Beta Clinic Bonn


Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Thomas Gasser
Department of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery at Beta clinic Bonn provides surgical care for patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The department offers state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics for the management of neurological disorders. The medical staff of the department consists of specialists who are skilled in using microscopic and endoscopic intervention as well as neuromodulation methods for the treatment of various spinal diseases.
Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Med. Thomas Gasser, the department directs special attention towards vascular diseases of the nervous system such as aneurysms and carotid stenosis. The department offers modern surgical techniques through minimally invasive procedures which improve the outcome and reduce the complications of the intervention.
The Department of Neurosurgery at Beta clinic Bonn is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Headache
- Dystonia
- Tremors
- Dizziness
- Brain tumors
- Parkison’s disease
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Morton’s disease
- Tinnitus
- Back pain
- Tarsal tunnel syndrome
- Schwannoma
- Herniated disc
- Spinal stenosis
- Osteoporosis
- Carotid stenosis
- Stroke
- Prof. Thomas Gasser studied medicine at the Ignaz-Semmelweis University in Budapest, the Essen University Hospital, and had many pieces of training abroad. He was a Visiting Physician at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. He followed on from his license to practice medicine with his Ph.D. on epidural scarring after the lumbar intraspinal intervention. Then he had his training as a Medical Specialist with the habilitation in the development and clinical relevance of functional magnetic resonance imaging in neurosurgery.
- He founded the Faculty of Functional Neurosurgery and Intraoperative Imaging at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) and has been responsible for the Faculty of Functional Neurosurgery at the Essen University Hospital since 2008.
- The application of state-of-the-art therapies for the treatment of pain and movement disorders (neuromodulation, for example, spinal cord stimulation, deep brain stimulation) are his primary focuses as a physician. Additionally, he specializes in the microsurgical treatment of neuro oncological, degenerative, and vascular brain and spine diseases.
- Prof. Gasser scientifically focuses on the application of complex imaging procedures in neurosurgery.
- In 2005, he was awarded the International Exchange Grant of the German and Japanese Society of Neurosurgery, leading him to a successful scientific research project at Tokyo Women‘s Medical University (Japan).
- Prof. Gasser is author and co-author of more than 130 scientific publications, holds two patents for medical products, and regularly gives scientific lectures at international congresses.
- Furthermore, he is the Scientific Consultant and Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Medtronic Navigation, Louisville, USA. He is also a member of several specialized associations: German Society of Neurosurgery, World Congress of Neurological Surgeons (WCNS), and World Society for Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN).