Janine Abu-Isa, MD

Attending Physician

Janine Abu-Isa, MD, is a specialist in neurosurgery and has been a senior physician at the University Department of Neurosurgery at the Inselspital in Bern since 2014.

After studying human medicine…

Janine Abu-Isa, MD, is a specialist in neurosurgery and has been a senior physician at the University Department of Neurosurgery at the Inselspital in Bern since 2014.

After studying human medicine at the University of Göttingen, Germany, Janine Abu-Isa began her training at the Department of Neurosurgery at the Inselspital Bern in 2006. As part of her training, she completed a foreign year at the Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology in Bern and the Clinic for Neurosurgery at the Ospedale Civico in Lugano. Janine Abu-Isa also earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a focus on Health Care Management from the University of Salzburg, Austria, in 2019.


Languages: German, French, Italian, English

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Specialities

  • Treatment of degenerative, neoplastic and traumatic spinal diseases: microsurgical and minimally invasive procedures, spinal navigation, stabilizations of the spine
  • Pituitary surgery
  • Microsurgery of brain tumors including navigated, fluorescence-assisted and intraoperatively monitored procedures

Memberships

Professional experience

Seit 2017

Senior Physician I, University Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2016–2017

Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Ospedale Civico, Lugano (Prof. Michael Reinert)

2014–2016

Senior Physician II, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2013

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

2010–2013

Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)

2009

Resident, University Department of Neuroradiology, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Gerhard Schroth)

2006–2008

Resident, University Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Rolf Seiler, Prof. Andreas Raabe)

Education

2019

Master of Business Administration (MBA) with focus on Health Care Management, University of Salzburg, Austria

2006

PhD: «Antineuronal antibodies in Hashimoto's encephalitis» at the Center of Neurology, Georg-August-University Göttingen under the supervision of PD Dr. Inga Zerr

2005

Praktisches Jahr: Zentrum Innere Medizin, Abteilung Kardiologie und Pneumologie, Abteilung Gastroenterologie und Endokrinologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Inselspital Bern, Allgemeine Chirurgie, Taranaki Base Hospital, NP, Neuseeland

1997–2005

Study of human medicine at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany