Portrait Lennart Stieglitz

Lennart Stieglitz
Prof. Dr. med.

Senior Attending Physician, Vice Director of Department, Department of Neurosurgery

Specialties

  • Functional neurosurgery
  • Intraoperative imaging and computer-assisted neurosurgery
  • Movement disorders

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 99 05

Other competencies

  • Hydrocephalus
  • Head of Functional Neurosurgery
  • Responsibility Performance coding
  • Responsibility for continuing medical education

Career

Since 2021 Vice Director of Department of Neurosurgery, USZ
Since 2017 Senior Attending Physician of the Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich
2013 – 2016 Attending Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich
2012 – 2013 Attending Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern
03/2012 Specialist (FMH) for neurosurgery
2011 – 2012 Fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern
2008 – 2011 Resident at the Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital Bern
2005 – 2008 Resident International Neuroscience Institute (INI) Hanover

Most important memberships

  • Swiss Society for Neurosurgery (SGN)
  • Swiss Movement Disorders Society (SMDS)
  • German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC)
  • European Association of Neurological Surgeons (EANS)
  • European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN)
  • Mocement Disorder Society (MDS)
  • World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN)

Research focus

  • Treatment of movement disorders through deep brain stimulation
  • Diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocepahlus
  • Development of a flow-measuring shunt valve for hydrocephalus treatment
  • Head of the DBS-SCI study (deep brain stimulation for spinal cord injuries)
  • Study management SPARS study (Swiss Prospective Autologous bone flap Resorption Study)
  • Study management NPH-wearables study (characterization of the gait pattern in normal pressure hydrocephalus)

Further

Consulting activities

  • Admirabiles Ltd, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
  • Brainlab AG, Feldkirchen, Germany
  • Insightec AG, Haifa, Israel
  • Integra AG, Saint Priest, France
  • Neuromedex GmbH, Hamburg, Germany