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Kathleen Seidel, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Intraoperative Neurophysiology
Kathleen Seidel, MD, PhD is a Professor and Senior Attending Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland. Prof. Dr. med. Kathleen Seidel, is board certified neurosurgeon, staff physician specialized in neurooncological surgery and professor of the Department of neurosurgery at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. Since 2008 at the Inselspital, she has established the unit of intraoperative neurophysiology (IONM). After a fellowship in IONM with Vedran Deletis and Sedat Ulkatan in New York, she is providing training to other professionals, hosting international observers and focusing on advance of IONM modalities to improve patient safety in technical high-risk surgeries. Providing expertise in neurosurgery and intraoperative neurophysiology, she is a routinely invited speaker at international courses and congresses. She has published numerous IONM papers and key papers concerning subcortical brain mapping and mapping of the spinal cord. She is contributed to many book chapters and is co-editor of an IONM book. Recently, she was awarded with the prestigious Theodor Kocher Prize of Bern University, which honors its best academics across its faculties for their exceptional and innovative scientific achievements. Currently, she serves as the president of the society of intraoperative neurophysiology (ISIN).