Anna Katharina Krähenbühl, MD

Attending Physician

Anna Katharina Krähenbühl, MD, began her training as a specialist in neurosurgery in 2003 at the University Hospital Zurich under Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Yonekawa, continued in Bern under Prof. Dr. Rolf…

Anna Katharina Krähenbühl, MD, began her training as a specialist in neurosurgery in 2003 at the University Hospital Zurich under Prof. Dr. Yasuhiro Yonekawa, continued in Bern under Prof. Dr. Rolf Seiler and Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe, and obtained the title of specialist in neurosurgery in 2010. She deepened her interest in minimally invasive techniques, especially neuroendoscopy and endoscopically assisted procedures, as well as skull base surgery during a one-year residency at Greifswald University Hospital under the direction of Prof. Dr. Henry Schroeder.

Anna Katharina Krähenbühl is a member of the Swiss Society of Neurosurgery and regularly continues her education during national and international congresses and stays abroad. In 2018, she took over as head of pituitary surgery at Inselspital.


Languages: German, French, English

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Specialities

  • Pituitary surgery
  • Neuroendoscopy and endoscopically assisted microsurgery
  • Skull base surgery in cooperation with ENT and maxillofacial surgery
  • Neurovascular decompression especially for hemispasm facialis
  • Microsurgical treatment of brain tumors including navigated, fluorescence-assisted and intraoperatively monitored procedures
  • Microsurgical treatment of degenerative spinal diseases and spinal tumors

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Professional experience

Seit 2018

Head of the Pituitary Surgery at the Inselspital

2010–2011

Senior physician at the University Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2008–2010

Deputy Senior Physician at the University Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2006–2008

Resident at the Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Rolf Seiler and Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2005–2006

Resident, General Surgery, Spitäler Chur AG/Cantonal Hospital Chur (Prof. Markus Furrer)

2003–2005

Resident, Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Yasuhiro Yonekawa)

Education

2011–2012

Fellowship Neuroendoscopy/Skull Base Surgery, Department of Neurosurgery, University Medical Center Greifswald, Germany (Prof. Henry Schroeder)

2010

Specialist in neurosurgery

1997–2003

Studies in human medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich, graduation with federal state examination