Makoto Nakamura

Chair of Neurosurgery

• Anatomical studies on minimally invasive neurosurgical approaches for the treatment of skull base meningiomas
• Anatomical studies on endoscopically assisted approaches to the skull base
• Minimally invasive navigated neurosurgical approaches of the posterior fossa
• Intraoperative fluorescence-assisted procedures for tumour visualisation and tissue imaging
• Virtual reality and mixed reality-based procedures to optimise neurosurgical operation planning
• Visual evoked potentials in intraoperative monitoring and visual field changes in perichiasmatic processes: Influence on outcome
• Sensory evoked potentials as markers of oxygen metabolism in subarachnoid haemorrhage
• Quantitative pupillomotor function and intracranial pressure in intracranial space-occupying processes: Correlation of dynamics
• Troponin as a marker of the clinical state in subarachnoid haemorrhage
• Sonography of congestive papilla and optic nerve blood flow: correlation with the course of intracranial pressure
• Additive treatment of aphasia with transcranial magnetic stimulation
• Application of deep learning algorithms in neurosurgery
• EMG sensor-based ergonomic analyses for neurosurgical patients

Dr Zafer Cinibulak
Senior Consultant, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

Prof. Dr Cleopatra Charalampaki
Senior Consultant, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

PD Dr Faycal El-Majdoub
Comm. Head of the Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery Section, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

Dr Mihai Manu
Senior Physician, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

Dr Paiman Shalchian-Tehran
Specialist, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

Priv.-Doz. Dr Samer Zawy Alsofy
Senior Consultant, Clinic for Neurosurgery, St. