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Prof. Dr. med. Steffen K. Rosahl
Neurosurgery

Prof. Dr. med. Steffen K. Rosahl

Chief Physician

Clinical Focus & Subspecialties

  • Vascular neurosurgery
  • Skull base surgery (cerebellopontine angle, tumours)
  • Endoscopic skull base surgery (hypophyseal adenomas)
  • Brain tumours and brain metastases
  • Degenerative spinal diseases and tumours of the spinal column and the spinal cord (slipped disc, spinal stenosis)
  • Peripheral nerves
  • Paediatric neurosurgery
  • Craniocerebral trauma, spinal cord injury
  • Neurosurgical intensive care medicine
  • Neuroprosthetics
  • Acoustic nerve neurinoma
  • Neurofibromatis
  • Meningioma
  • Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation
  • Facial spasm
  • Trigemial neuralgia
  • Acoustic nerve neurinoma
  • NF2
  • Syringomyelia, hydromyelia, Arnold-Chiari malformation

Curriculum Vitae

1984 – 1990
Studied Human Medicine in Halle and Jena
1990 Medical license (Approbation)
1990 – 1992
Research Assistant / University Lecturer, Institute of Physiology, FSU Jena
1992 – 1993
Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Department of Neurology, VA Medical Center, Martinez, USA
1993 – 1999
Specialist training in Neurosurgery, Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital, Hanover
1999
Board-certified Neurosurgeon
2000
Senior Physician, International Neuroscience Institute (INI), Hanover
2002
Senior Physician in a leading role in Neurosurgery at INI
2003
Habilitation ("Electrical Deep Brain Stimulation of the Cochlear Nucleus") and Venia Legendi in Neurosurgery
2003 – 2006
Senior Consultant and Deputy Director of the Department of General Neurosurgery, Freiburg; also Lecturer at the department
2005
Appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Freiburg
Since 2006
Deputy Chairman of the Neuroprosthetics Committee, DGBMT (VDE)
Since 2006
Head of the Skull Base Group Erfurt / Lecturer at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and TU Ilmenau
Since 2006 Chief Physician of the Neurosurgery Clinic, Helios Hospital Erfurt
2008
Secretary of the Neuro and Head Center, Helios Hospital Erfurt
Since 2015 Deputy Head of the Neuro-oncology Center at Helios Hospital Erfurt

Academic Activities & Research

Параллельно с практической деятельностью Д-р Розаль активно занимается научными исследованиями в Германии и других странах.
В 1999-2002 руководил групповым исследованием на тему «Биосовместимость вставных электродов (INSEL) с глубокой электрической стимуляцией кохлеарного ядра».
В 2004 году был назначен в Научный консультативный совет Европейской академии изучения последствий научно-технических разработок. Тема: «Вмешательство в мозг: изменение психики и общества».
2006 — сертификация в «Центре повышения квалификации в нейрохирургическом образовании» Европейской ассоциацией нейрохирургических обществ (EANS).
С 2013 года является членом Научно-консультативного совета Общества хирургии основания черепа, а с 2017 — членом Медицинского консультативного совета Ассоциации изучения акустической нейромы.
Немецкое общество нейрохирургии ( DGNC)
Европейское общество хирургии основания черепа (ESBS)
Общество хирургии основания черепа (GSB)
Немецкое общество клинической нейрофизиологии и функциональной визуализации (DGKN)
Конгресс неврологических хирургов
Немецкая междисциплинарная ассоциация интенсивной терапии и неотложной медицины (DIVI)
Профессиональная ассоциация немецких нейрохирургов (BDNC)

Professional Memberships

  • 2008 — Scientific Advisory Board, German Cochlear Implant Society (DCIG) e.V
  • 2008 — Scientific Advisory Board, German Society for Syringomyelia and Chiari Malformation (Deutsche Syringomyelie und Chiari Malformation e.V., DSCM) and foundation of the Center for Syringomyelia at Helios Klinikum Erfurt, Germany
  • 2008 — Scientific Advisor of the German Bundestag (TAB) to assess the consequences of new technologies in neural prosthetics
  • 2009 — Scientific Advisory Board, Oncology Center Erfurt, Germany
  • 2009 — Advisory Board of the European Skull Base Society (ESBS)
  • 2010 — Co-Chairman and organizer of the 18th Meeting of the German Society of Skull Base Surgery, Erfurt, Germany
  • 2010 — Vice Chairman, Medical Scientific Society (Medizinisch-wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V., MWG), Erfurt, Germany
  • 2010 — Scientific Advisory Board, Neurofibromatosis II Association, Germany
  • 2010 — Vice Chairman, Task Force «Neural Prosthetics» of the German Society for Biomedical Technology (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Biomedizinische Technik, DGBMT in the German Engineering Association (Verband der Ingenieure, VDI)
  • 2011 — Chief Editor Neurosurgery, Thieme-ProCompliance, Europe
  • 2012 — Introduction of the «Modular Course for Neurosurgical Nurses» (Pflege in der Neurochirurgie, PiN), Helios, Germany
  • 2013 — Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Skull Base Society (Gesellschaft für Schädelbasischirurgie, GSB)
  • 2013 — Founder and Chairman, Neurofibromatosis Center (certified by ORPHANET), Erfurt, Germany
  • 2014 — First skull base interventions under 3D digital microscope vision in Germany (Supervision, Visionsense), Helios Erfurt, Germany
  • 2015 — Co-Founder and Vice Chairman of the Neurooncological Center (certified by Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft, DKG in 2016), Helios Hospital Erfurt, Germany
  • 2016 — Medical advisor and name giver for the first German smartphone patient portal hello (Helios LogOn)
  • 2017 — Member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Acoustic Neurinoma Association (Vereinigung Akustikusneurinom, VAN)