University Hospital Ulm
Ulm, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Rainer Wirtz
Department of Neurosurgery
The department of neurosurgery at University Hospital Ulm is one of the largest neurosurgical clinics with its two federal locations Ulm (Baden-Württemberg) and Günzburg (Bavaria). The Department has a broad surgical spectrum and dedicates itself to medical care as well as university research and teaching at the highest level. In addition to intensive experimental basic research, doctors participate in conducting clinical trials for the development of new therapies.
The department of neurosurgery at the university hospital of Ulm focuses on the following treatment:
- Surgical treatment of brain tumors
- Vascular neurosurgery
- Neurotraumatology
- Spine surgery
- 1980 - 1986 Study of Human Medicine at the Rhine-Westphalian Technical Aachen University.
- 1992 Doctoral thesis defense and title of Doctor of Medicine, Rhine-Westphalian Technical Aachen University.
Professional Activity
- 1986 - 1987 One-year practice at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and at the University Hospital Aachen.
- 1989 Starting of work as the Assistant Physician/Research Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg (Prof. Dr. med. S. Kunze).
- 1997 - 2005 Senior Physician in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 2001 Habilitation. Subject: "Surgical interventions using imaging systems in neurosurgery. Neuronavigation and intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging".
- 05.2005 Appointed as a Leading Senior Physician in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 19.09.2006 Visiting Professor, Heidelberg University.
- 01.09.2009 Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Ulm.
Awards and Honors
- 2001 Educational prize of the Faculty of Medicine at the Heidelberg University.
Memberships
- Since 2004, Deputy Head of the Scientific and Pedagogical Department at the Neurosurgical Academy of Education and Advanced Training of the German Society of Neurosurgery.
- 2001 Founding Member of the German Society for Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery (CURAC).
Main Research Focuses
- Computer-assisted surgery.
- Intraoperative navigation, neuronavigation, multimodal navigation.
- Neuro-oncology.
- Intraoperative imaging with the help of MRI and intraoperative sonography.
Department of Neurosurgery
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