Claudio Pollo, MD
Prof. Claudio Pollo, MD, is a specialist in neurosurgery and has been Deputy Chief of Neurosurgery at Inselspital since 2012. There he is primarily responsible for the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s or tremor, as well as pain disorders. Claudio Pollo is a specialist in deep brain stimulation (DBS).
He completed his professional training…
Prof. Claudio Pollo, MD, is a specialist in neurosurgery and has been Deputy Chief of Neurosurgery at Inselspital since 2012. There he is primarily responsible for the treatment of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s or tremor, as well as pain disorders. Claudio Pollo is a specialist in deep brain stimulation (DBS).
He completed his professional training and specializations at the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV) and at several universities abroad. He also completed a course in biomedical engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).
Claudio Pollo´s publication list includes more than 100 original papers, reviews or book contributions. His research projects, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI), focus on the Deep Brain Stimulation modelling and development of new technologies for brain function interference and modulation.
As a member of several national and international professional societies he is active in further education and teaching in the field of functional neurosurgery and epilepsy neurosurgery.
Claudio Pollo is married and father of two children.
Languages: German, French, Italian, English
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Specialities
- Neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders (Parkinson’s disease, tremor, dystonia)
- Neurosurgical therapy for trigeminal neuralgia and chronic pain (postoperative back pain or failed back surgery syndrome, cluster headache, pain after stroke)
- Neurosurgical treatment of refractory psychiatric disorders (Tourette’s syndrome, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder)
- Neurosurgical treatment of epilepsy and associated brain lesions (brain tumors, dysplasia, malformations, cavernomas and vascular malformations)
- Microsurgical brain operation with functional neuronavigation and continuous motor or dynamic mapping, navigated and supervised brain surgery
- Percutaneous balloon compression and microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia therapy
- Stereotactic brain surgery (biopsies, deep brain stimulation, laser therapy, radiosurgery)
- Percutaneous and microsurgical spinal cord stimulation
- Microsurgical therapy of herniated discs and spinal canal stenosis
- Development and advancement of new technologies in deep brain stimulation, laser therapy with the claim of minimal invasiveness and optimized effectiveness.
Projects
- Dynamic Multimodal DBS Programming Tool for Parkinson’s disease
- Cellular Determinants of the STN Function (Sinergia Project, Swiss National Science Foundation)
Memberships
- ESSFN – European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (Member of Executive Boards)
- Parkinson Switzerland (Member )
- SGNC – Swiss Society for Neurosurgery (Member)
- WSSFN – World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (Member of Board of Directors)
- Wyss Center Geneva (Consultant Member )
Awards
Finalist Swiss Medtech Award: development of a DBS system for directional DBS in humans
«Best Paper Award»: Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurologie 2016: Directional Deep Brain Stimulation: An Intraoperative Double-blind Pilot Study; Pollo C, Kaelin-Lang A, Oertel MF, Stieglitz L, Taub E, Fuhr P, Lozano AM, Raabe A, Schüpbach M
«ESSFN Award»: Congress of European Society for Stereotactic and functional Neurosurgery 2008: Exploration of the Mechanisms Underlying STN DBS for PD by Computer Model and Analysis of the Electrophysiological Response of the Brain to Stimulation
Professional experience
Deputy Head of the Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)
Senior Consultant at the Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, Lausanne
Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, Lausanne
Research stay at Inserm (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale,) Paris and at the Neurosurgical University Hospital, Grenoble, France (Prof. Alim Louis Benabid)
Auslandsaufenthalt, Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, UCL, Belgien
Education
Training for Master Biomedical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, CHUV, Lausanne (Prof. Jean-Guy Villemure)
Study of human medicine at the University of Geneva