Highly specialized fields like pediatric neurosurgery evolve in the hands of a small but international group of dedicated experts. As such, comprehensive training requires a large degree of mobility. Hannes Haberl, the editor of this book, looks back on 20 years of productive, sometimes surprising, but always profitable encounters with respected colleagues in order to review and extend his personal range of approaches and surgical techniques.
This book is the result of very personal communications between the editor and 25 of the most experienced pediatric neurosurgeons. Introducing their very personal attitudes and approaches, the authors offer also surgical tips, tricks and insights which have proven useful in daily surgical practice and education. Although or precisely because - not a conventional textbook, it is highly recommendable for neuro-surgeons, neurologists, pediatricians and interested members of related disciplines.
30 Authors will be interviewed.-Each interview contains.- a little hand
drawn sketch of a surgical trick, tip or technique, serving only as a
personal fingerprintof the author (page 1).- a photo of the author and a
selected important biographical event (page 2).- a detailed description of
the previously mentioned surgical technique (page 3-4).- a thorough
illustration (Page5-6).
Professor Haberl recently retired as Head of the Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University of Bonn. He founded and developed the largest independent pediatric neurosurgical service at the Charité, University of Berlin in 2005, followed by a division at the University of Ulm in 2015 and finally a division at the University of Bonn in 2016, where he was called on the first German Chair for Pediatric Neurosurgery. In 2018 he was decorated with the order of the Estonian Red Cross for 20 years of support of pediatric neurosurgery in Estonia. His surgical fields include microscopic reconstructive cranial surgery, microneurosurgery and endoscopic surgery. He has lectured at the Universities of Berlin, Ulm, Tartu and Bonn. He served as member of the Faculty of the European Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN) and host of the ESPNs annual course in Berlin. He is member of the advisory board of the ISPN library of the International Society of Pediatric Neurosurgery. Professor Haberl holds the patent for a surgical instrument and has published many articles in peer- reviewed journals, book chapters, and several popular science articles in well-known German newspapers.
Dedicated to education, Prof. Haberl currently trains young neruosurgeons at the Rothschild Foundation in Paris, at the University Hospital of Nice and at the Schön-Klinik Vogtareuth (Bavaria).
