PROF. DR. MED. NIKOLAI HOPF, MD (USMLE)

"I DON'T SHAVE HAIR... HEALTHY PATIENTS SHOULD ALSO LOOK HEALTHY SOON AFTER SURGERY! "

Since the 1990s, Professor Hopf has played a decisive role in the development of endoscope-assisted microsurgery and endoscopic skull-base surgery, and has acquired special expertise in the transcranial and transnasal endoscopic treatment of tumours of the central cranial base (sella region), the brain stem and spinal cord, and the pineal region. From 2005 to 2014, Professor Hopf held a teaching position at the Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz) and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

 

From 2009 to 2012, Professor Hopf was editor-in-chief of the international journal “Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery” and subsequently of its successor “Innovative Neurosurgery”. Among other things, he has published extensively on the endoscopic treatment of hydrocephalus and arachnoid cysts and on the minimally invasive treatment of complex cerebral vascular diseases such as multiple brain aneurysms. His post-doctoral lecturing qualification paper discussed the migratory activity of brain tumour cells. Professor Hopf’s scientific interest continues to focus on neuro-oncology and the development of new minimally invasive surgical techniques and instruments.

Since the 1990s, Professor Hopf has played a decisive role in the development of endoscope-assisted microsurgery and endoscopic skull-base surgery, and has acquired special expertise in the transcranial and transnasal endoscopic treatment of tumours of the central cranial base (sella region), the brain stem and spinal cord, and the pineal region. From 2005 to 2014, Professor Hopf held a teaching position at the Johannes Gutenberg University (Mainz) and at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1964
Born in 1964 in Würzburg, Germany.
1964
1983-1990
Medical Studies
Medical studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
1983-1990
1990-1996
Specialist education
Specialist training from Prof. Axel Perneczky in Mainz.
1990-1996
1993
Study mission
Residency with Dr. Kim Manwaring in Pediatric Neurosurgery at Phoenix Childrens Hospital and with Dr. Robert Spetzler for Neurovascular Diseases and Skull Base Surgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona/USA.
1993
1996-2003
Senior Physician
Senior Consultant and Deputy Director of the Neurosurgical University Hospital Mainz, 1999. Appointed Professor of Neurosurgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, 2000.
1996-2003
2003-2014
Medical Director
Successful post as medical director of the Neurosurgical Clinic at the Klinikum Stuttgart, one of the largest neurosurgical clinics in Germany.
2003-2014
2014
Founding of NeuroChirurgicum
Foundation of the "NeuroChirurgicum" centre in Stuttgart, with a focus on endoscopic and minimally invasive neurosurgery.
2014
2015
Foundation of ENDOMIN College
Founding of ENDOMIN College together with companion and friend Professor Robert Reisch.
2015
2020
Relocation
After six years of parallel work in two countries, all Professor Hopf's professional activities were transferred to Switzerland where he took up a leading position at the Centre for Neurosurgery at the Hirslanden Clinic in Zurich.
2020
2021
Cooperations
Close cooperation with the newly-founded Swiss Neuro Radiosurgery Center (SNRC) and the Swiss Neuro Radiology Institute (SNRI) in Zurich.
2021

Links

Endoscopic ventriculostomy

Endoscopic cyst fenestration

Endoscopic-assisted operation of skull-base epidermoid

Interview on Minimally invasive neurosurgery in "Lieder-Liebe-Leben"

Health seminar on the subject of "Living with cancer".