Prof. Dr. med. Hans Clusmann

At the very beginning of his professional career, Dr. Clusmann worked for several years under the supervision of the outstanding German neurosurgeon, Professor Johannes Schramm. As part of his team, the future director of the Neurosurgery Department of Aachen University Hospital gained invaluable practical experience, particularly in the surgical treatment of epilepsy.

Since 2003 he has been a member of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), and was Germany delegate to EANS Professional Training Committee within 2014-2019. Prof. Klussmann is also a member of the scientific editorial board of the journal Deutsches Ärzteblatt, is a speaker and managing director of the Neurosurgical Academy (NCA), and a member of the Scientific Council of the German Federal Medical Association. His professional awards include the Hans Imhoff Research Award of the Faculty of Medicine at Cologne University and the research award of the German Society for Neurosurgery.

The clinical practice of Prof. Klusmann is extremely broad and is almost equally devided into spine and head surgery, the latter including treatment of brain tumors, skull base conditions, epilepsy, vascular diseases. His main research interests are neurovascular surgery, epilepsy, and movement disorders. In particular, his research group is working on methods of multimodal neuromonitoring of patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage and trauma, and developing new approaches to the analysis of the mechanisms of cervical myelopathy.

Education

• 1986 - 1993 Human Medicine Cologne University

Professional Experience

• 1991 Study stay University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
• 1994 Intern Neurophysiology Institute, Cologne University
• 1994 – 2001 Intern and Assistant Physician Physician Neurosurgery Department, Bonn University Hospital
• 1996 Obtaining a doctorate Cologne University
• 2001 Board certification in neurosurgery
• 2003-2010 Senior Physician Neurosurgery Department, Bonn University Hospital
• 2004 Venia legendi in Neurosurgery
• 2007 Additional specialization in Special Intensive Care
• since May 2010 Head of the Department for Neurosurgery Aachen University Hospital
• since 2015 Head of the Neuro-oncology Center at Aachen University Hospital

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