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    Marcos S. Tatagiba

    Chairman
    Department of Neurosurgery and Neurotechnology. Universitätsklinik Tübingen.

    Professor Marcos Tatagiba is currently the Chairman and Director of the Department of Neurosurgery of the University of Tübingen, Germany.
    Medical study at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Neurosurgical Training at the Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Hannover Nordstadt, Germany, under the Chairmanship of Professor Madjid Samii. Board of Neurosurgery in March 1993 with German and European Certificate. Doctoral thesis (Dr.med.) in 1992 and post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) in 1998 at the Hannover Medical School. 1995-1996 Research fellow at the Institute of Brain Research, University of Zurich (Prof. Martin E. Schwab) as recipient of the Research Fellowship Program of the European Science Foundation. 1998-2002 Associate Professor, Hannover Medical School and International Neuroscience Institute (INI) Hannover. 2002-2003, Vice-Chairman Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg, Germany.
    Since 2003 Chairman and Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Tübingen. 2006, appointed as Chairman and Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
    Major prizes: Young Neurosurgeon Award of the WFNS (1997), EANS_Aesculap Prize (2001), Innovation Prize on Medizintechnik, Federal Ministry of Science – BMBF (2007). President, German Academy of Neurosurgery (2013). President, German Skull Base Societies (2014-2015). Head of International Affairs, German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC). Member of the World Academy of Neurosurgical Societies (WANS). Honorary International Member, Brazilian Academy of Military Medicine. 2017, Keller Lecturer, University of Cincinnati Department of Neurosurgery, USA. 2018, Snellman Lecturer, Finish Society of Neurosurgery. 2020, Honorary Member of the Colombian Society of Neurosurgery. 2023, Honorary Member of the Southeast Europe Neurosurgical Society (SeENS). Congress President of German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) in 2023. 2024, Doctor Honoris causa (Dr.h.c.) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Member and Honorary Member of further 20 national and international Societies. Author and Co-author of more than 500 peer-review articles, 15 books and 40 book chapters. HI=72

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