Andreas Raabe, MD

Professor, Director and Chief Physician

Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe, MD specializes in brain tumors surgery, aneurysms and spinal diseases. To protect important motor functions during brain surgery, Andreas Raabe has developed a new continuous monitoring method. He has also introduced microscope-integrated…

Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe, MD specializes in brain tumors surgery, aneurysms and spinal diseases. To protect important motor functions during brain surgery, Andreas Raabe has developed a new continuous monitoring method. He has also introduced microscope-integrated video-angiography to neurosurgery for the operation of aneurysms and vascular malformations. For the development of these innovative surgical procedures, he received the prestigious “European Lecture” award from the European Society of Neurosurgery in 2019.

In September 2020, Andreas Raabe together with two scientists from Carl Zeiss Meditec Inc. was nominated for the German Future Prize for the development of an innovative robotic visualization system in neurosurgery.

His professional training and specialization was supplemented and deepened during annual stays at renowned universities abroad. Andreas Raabe is a regular speaker at national and international courses or congresses, especially on topics such as training, surgical techniques, innovations in surgery, aneurysms and brain tumors.

Andreas Raabe is a member of several national and international professional societies and a reviewer for the most important international journalist in the field of neurosurgery. He is also a reviewer for the Swiss National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation.

Professor Raabe`s list of publications includes more than 360 original papers, reviews or book contributions.


Languages: German, English

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Specialities

  • Brain tumors microsurgical operation, navigated and monitored brain surgery near important brain areas with functional neuronavigation and continuous motor monitoring as well as dynamic mapping.
  • Aneurysms surgery, advice on the procedure for aneurysms found by chance
  • Spinal canal stenosis and herniated discs microsurgical operations
  • Focus on safety through modern intraoperative techniques
    • Structural, functional and vascular neuronavigation
    • Intraoperative new imaging (ICG and %-ALA fluorescence imaging)
    • Functional mapping and monitoring (IOM) during brain surgery
    • Surgical interventions while the patient is awake

Research Focus

  • Intraoperative new imaging and navigation
  • New methods of functional monitoring during brain surgery
  • Intelligent robotics for spinal surgery (Zero Morbidity Project)
  • New knowledge technologies for medicine

Memberships

Awards

2020

"Nomination for the German Future Prize": robotic visualization system-efficiency in microsurgery; Raabe A, Masini M, Seitzinger F.

2019

«European Lecture Award»: Congress of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies 2019

Professional experience

Seit 2008

Director and Chief Physician of the Department of Neurosurgery at Inselspital, Bern

1999–2008

Senior Physician and Deputy Director of the Department of Neurosurgery, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

1997–1999

Specialist and senior physician at the Neurosurgical University Hospital Leipzig, Germany

1997

Research stay at Addenbrokes Hospital, University of Cambridge, England

1990

Development aid primary health care in Managua, Nicaragua

Education

1990–1996

Further training in the field of Neurosurgery at Chemnitz Hospital, Germany

1986–1990

Study of human medicine at the Medical Academy Carl-Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany

1984–1986

Study of dental medicine at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany