Team

Career

2017 – present

Specialist practice for back medicine and neurosurgery with in-patient doctor activity at the Salem Hospital in Bern

2015 – 2017

Senior Physician for Spinal Surgery, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich

2011 – 2015

Senior Physician in Neurosurgery Clinic, University Hospital of Basel 2007–2011

2007 – 2011

Further training to become a specialist in neurosurgery at the University of Basel

2004 – 2007

Further training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the Cantonal Hospital in Chur (traumatology, spinal surgery, orthopaedics) and at the SUVA Rehabilitation Clinic in Bellikon (neurology, neurorehabilitation)

1999 – 2004

Visiting Fellow, National Institutes of Health (NIH), US, Surgical Neurology Branch (SNB), Swiss MD–PhD programme

Schools, studies, and diplomas

2004

Visiting Fellow Award for Research Excellence NIH: Stem cell and tumour research. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, US.

2010

1st prize for best poster: Swiss Society of Neurosurgery (stem cell and tumour research). SFCNS conference, University of Basel.

2012

1st prize, Abcam: Best scientific image of 2012 using an Abcam product

2014

Dirk Schäfer Prize, University Hospital of Basel: For outstanding scientific achievements in the field of surgical research (stem cell and tumour research)

2000

Doctorate in medicine, grade “Summa cum Laude”

2008

Certification as Swiss Radiation Protection Expert

2013

Certification for Intraoperative Neuromonitoring

2014

European Spine Course Diploma

2018

Swiss certified expert for neurosurgery/spinal surgery (Swiss Insurance Medicine, SIM)

2015

Specialist for Interventional Pain Management, Spine (Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management, SSIPM)

2011

Specialist Diploma in Neurosurgery (Federation of Swiss Doctors)

1992 – 1998

Studied human medicine at the University of Zürich (ERASMUS exchange at the University of Tübingen, Germany)