Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Meixensberger

• since 2008 Vice-President German Society of Neurosurgery
• 2005 - 2008 Dean of Medical Faculty University Leipzig
• since 2004 Director of the Board Innovation Center Computer-assisted Surgery
• since 2001 Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany
• 1998 – 2001 Professor of Neurosurgery; Neurosurgical Intensive  Care, Neuromonitoring, Department of Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany
• 1996 – 2001 Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery: Vascular Surgery,
  Tumor Surgery, Spine Surgery, Neurointensive Cure,
  Department of  Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany
• 1993 / 1994 Habilitation (Qualification for teaching at a German University)
• 1990 – 1995 Staff Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany
• 1990 Medical Specialist (Neurosurgery)
• 1983 – 1990 Residency Training, Department of Neurosurgery, Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg, Germany
• 1985 Promotion Dr. med. (summa cum laude)
• 1976 – 1982 Study of Medicine, Approbation at the Julius-Maximilians-University, Würzburg

In the context of the neurooncological concept in the department of neurosurgery a bright spectrum of brain tumors in children and adults are treated with microsurgery. Aside from tumors of the skull base (acoustic neurinoma, hypophysial tumours) attention is given to the tumors of the brain (glioma) and the cerebral membrane (meningioma).

The treatment of cerebrovascular diseases (aneurysms, angioma) includes interventional, neuroradiological therapies.

Functional therapies are also established, e.g. implantation of brain pacemaker in Parkinson’s disease or the implantation of stimulators and pumps in cases of pain or spasticity disorders. They are apllied in an interdisciplinary neurological context.

Another issue is the neurosurgery of the spinal cord with application of minimal-invasive as well as instrumental surgical techniques. Treatments with this respect include: deformations, vascular- and tumour diseases, slipped disc, but also osseous diseases, which lead to a spinal cord or nerve root compression.

The scientific activities are concentrated in the area of neurooncology and the adavancement of monitoring of the brain and neuronal functions. This should enable function-oriented surgical strategies and conceive new perioperative therapies. The main goal of interdisciplinary research is the development of computer-assisted surgical approaches.