Spyridon Pnevmatikos
Prof. Spyridon Pnevmatikos studied at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (N.K.U.A), School of Medicine and did his residency in Orthopaedics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston where he specialized in spine surgery. He lived in the USA following an academic and clinical career. He became an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Director of Orthopaedics at one of America's largest trauma centers, Ben Taub General Hospital. He returned to Greece as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics at N.K.U.A. Nowadays he is a Professor of Orthopaedics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Director of the 3rd Orthopaedic Clinic of NKUA at “KAT” Hospital. At the same time, he is Professor of Orthopaedics at Baylor College of Medicine in the USA. He is member of international medical societies such as American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, North American Spine Society, European Spine Society, AO Trauma, AO Spine etc. He has participated in multiple scientific research projects and has a large number of publications in highly prestigious scientific journals.
Maria J. Tellez, MD
I am a MD, Certified by The American Board of Neurophysiologic Monitoring (ABNM).
I work at Mount Sinai West Hospital. Intraoperative Neurophysiology Department, New York.
My contributions to IOM include three published original methodologies on brainstem reflexes.
In 2018 I was awarded by the American laryngological association for my novel insights on the laryngeal adductor reflex.
I work at Mount Sinai West Hospital. Intraoperative Neurophysiology Department, New York.
My contributions to IOM include three published original methodologies on brainstem reflexes.
In 2018 I was awarded by the American laryngological association for my novel insights on the laryngeal adductor reflex.
Sedat Ulkatan, MD,ABNM,CNIM
Graduated from Ankara University Medical School and did Neurology residency in the same Institute in Ankara-Turkey.
I did an Intraoperative neuromonitoring fellowship (2003-2006) and worked as an IOM Professional (2006-2017) at Beth Israel Medical Center North and Mount Sinai Hospital West, respectively.
IOM Service Director of Mount Sinai West Hospital (Since 2017) and Assistant Professor Icahn School of Medicine at Mountsinai ,Neurosurgery Department.
Collaborates with ISIN and other centers in Europe for IOM research
President of ISIN 2022-2024
Director of the IOM fellowship program at Mount Sinai West Hospital. The fellowship program was established by Dr. Vedran Deletis At NYU in 1988. Published 55 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Contributed book chapters in various IOM and Neurology Textbooks.
I did an Intraoperative neuromonitoring fellowship (2003-2006) and worked as an IOM Professional (2006-2017) at Beth Israel Medical Center North and Mount Sinai Hospital West, respectively.
IOM Service Director of Mount Sinai West Hospital (Since 2017) and Assistant Professor Icahn School of Medicine at Mountsinai ,Neurosurgery Department.
Collaborates with ISIN and other centers in Europe for IOM research
President of ISIN 2022-2024
Director of the IOM fellowship program at Mount Sinai West Hospital. The fellowship program was established by Dr. Vedran Deletis At NYU in 1988. Published 55 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Contributed book chapters in various IOM and Neurology Textbooks.
Kyung Seok Park, MD, PhD
Dr. Kyung Seok Park received his Medical degree from Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea. He was trained at Department of Neurology, Seoul National University Hospital, and completed one-year clinical neurophysiology/neuromuscular diseases Fellowship at the same hospital.
Dr. Park has been serving at Neuromuscular division of Department of Neurology, and also working as the Director of Clinical & Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Neurology at the same medical college. Dr. Park’s main research interests include neuromuscular/spinal diseases and clinical neurophysiology, particularly intraoperative neurophysiology. He has published 18 papers in this field in international peer-reviewed journals. He is the founding President of Asian-Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (AOSIN).
Dr. Park has been serving at Neuromuscular division of Department of Neurology, and also working as the Director of Clinical & Intraoperative Neurophysiology at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. He is currently a Professor of Neurology at the same medical college. Dr. Park’s main research interests include neuromuscular/spinal diseases and clinical neurophysiology, particularly intraoperative neurophysiology. He has published 18 papers in this field in international peer-reviewed journals. He is the founding President of Asian-Oceanian Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (AOSIN).
