Prof. Dr. Med. Jurgen Kiwit (Neurosurgeon)

Since 2023:

🔹Self-employed neurosurgeon and pain therapist at City-Praxen Berlin

🔹Specialties: Comprehensive spinal therapy, skull base tumor surgery, glioma therapy

Since 2022:

🔹Research associate at the Neurosurgery Clinic of WFK Eberswalde, Chief Physician Dr. med. Stefan Schreiber

2019 – 2021:

🔹Consultant neurosurgeon at HELIOS Klinikum Berlin Buch

2015 – 2017:

🔹Member of the Board of Appeals of the Berlin Medical Association

2015:

🔹Authorization to provide further training in Special Pain Therapy by the Berlin Medical Association (6 months)

2012 – 2015:

🔹Secretary of the MAYO Alumni German Speaking Chapter

2011:

🔹Recognition of the additional qualification "Special Pain Therapy" by the Berlin Medical Association

2009:

🔹Recognition of the additional qualification "Specialized Radiological Diagnostics" by the Berlin Medical Association

2007 – 2019:

🔹Deputy Medical Director of HELIOS Privatkliniken GmbH Berlin Buch

2006 – 2008:

🔹Re-elected as Chairman of the MAYO Alumni German Speaking Chapter for the term 2006 to 2008, organizing European congresses for the scientific association

2005 – 2017:

🔹Head of the Spine Department at HELIOS Kliniken Group (Neurosurgeons, Orthopedists, Trauma Surgeons)

2004 – 2006:

🔹Chairman of the MAYO Alumni German Speaking Chapter (Scientific Association of German, Austrian, and Swiss MAYO Alumni) for the term 

2003 – 2018:

🔹Delegate (Second Delegate) of the DGNC in the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

2002:

🔹Membership in the Cerebrovascular Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

2000 – 2023:

🔹Consultant physician at MEOCLINIC International Private Clinic, Friedrichstrasse 71 (Quartier 206), specializing in minimally invasive spine surgery

1999:

🔹Authorization for unlimited further training in the field of neurosurgery by the Berlin Medical Association (72 months)

1998:

🔹Appointment as lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin

1998 – 2019:

🔹Chief Physician of the Neurosurgery Clinic Berlin Buch

1998:

🔹Re-elected as Permanent Member of the Faculty Council of the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

1997:

🔹Appointment as an associate professor by the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University

1997:

🔹Recognition of the optional qualification "Special Neurosurgical Intensive Care Medicine" by the North Rhine Medical Association

1996 – 1998:

🔹Deputy Principal Investigator of the clinical trial GTI-0115: Retroviral gene transfer with the G1Tk1SvNa7 vector in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastomas

🔹Permanent elected member of the Faculty Council of the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

1995 – 1996:

🔹Subproject A 12 in the SFB 194 of the DFG "Structural Changes and Dysfunction in the Nervous System" with the topic: "Structural-Functional Changes of Cortical Lesions by Interstitial Laser Irradiation"

🔹Deputy Principal Investigator of the clinical trial GTI-0103: Retroviral gene transfer with the G1Tk1SvNa7 vector in patients with recurrent glioblastoma

1994 – 1998:

🔹Senior consultant at the Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and Deputy Director of the Department

1992 – 1993:

🔹2nd Senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

1992:

🔹Membership in the American Association of Neurological Surgeons

1992:

🔹Habilitation at the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with the topic: "Experimental Studies on the Therapy of Malignant Gliomas"

1991:

🔹Recognition as a specialist in neurosurgery

1990 – 1991:

🔹Fellowship granted by the Mayo Foundation for further training as a Fellow in Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, Director Thoralf M. Sundt, MD

1987:

🔹Research funding from the Minister for Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia, IV B 5 – 500 018 87, "Immunobiology of Brain Tumors," establishment of the neuro-oncological laboratory of the clinic

1986 – 1990:

🔹Training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Director Prof. Dr. med. W.J. Bock

1985:

🔹FLEX Examination, State of New York, U.S.A.

1984 – 1985:

🔹Training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the Neuropathological Institute of the University of Düsseldorf, Director Prof. Dr. med. W. Wechsler

1983:

🔹Doctorate (Dr. med.) at the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf with the topic: "Critical Analysis of Fetal Risk Detection through Serum Estriol Determination"

1983:

🔹VQE Examination

1982:

🔹ECFMG Examination

1982 – 1983:

🔹Training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz, Head Fleet Medical Officer Dr. med. J. Mletzko

1981:

🔹Medical Examination III

1980 – 1981:

🔹Practical year at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and Middlesex Hospital, London

1980:

🔹Three-month research trip to Kenya, ethnomedical field study "Trepanation in East Africa," supervised by Prof. Dr. med. Hans Schadewaldt, Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine

1975 – 1980:

🔹Studies in Human Medicine at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf