Kathleen Seidel, MD
Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel is a Professor and Senior Attending, for neurosurgery with a focus on tumor surgery and functional monitoring. Intraoperative neurophysiology was already an important part of Kathleen Seidel's clinical and academic work during her training as a…
Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel is a Professor and Senior Attending, for neurosurgery with a focus on tumor surgery and functional monitoring. Intraoperative neurophysiology was already an important part of Kathleen Seidel's clinical and academic work during her training as a specialist in neurosurgery. She has completed several international observerships (e.g. at UCSF in San Francisco, USA, and in Montpellier, France) as well as a fellowship at the Department of Intraoperative Neurophysiology and Neurosurgery under Professor Vedran Deletis in New York, USA.
Kathleen Seidel established the Department of Intraoperative Neurophysiology in the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Orthopaedics at Inselspital Bern in 2009 and has headed it ever since. International guest physicians regularly visit her department for IOM, and Kathleen Seidel is routinely invited as a guest speaker for neuromonitoring courses and international congresses. She is the Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Society of Neurosurgery (ISIN). She is also actively involved in setting up international neuromonitoring projects in Myanmar and other countries.
Her goal is to strengthen the field of intraoperative neurophysiology and to improve training and quality in order to increase patient safety during high-risk surgery.
Her main area of research is monitoring and mapping technologies in glioma tumor surgery and spinal cord tumors. She has published numerous key papers in these fields and is co-author of an important neuromonitoring book. In 2018, she received the Theodor Kocher Prize from the University of Bern in recognition of her exceptional and promising scientific achievements. In 2019, she was appointed Privatdozentin at the University of Bern and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.
Languages: German, French, English
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Specialities
- Head of the Department of Intraoperative Neurophysiology
- Head of the Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation working group
- Coordinator of the Neuro-Oncological Tumor Center
- Microsurgical operation of brain tumours with a focus on intraoperative functional localization and monitoring
- Clinical and scientific focus:
- Intraoperative neuromonitoring and mapping for gliomas in eloquent areas; continuous dynamic mapping; awake operations
- Functional monitoring during operations on the base of the skull and tumors of the brain stem
- Monitoring of spinal cord tumors and development of new mapping paradigms
- Pre- and postoperative analysis of the motor system using navigated TMS
- Development of new intraoperative functional monitoring methods for critical operations
Memberships
- DGNC – German Society for Neurosurgery (Member)
- FMH Swiss Medical Association (Member)
- EANS – European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (Member)
- ISIN – International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology (Scientific Committee Chair and Executive Board Member)
- SGNC – Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (Member)
- SNI – Swiss Neurosurgeons International (Member)
Professional experience
Senior Physician I, Department ofNeurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)
Focus: Intraoperative neurophysiology and neuro-oncological surgery
Senior Physician II, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)
Deputy Senior Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital (Prof. Andreas Raabe)
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern (Prof. Andreas Raabe)
International observerships:
University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Prof. Andrea Szelényi)
UCSF University of California in San Francisco, USA (Prof. Mitchel Berger)
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Montpellier, France (Prof. Hugues Duffau)
Resident, Neurology and Neurooncology, Fédération Neurologie-Mazarin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salêtrière, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France (Prof. Jean Yves Delattre)
Education
Appointment as Adjunct Professor of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring at the Neurosurgery Research Unit, Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark SDU