M. Gemma Pérez-Fajardo, MD
Gemma Pérez-Fajardo is Medical Doctor, graduated in Faculty of Medicine of Córdoba University (Spain) in June 2001. Her experience as Neurophysiologist includes 4 years in Clinical Neurophysiology as resident in COMPLEJO HOSPITALARIO DE TOLEDO, SPAIN. During her residency she was member of "Spanish National Commission of Clinical Neurophysiology" as representative of Clinical Neurophysiologist Residents 2006-2008. After concluding her residency, she did two-years Fellowship in Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring (IONM) at ST LUKE'S-ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL (SLRH) in NEW YORK at Intraoperative Monitoring Neurophysiology Department (October 1, 2008- October 2010), in the team of Dr. Vedran Deletis and Dr. Sedat Ulkatan. Since then, her professional interest and work in Clinical Neurophysiology has been in Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring field in Hospitals in Barcelona and Córdoba (SPAIN). She has experience in OR in Evoked Potentials areas including Sensory Evoked Potentials (SEP), Motor Evoked Potentials (MEP), Brainstem Auditory Evoked Responses (BAER), Visual Evoked Potentials (VEP), Reflexes, as well as other neurophysiological techniques and mapping techniques of central and peripheral nervous system. She develops her current work as Clinical Neurophysiologist attending, specialized in Intraoperative Neurophysiology Monitoring in HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA, in Córdoba, SPAIN. Participations as speaker in National Congresses and Meetings and International Courses. Co-author of the Consensus statement from the Spanish Society of Neurosurgery's (SENEC) Neuro-oncology Working Group and the Spanish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SENFC) "Neurophysiological monitoring options in brain tumor resections".
Member of Professional Societies at International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (ISIN), Spanish Society of Neurophysiological Intra-surgical Monitoring (AMINE), Spanish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SENFC), and Andalusian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (SANFC).
Position as "member of ISIN Education Committee" from November 2022 to present.
M. Gemma Pérez-Fajardo, MD
Clinical Neurophysiologist
Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring
Clinical Neurophysiology Department.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REINA SOFÍA, Córdoba, Spain
Dimitrios Kefalas
Mr Dimitrios Kefalas received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering (Athens, Greece). During his BSc he achieved several distinctions and he graduated with the best grade. At the same time, he developed a special interest in neurophysiology instrumentation, and he got involved in evoked potentials classification and medical signal and image processing research. He started his career in intraoperative neuromonitoring (IONM) in 2006. He earned a scholarship from the state scholarships foundation (Greece), and in 2011 he moved to Frankfurt (Germany) for his master studies in Neuroscience. His MSc thesis was in brain transcranial and intracranial electrical stimulation for motor monitoring and mapping, and he got awarded with the “Young investigator award” by the ISIN for presenting part of his MSc thesis (2013). He completed his IONM fellowship with Prof. Szelenyi in (Dusseldorf, Germany), where he got specialized in neurosurgical IONM (2013-2015). After the completion of his fellowship he moved to university hospital Mannheim (Germany), where he developed and lead the neurosurgical IONM service. In 2018, he moved to London, where he worked at Royal National Orthopedic Hospital (RNOH), the biggest orthopedic hospital in the UK, with the biggest IONM team across the UK, providing IONM in spinal and peripheral nerve procedures. He also provides complex brain, brainstem, and spinal IONM services and education across the UK. Since last summer, he works at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, leading and establishing the in-house IONM service. Mr Kefalas is an assessor at Health Education England, and he contributes in the development of the IONM scientist training program. He is also a member of a research ethics committee (Health Research Authority, UK), and a peer reviewer in several journals. He also got awarded for his outstanding contribution as a peer reviewer. Over the last a few years, Mr Kefalas has presented at over 20 national, European, and international meetings. Moreover, Mr Kefalas received his second and third MSc recently (Clinical Neurophysiology, Birmingham, UK; Medical Research Methodology, Thessaloniki, Greece). His current research interests include standardization of IONM instrumentation, and optimization of IONM methods to achieve real-time monitoring.
Dr. Klaus Novak
BORN:
1967 in Vienna, Austria
PROFESSION:
Neurosurgeon
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Implementation of intraoperative neurophysiology program and interdisciplinary functional neurosurgery including spinal cord stimulation, functional radiosurgery, deep brain stimulation and MRgFUS at Medical University of Vienna
EDUCATION:
1995-2001 Residency in Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna
2001-2003 Research Fellowship in Intraoperative Neurophysiology with Vedran Deletis at the Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, New York 2007 Post-graduate elective training: Deep Brain Stimulation for Movement Disorders at Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein
CURRENT POSITION:
Attending Neurosurgeon at the Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Head of Functional Neurosurgery and Director of Intraoperative Neurophysiology
