citizenship

german

address

Department of Neurosurgery

Schwarzwald Baar Klinikum

Klinikstr. 11

78052 Villingen-Schwenningen

phone

++49-7721-932101

e-mail

rainer.ritz@sbk-vs.de

personal profile/summary

position

Professor & chairman of the Dept. of Neurosurgery Schwarzwald Baar Klinikum, Villingen-Schwenningen

Teaching hospital of University Freiburg/Breisgau

clinical focus

neurooncology, glioma surgery, skull base surgery,

vascular surgery

research focus

fluorescence guided neurosurgery photodynamic therapy

intraoperative multimodal imaging and navigation

molecular biology in neuro-oncology

education

2009

Ph.D. thesis (Habilitation), ‘ Visualisation and photodynamic therapy in malignant glioma. Systematic in vitro investigations with 5-aminolevulinic acid induced protoporphyrin IX and hypericin’, (Prof. Dr. M. Tatagiba,

Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen)

2002

Board certification for neurosurgery

2001

doctorate thesis ‚Prognostic value of somatosensoric evoked potentials in poor-grade aneurysm surgery after subarachnoic hemorrhage’, University of Saarland, Germany (chairman: Prof. Dr. med. W.-I. Steudel) (doctor’s degree University of Saarland, Dr. med.)

1987-1994

medical school, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar, Germany

1985

graduation (Abitur) from the Rechberg Gymnasium, Donzdorf, Germany

employment and positions

2015 – present

chairman of the Dept. of Neurosurgery, Schwarzwald Baar Klinikum, Villingen Schwenningen and Professor of Neurosurgery, Eberhard-Karls University

Tübingen

2012 – 2015

vice chairman, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University

Marburg (chairman: Prof. Dr. Ch. Nimsky)

2000 – 2012

resident, staff member, senior staff member and associate Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Eberhard- Karls University, Tübingen (chairman: Prof. Dr. M.

Tatagiba)

1994 – 2000

resident / staff member, Dept. of Neurosurgery, University of Saarland, Homburg/Saar (chairman: Prof.

Dr. W.-I. Steudel)