Chief of Department
University Clinic Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
Claudius Thomé is Full professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Medical University Innsbruck since 2010. After completing his medical education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany and at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford/Ca., USA he received his residency training at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg, Campus Mannheim (Chairman: Prof. Dr. P. Schmiedek) (1995-2001). He completed several fellowships: 2nd Institute of Physiology, University of Heidelberg; Dept. of Orthopedics, Klinikum Karlsbad-Langensteinbach; Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, USA; and, Department of Neurosurgery, Mayfield Clinic, University of Cincinnati, USA. His professoral thesis was entitled “Evidence-based spine surgery: Evaluation of new surgical techniques using randomized studies” (2005).
Dr. Thomé’s surgical specialties are: cerebrovascular surgery, skull base surgery and both minimal-invasive and complex spine surgery, and his main research fields are: evidence-based and minimally invasive spine surgery plus regenerative medicine in spinal disease, complex spine surgery with a focus on adult deformity surgery as well as cerebrovascular diseases, neurotrauma, neurocritical care and neurooncology.
Dr. Thomé is Past President of the Austrian Society of Neurosurgery, the Austrian Society of Surgery and of the Austrian Spine Society. He served as Chairman of the Spine Section of the German Society of Neurosurgery, as Board Member of the German Society of Neurosurgery and of the German Spine Society, as Education Officer Europe of AOSpine, as Secretary of the German Academy of Neurosurgery and as a member of the Education Committees of the German Spine Society and the Spine Society of Europe. Dr. Thomé has been a member of the Board the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies for several years, served as Chair of the Training Committee and currently holds the position of the Scientific Liaison Chair.
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