Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Gasser

Neurosurgery

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Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Gasser grew up in Weinheim (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) and Cape Town (South Africa). After his final school exams (Abitur), he studied medicine at the Semmelweis University in Budapest (Hungary) and the Medical University Hospital in Essen (Germany). At that time he visited as intern several internationally recognized medical institutions, such as, the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

Prof. Dr. Gasser founded the faculty for functional neurosurgery and intraoperative imaging at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) as a senior physician from 2006. Since 2008 he is responsible for the Functional Neurosurgery at Essen University Hospital.

Employing state-of-the-art therapies for the treatment of pain and movement disorders (neuromodulation, e.g. spinal cord stimulation – SCS, deep brain stimulation – DBS) are his primary focus as a physician. Additionally, he is specialized in the microsurgical treatment of neuro-oncological, degenerative and vascular brain and spine diseases.

Prof. Dr. Gasser scientifically focuses on the application of complex imaging procedures in neurosurgery. 2005 he was awarded the International Exchange Grant of the German and Japanese Society of Neurosurgery, leading him to a successful scientific research project at Tokyo Women‘s Medical University (Japan).

His doctoral thesis with the title ‘The epidural scar formation after lumbar, intraspinal operations. An experimental examination on the diagnostic value of computer-and magnetic resonance tomography’ was followed after his specialization, by a postdoc thesis (Habilitation) on the development and clinical relevance of functional magnetic resonance imaging for neurosurgery. Since 2011 he is professor.

Prof. Dr. Gasser is author and co-author of more than 130 scientific publications, holds two patents for medicine products and regularly gives scientific lectures at international congresses. Furthermore, he is the scientific consultant and member of the scientific advisory board of Medtronic Navigation, Louisville, USA. Besides, he is member of several specialist associations: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (German Society of Neurosurgery), World Congress of Neurological Surgeons (WCNS) and World Society for Stereotaxy and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN).