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    Amir Samii, MD, PhD

    Vice President
    International Neuroscience Institute Hannover

    Prof. Dr. med. Amir Samii was born in 1970 in Mainz, Germany.
    He has graduated from Hannover Medical School in 1995 and received his neurosurgical and neuroscience training at the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité - Humboldt University at Berlin, at the Brain Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery at the University of California Los Angeles and at the Department of Neurosurgery at Nordstadt Hospital Hannover.

    After his full board certification as neurosurgeon he joined the International Neuroscience Institute - Hannover as an attending neurosurgeon under the chairmanship of Prof. Madjid Samii, in 2003. He was nominated as Vice President and Deputy Medical Director of the International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover in 2008.
    Presently he serves also as Vice President of the China International Neuroscience Institute in Beijing, Head of the “Intraoperative Mapping and Visualization of the Human Brain” Program of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology-Magdeburg and as Professor of Neurosurgery at Hannover Medical School where he received the venia legendi for experimental neurosurgery and became Privatdozent (Associate Professor) already at the age of 31.

    Prof. Samii has published more than 200 peer reviewed scientific papers, numerous book chapters and he has editorial functions in several important neurosurgical journals. He is a Fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, received the Honorary Membership from several international neurosurgical societies and is Honorary Professor of the renowned Burdenko Institute in Moscow. He has served as invited speaker in scientific conferences and educational courses all over the world and made more than 250 presentations in the last 15 years. Prof. Samii has been Visiting Professor at distinguished international universities. He has served from 2013-2021 as member of the Administrative Council of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.

    Prof. Samii dedicated his early scientific work to experimental evaluations of the pathophysiology and neurometabolism of traumatic brain injury. During the last 25 years he has focused increasingly on the surgical integration and scientific evaluation of image-guided surgery and intraoperative visualization. In this context he developed cutting-edge concepts for hybrid operating rooms at INI-Hannover and internationally. In the last two and a half decades with several thousands of surgeries he has specialized in complex skull base surgery, in neuro-oncological surgery and minimal-invasive and complex spine surgery. Prof. Samii’s clinical and scientific contributions extended moreover into the field of hearing restoration with neurobionic implants (auditory midbrain and auditory nerve implants). In an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional effort he has received significant funding with competitive national and international grants.

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