Privatklinik Bethanien

Dr. med. Michel Schneider

Specialist in neurosurgery, FMH; especially spinal surgery;
Interdisciplinary focus on spinal surgery SGNC/SO

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Areas of specialisation (7)

Further accreditations (1)

Medizinisches Zentrum Haus zur Pyramide

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Rückenpraxis Seefeld
Seefeldstrasse 277a
8008 Zürich

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https://www.rueckenpraxis-seefeld.ch

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Michel Schneider, MD, specialist in neurosurgery, founded and heads the Rückenpraxis Seefeld Zurich. Dr. Schneider became fascinated by spinal surgery early on during his further training as a specialist in neurosurgery FMH. He specialised in complex cervical spine surgery during a fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada with Prof. Dr. M. Fehlings and at Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich with Prof. Dr. M. Farshad in orthopaedic spine surgery. Under Prof. M. Fehlings, Dr Schneider wrote research papers in the field of non-traumatic spinal cord injuries (cervical myelopathy) and received a «Best Paper» award out of over 1400 research papers from the North American Spine Society NASS in 2019.
As a speciality, M. Schneider, MD, is one of the few spine surgeons in Switzerland to offer endoscopic surgery on the spine, which enables very gentle operations with a skin incision of just a few millimetres.

Work Experience

Foundation of the Rückenpraxis Seefeld, Zurich

Attending physician at the Privatklinik Bethanien, Zurich

Attending physician, spinal surgery, Spital Zollikerberg, Zurich

Practice activity, spine practice Dr B. Wälchli, Zurich

Fellowship, neurosurgical spine surgery, especially cervical spine surgery, Toronto Western Hospital, CAN (Prof M. Fehlings)

Fellowship and debuty senior Physician, orthopaedic spine surgery, Universitätsspital Balgrist, Zurich (Prof M. Farshad)

Resident, neurosurgery, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen (Prof G. Hildebrandt, Prof A. Weyerbrock)

Resident, neurosurgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Zurich (PD Dr J. Oberle)

Resident, visceral, thoracic and vascular surgery, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Zurich (Prof M. Decurtins, Prof St. Breitenstein)

Research, University of California San Francisco, USA

Memberships

Ärztegesellschaft des Kantons Zürich, AGZ
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, SGNC
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Spinale Chirurgie, SGS
Global Academic Community In Spine Care, AO Spine
North American Spine Society, NASS
Spine Society of Europe, EUROSPINE

Competences

Endoscopic spinal interventions for disc herniations/ herniated discs
Complex cervical spine procedures from ventral/anterior and dorsal/ posterior for disc hernias, spinal canal stenosis, fractures
Complex revision surgery of the spine after previous operations
Special spinal surgery of the ventral, lumbar and thoracic spine
Minimally invasive and open stabilisation techniques/spondylodeses of the entire cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine for degenerative diseases and trauma
Microsurgical minimally invasive decompressions for disc hernias and spinal canal stenoses of the entire spine
Minimally invasive and stabilising interventions for osteoporotic or traumatic vertebral fractures (vertebroplasty, kyphoplasty and stabilisation)
Infections and metastases of the spine
Second opinions

Education

Endoscopy Spine AO Advanced Course

Specialty title, spine surgery SGNC/SO

Fellowship diploma, University of Toronto, CAN

Fellowship diploma, Universitätsspital Balgrist, Zurich

Specialist diploma, neurosurgery

Endoscopy Spine AO Basic Course

Doctorate, Dr med, University of Bern

Medical studies, state examination, University of Bern

Business informatics specialist, Bank Julius Baer, Zurich, Dr. W. Langnickel

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