Günther Feigl

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Günther C. Feigl (born 1968, Graz) is an Austrian neurosurgeon. Feigl is an internationally renowned expert in minimally invasive neurosurgery. His main areas of expertise are skull base surgery and neurooncology. He specializes in the surgery of gliomas, minimally invasive endoscopy-assisted microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain) and facial hemispasm (involuntary facial twitching) as well as the surgery of acoustic neuromas (tumors of the vestibular nerves), tumors of the pineal gland and meningiomas of the skull base. Furthermore, his specialties comprise treatment of pituitary adenomas, spinal cord tumours and metastases as well as the area of pediatric neurosurgery.[1]

Education[edit]

Feigl began his medical education in the USA. After studying in Dallas, Houston and Graz and several years of brain tumor research at the Neuroscience Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical center in the world, he was working on his thesis on radiosurgery in the treatment of pituitary tumors using the gamma-knife method. He did his neurosurgical training in Germany, where he trained at INI (International Neuroscience Institute) in Hannover with the worldwide renowned neurosurgeon and pioneer in the field of neurosurgery Madjid Samii.[2] In Tübingen, he trained with Marcos Tatagiba[3][4] where he completed his residency in neurosurgery. Feigl got a Ph.D. from the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.[5]

Career[edit]

Feigl studied at the Eberhard Karl University in Tübingen and has equally acquired an associate professorship for neurosurgery.[6][7][8] As Head of Skull Base Surgery at Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart, he specialized in minimally invasive neurosurgery and neuroendoscopy.[citation needed]

He became chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Klinikum Bamberg. Aside from his position as chairman, Feigl is the Director of the Brain Tumor Center Bamberg[9] as well as the Director of the Skull Base Center Bamberg, which he both founded. He is medical director of Neuronetz Bamberg practice center.[10]

Due to his internationally recognized expertise in minimally invasive skull base surgery and neurooncology, Günther C. Feigl became an affiliate faculty member at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI) Neurosciences Research Program in March 2018[11] and Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Hospital (IAM) in December 2019.

Feigl is a member of the medical advisory board of the Acoustic Schwannoma Patient Support Group,[12] the German Skull Base Society[13] and the German Neurological Society.[14] He is a founding member of the European Low Grad Glioma Network (ELGGN).[15]

Publications[edit]

His most-cited peer reviewed publications are:[16]

  • Szelényi, Andrea; Bello, Lorenzo; Duffau, Hugues; Fava, Enrica; Feigl, Guenther C.; Galanda, Miroslav; Neuloh, Georg; Signorelli, Francesco; Sala, Francesco; Workgroup for Intraoperative Management in Low-Grade Glioma Surgery within the European Low-Grade Glioma, Network. (February 2010). "Intraoperative electrical stimulation in awake craniotomy: methodological aspects of current practice". Neurosurgical Focus. 28 (2): E7. doi:10.3171/2009.12.FOCUS09237. PMID 20121442.
  • Feigl, Günther Christian; Bonelli, Christine Maria; Berghold, Andrea; Mokry, Michael (1 December 2002). "Effects of gamma knife radiosurgery of pituitary adenomas on pituitary function". Journal of Neurosurgery. 97 (Supplement 5): 415–421. doi:10.3171/jns.2002.97.supplement_5.0415. PMID 12507067.
  • Feigl, Guenther C.; Ritz, Rainer; Moraes, Mario; Klein, Jan; Ramina, Kristofer; Gharabaghi, Alireza; Krischek, Boris; Danz, Soeren; Bornemann, Antje; Liebsch, Marina; Tatagiba, Marcos S. (August 2010). "Resection of malignant brain tumors in eloquent cortical areas: a new multimodal approach combining 5-aminolevulinic acid and intraoperative monitoring: Clinical article". Journal of Neurosurgery. 113 (2): 352–357. doi:10.3171/2009.10.JNS09447. PMID 19911888.

Most recent publications:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Profile". hirntumor-zentrum.de. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  2. ^ "Medizinische Hochschule Hannover : Startseite" (PDF).
  3. ^ "Mehr Sicherheit fürs Hirn - Kreis Tübingen - Reutlinger General-Anzeiger".
  4. ^ Feigl, Günther; Tatagiba, Marcos (2011). "Navigation in der Neurochirurgie". Op-Journal. 27 (2): 118–122. doi:10.1055/s-0031-1280184.
  5. ^ Resection of Malignant Brain Tumors in Eloquent Cortical Areas: A New Multimodal Approach Combining 5-ALA and Intraoperative Monitoring (Dissertation). Universität Tübingen. 2010.
  6. ^ "Professur für Feigl". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  7. ^ "Verleihung von Titeln (Tübingen University)". March 2015.
  8. ^ "Habilitation / Uniklinik Tübingen Neurochirurgie". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  9. ^ "Hirntumor-Zentrum: MRT, CT, Krebs, Gehirn, Chemotherapie | Sozialstiftung Bamberg". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  10. ^ "Praxis für Neurologie, Neurochirurgie, Psychiatrie, Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie- und Psychotherapi | Sozialstiftung Bamberg". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  11. ^ "Houston Methodist". houstonmethodist.org. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  12. ^ "Medizinischer Beirat". akustikus.de. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  13. ^ "Gesellschaft für Schädelbasischirurgie e.V". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  14. ^ "Gesellschaft". Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  15. ^ "ELGGN". elggn2019.com. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  16. ^ Profile, scholar.google.com. Accessed September 25, 2019.
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