September 2017
Honorary membership
Prof. Dr. med. Joachim K. Krauss was awarded honorary membership of the Sociedad Española de Neurocirugía Funcional y Estereotáctica (SENFE) on 29 September 2017 at the society's annual meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
July 2017
Scholarship
Ms. Gökce Hatipoglu Majernik, Assistant Physician at the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, was awarded a scholarship from the German Society for Neuroscientific Assessment (DGNB) e.V. to participate in the advanced training curriculum "Neuroscientific Assessment". The scholarship is endowed with €870.
26.06.-29.06.2017
WSSFN Meeting
The "17th Quadrennial Meeting" of the "World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN)" took place in Berlin. With 974 participants from 62 countries, the congress was the most successful in the society's 55-year history.
The congress also marked the end of Prof. Dr. med. Joachim K. Krauss' term of office as President of the world society. A particular achievement of Prof. Krauss was the affiliation of six continental and regional societies under the umbrella of the World Society.
June 13, 2017
Prof. Krauss gives anniversary lecture at Patient University
To mark the 10th anniversary of the Patient University at Hannover Medical School, Prof. Joachim K. Krauss, Director of the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, together with Prof. Dr. Reinhold Dengler, Emeritus Clinic for Neurology, gave the lecture "Parkinson's and typical companions - diagnostics and therapy" for the anniversary series. After the lecture, the audience had the opportunity to deepen their knowledge at the learning wards. Further information on the event can be found via the link: www.patienten-universitaet.de
May 2017
68th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery
At the 68th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery in Magdeburg, the following prizes were awarded to employees of the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery on the subject of "interventional neuromodulation":
- Ms. Regina Rumpel received a lecture prize for the presentation "Neuronal firing activity and molecular findings in the basal ganglia after striatal transplantation of dopamine neurons in hemiparkinsonian rats". Further authors are M. Alam, A. Ratzka, J. K. Krauss, C. Grothe, K. Schwabe.
- Ms. Anne Beck was awarded the Young Investigator Prize for her work on "The Centromedian-Parafascicular Complex may signal behaviorally relevant events". Other authors are K. Schwabe, M. Abdallat, P. Sandmann, R. Dengler, J. K. Krauss.
The prizes were donated by Medtronic GmbH. Each prize is endowed with € 500.00.
Dr. Assel Saryyeva, Senior Physician at the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery was awarded the "Traugott-Riechert Prize" 2017 for her research project entitled: "Involvement of thalamic nuclei and regions of the basal ganglia in auditory perception and processing". The prize is endowed with €5,000 and was donated by Medtronic for research projects in functional neurosurgery.
May 2017
Establishment of a common guideline
After two years of work, the first joint guideline of the German Society of Neurology (DGN) and the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) on the diagnosis and treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus was finalized by a group of experts. Prof. Krauss, Director of the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery/ MHH, for the DGNC and Prof. Paulus, Director of the Clinical Department of Neurophysiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, for the DGN, were in charge. The guideline is linked.
April 28, 2017
Scholarship from the German Society for Neuroscientific Assessment (DGNB)
Dr. med. Irakli Müller and Mr. Michael Lalk, assistant physicians at the Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, were awarded a scholarship from the German Society for Neuroscientific Assessment (DGNB) e.V. to participate in the advanced training curriculum "Neuroscientific Assessment". The scholarship is endowed with €870 each.