Work Experience

since 2024

Practice, Glatt Specialist Centre, Zurich

2021 - 2024

Practice partner at the Centre for Joint and Sports Surgery, Pyramid Clinic by the Lake

2019 - 2021

Section Head of Neurosurgery at Ansbach Hospital, certified oncology centre, trauma centre, complex spinal surgery, DE

2013 - 2018

Head of the Neurosurgery Section, Trauma Surgery Department, Altmühlfranken Hospital, Gunzenhausen, DE

2002 - 2015

Lecturer in Neurosurgery and Neurotraumatology, La Sapienza University, Rome

2010 - 2013

Head of Clinical Research and Technological Innovation in Neurosurgery, Department of Diseases of the Central and Peripheral Nervous System

2002 - 2013

Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Giovanni-Addolorata Hospital

2000 - 2001

Senior physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Local Health Service N° 4 of L'Aquila

1997 - 2000

Assistant doctor in the neurosurgery ward of the Military Polyclinic of Rome

1996 - 1997

Staff physician and assistant in the neurosurgery and neuropsychiatry ward of the Military Polyclinic of Rome

1987 - 1996

Head of medical services / various positions and training courses in the medical services of the Italian military

Memberships

  • Member of the German Society for Neurosurgery, DGNC
  • Member of the Societa' Italiana di Neurochirurgia, SINCH
  • Member of the German Spine Society, DWG
  • Member of the North American Spine Society, NASS
  • Member of the European Association Neurosurgical Societies, EANS

Education

2022

Master's certificate for spine from the German Spine Society (DWG) together with the German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC) and the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU); certificate number: 705

1998

Specialist in neurosurgery, University of Verona

1993

Doctorate (Laurea) in Medicine and Surgery, University of Florence

News

Great interest in the lecture on degenerative disc

Doctors with this specialisation

Privatklinik Bethanien

Prof. Dr. med. Guido Wanner

Specialisation
Orthopaedic surgery, Spinal surgery, Scoliosis and kyphosis (curvature of the spine), Osteoporosis – fractures in the spine, Spinal tumours and metastases on the spinal column, Spinal stenosis – narrowing of the spinal canal, Cervical spondylotic myelopathy, Slipped disc in the cervical spine – cervical disc herniation, Herniated disc in the thoracic spine, Herniated disc in the lumbar spine, Intervertebral disc prosthesis | Artificial intervertebral disc, General surgery View more
Privatklinik Bethanien

Dr. med. Edzard Ellerkmann

Specialisation
Pain therapy, Anesthesiology
Privatklinik Bethanien

Prof. Dr. med. Sebastian Weckbach

Specialisation
Spinal surgery
Privatklinik Bethanien

Dr. med. Jean Pierre J. Elsig

Specialisation
Spinal surgery, Neurosurgery
Privatklinik Bethanien

Dipl. med. Marius Philipp Thüne

Specialisation
Orthopaedic surgery, Spinal surgery
Privatklinik Bethanien

Dr. med. Hans-Jürgen Becker

Specialisation
Neurosurgery, Pain therapy, Spinal surgery, Scoliosis and kyphosis (curvature of the spine), Osteoporosis – fractures in the spine, Spinal tumours and metastases on the spinal column, Spinal stenosis – narrowing of the spinal canal, Cervical spondylotic myelopathy, Herniated disc in the thoracic spine, Slipped disc in the cervical spine – cervical disc herniation, Herniated disc in the lumbar spine, Intervertebral disc prosthesis | Artificial intervertebral disc View more