Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery Hands-on Courses

Roman Bošnjak

Roman Bošnjak

Prof. Dr. med. Roman Bošnjak, dr. med.

Employment:

 Head. Dept. of Neurosurgery, Divison of Surgery, University Medical Centre, Zaloška 7, 1000 Ljubljana 2014 –

Professor of neurosurgery at Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2011-

 

Positions:

  • President of Slovenian Neurosurgical Society
  • President of Neuroendoscopy Committee at South-East European Association of Neurosurgeons (SeENS).
  • UEMS national representative since 11/2017
  • National coordinator for neurosurgical residency program
  • Member of WFNS Neuroendoscopy & Neuroendocrine Committee 2020-21, 2022-23 Member of EANS Training Committee
  • Member of IFNE International Society for Neuroendoscopy Honorary
  • Member of Serbian Neurosurgical Society
  • Honorary Member of Croatian Neurosurgical Society

Email: roman.bosnjak@gmail.com

 

Personal Details:

Year of Birth: 1962 Nationality: Slovene

Gender: male

Native language: Slovenian Standard of English: fluent

Other languages spoken: German (B2), Serbian (fluent), Croatian (fluent)

 

Qualifications

Primary Qualification: Doctor of Medicine Specialist

Qualification: Specialist in Neurosurgery

  • Medical Registration number/License number in Slovenia: 6705/1447 Licence 1631-31/2021-488; 2.1.2020 – 1.1.2027
  • Approbation als Arzt, Regierung von Unterfranken, Würzburg den 21. Juni 2013
  • Annerkennung als Facharzt für Neurochirurgie, Bayerische Landesärztekammer, München, den 26. August, 2013
  • Arzt Numer 318466, Bayerische Landesärztekammer

 

 

Education:

Medical School: 1988

University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty, Slovenia

Residency: 1988-1996 (mentor acad. prof. dr. Vinko Dolenc)

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Specialist of Neurosurgery:  since 1996

 

Engagement:

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia 1988-

 

Position:

Senior neurosurgeon. Consultant. Head of department.

 

Academic Rank:

Professor of Neurosurgery (2011-), Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Visiting professor at Klinikum Bamberg, Germany (2014-).

 

Research

 Master's degree: 1992

Isometrical contraction force, fatigue and the cross-sectional area of wrist extensor muscles after radial nerve grafting (mentor Prof. Vinko V Dolenc, MD, PhD).

Doctor's degree: 1999

3D-motor response in the ankle to the direct electrical stimulation of spinal nerve roots L4, L5 and S1 (mentor Prof. Vinko V Dolenc, MD, PhD)

 

Visiting Professor

  1. Service de Neurochirurgie, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Hopital Erasme, Bruxelles, Belgium; chairman prof. Olivier De Witte, M.D., Ph.D. (15.nov. 2008 do 14.dec. 2008)

 

  1. Klinik fur Neurochirurgie, Universitatsklinikum Tubingen, Tubingen,Germany; chairman prof. Marcos Tatagiba, M.D., Ph.D. (10. jan. 2009 do 10. mar. 2009)

 

Clinical skills, techniques and experience

  • endoscopic endonasal pituitary surgery and of parasellar adenoma
  • endoscopic endonasal skull base surgery (extended approaches)
  • open skull base surgery (middle fossa approach, Kawase approach, Dolenc’s epidural approach to cavernous sinus and central base, petrosectomy – in coop with ENT, etc)
  • microsurgery of brain tumors
  • minimally invasive neurosurgery
  • cavernous sinus (endonasal, transcranial), orbit (lateral,
  • transconjunctival)
  • transcranial neuroendoscopy (intraventricular, endoport)
  • trigeminal neuralgia & MVD (also endoscopic)
  • acoustic neuroma incl. neuromonitoring (retrosigmoid;
  • translabyrinthine – in coop. with ENT)
  • vascular neurosurgery (aneurysms, AVM)
  • peripheral nerve and brachial plexus injuries and tumors
  • stereotaxy and neuronavigation (Stealth station Medtronic, Leksell’s frame)
  • pediatric tumor neurosurgerya dn neuroendoscopy
  • intraoperative neuromonitoring and mapping)
  • spine surgery
  • spinal cord microsurgery
  • herniated disc disease (also endoscopic interlaminar – EASYGO)
  • baclofen pump for spasticity
  • morphine intrathecal pump for chr. pain
  • neurotrauma

 

Internet publications – video (selection)