Department of Neurosurgery

The Department of Neurosurgery at Inselspital is a leading center for the surgical treatment of diseases of the brain and spine. Here, you will find an insight into our work and convenient ways to contact our team. Welcome!

Our medical focus areas

Satisfaction
Top marks from our patients
Excellence
Certified Brain Cancer & Spine Center
Innovation
State-of-the-art surgery technologies such as monitoring and mapping
Dreidimensionales Bild zeigt Ultraschallwellen, die sich in einem Zielpunkt im Inneren des Schädels treffen

New in the canton of Bern: MR-guided focused ultrasound

This modern procedure for treating tremors, Parkinson's disease, and neuropathic pain does not require any surgical incisions.

Foto des Tumor-Boards

Certified Brain Tumor Center

In our weekly tumor board, an interdisciplinary team of specialists determines the optimal therapy for each patient.

Surgery with real-time images

Making the invisible visible: Three of our operating rooms are equipped with MRI, CT and angiography to provide imaging when it matters most – during surgery.

Second opinion

Do you have any questions or are you unsure? Then get a well-founded second opinion from our specialists.

Second opinion

International patients

Our Insel International Center is on hand to provide helpful assistance with all organizational matters.

International patients

Jobs & Career

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge in the field of neurosurgery?
 

Jobs & Career

News

Schematische Darstellung einer minimalinvasiven Kraniotomie mit IONM

SNS support for mapping language networks in the brain

– The SNSF is supporting a bilateral research project with CHF 298,000, promoting groundbreaking research into more precise mapping of language networks in the brain.

New to the Swiss Stroke Committee Task Force

– Prof. David Bervini, MD, has been newly appointed to the Swiss Stroke Committee Task Force. With this appointment, he will play a significant role in the further…

SNF funds innovative stroke research at Inselspital Bern

– Congratulations on the SNF grant for stroke research at the Bern Neurocenter! The team has been awarded CHF 1.9 million for the Space Shield study, which is testing…

New senior physicians in neurosurgery

– Prof. Kathleen Seidel, MD, and Prof. David Bervini, MD, will be appointed to the senior medical staff on September 1, 2025. The Department of Neurosurgery…

Fusing AI and Robotics: The Evolution of the Surgical Microscope

– AI and robotics in microsurgery: Inselspital and Carl Zeiss Meditec team up.

World Brain Tumor Day 2025 – behind the scenes with a radiation oncologist

– June 8 is World Brain Tumor Day – an occasion to raise awareness of the challenges and advances in the treatment of brain tumors. As a radiation oncologist…

Media tips

Podcast Aneurysm

– Media tip! Listen to the PRIMO MEDICO Specialist Talk with Prof. Andreas Raabe, MD, on the topic of aneurysms (recorded in German)

Behind the scenes – a report from the operating room

– Join our film crew as they shadow the doctors from Neurology and Neurosurgery during a deep brain stimulation procedure.

Behind the scenes – cutting-edge medicine for children

– Our film team accompanied an international team of neurosurgeons and ENT specialists during the demanding and innovative ABI operation.

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