Department of Neurosurgery at University Hospital Tübingen

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University Hospital Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Marcos Tatgiba

Department of Neurosurgery

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Neurosurgery at University Hospital Tübingen provides surgical care for patients with diseases of the central and peripheral nervous systems. The department has an experienced medical team that has assets to treat the full range of neurological diseases and it is the leading center for interventions regarding the treatment of skull, pituitary gland, and peripheral nervous system diseases. The department directs special attention to the diagnosis and treatment of brain tumors where the treatment plan developed is specifically made for each patient depending on the site of a tumor, histological structure, neurological symptoms, and patient age, all according to the international standards and protocol.
The department has a general ward of 75 beds where over 2,800 inpatients are treated and 5 state-of-the-art operating theaters where around 3,000 operations are performed every year under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Marcos Tatgiba. The Pediatric Neurosurgery Center of the department is a multi-disciplinary center where specialists of neurosurgery and other pediatric departments work together to ensure patients get optimal care.

The department is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Diffuse gliomas
•   Vestibular schwannoma
•   Meningioma
•   Lymphoma
•   Sellar tumor
•   Vascular malformations of the cerebral vessels
•   Hydrocephalus
•   Epilepsy
•   Craniosynostosis
•   Spastic syndrome
•   Moyamoya disease
•   Neurofibromatosis

1980 - 1985 Study of Medicine at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil.
1986 Fellowship at Institute for Pathology, Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover.
1987 - 1993 Residency Program in Neurosurgery (Department of Neurosurgery, Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover.
1992 Doctoral thesis defense at the Hannover Medical School.
1993 Board of Neurosurgery at the Medical Chamber of Lower Saxony, Germany.
1994 - 1997 Staff Member of the Department of Neurosurgery, Nordstadt Hospital, Hannover.
1995 Research Fellow at the Institute for Brain Research, University of Zurich.
01/98 - 09/02 Staff Member at the Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School.
1998 Postdoctoral Thesis at the Hannover Medical School.
10/00 - 09/02 Vice Director at the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) Hannover.
10/02 - 09/03 Vice Director, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg.
05/2003 Visiting Professor at the Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurological Surgery and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI (USA).
2003 Appointed as the Director and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
2006 Appointed as the Chairman and Director at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich.
Since 2006, Local Director of the annual ATCHYN Program between the Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery and the University of Tuebingen, Department of Neurosurgery.

Major Prizes and Honors

1997 Young Neurosurgeon Award, World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
2001 Aesculap/EANS Prize, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies.
2001 Academic Adviser of Jiangyin International Cooperative Neuro-Center, Southeast University School of Medicine, China.
2002 Prize of the Neurosurgical Research Foundation, German Society of Neurosurgery.
2003 Visiting Professor at the Wayne State University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI (USA).
2007 Innovationspreis Medizintechnik – Federal Ministry of Educationa and Science (BMBF), Germany.
2010 Visiting Professor, People’s Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of the University of Peking, Peoples Republic of China.
2013 Comenda Estrela Spica da Educacao e Cultura, Capitulo Norte da Academia Brasileira de Neurocirurgia.
2016 Keller Lecturer 2016, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA.

Membership of Scientific and Medical Societies

Member of the German Society of Neurosurgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie).
Member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS-USA).
Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS-USA).
Member (Titular) da Sociedade Brasileira de Neurocirurgia.
Member of the Brazilian Academy of Neurosurgery.
Honory Member of Centro de Estudos da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Belo Horizonte.
Member of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery.
Member of the Executive Committee of the German Skull Base Society, Treasurer.
Member of the European Skull Base Society.
Member of the German Academy of Neurosurgery (GANS).
Member of the European Neurological Society.
Member of the Academia Eurasiana.
Past-President of the German Academy of Neurosurgery.
Past-President, German Skull Base Society.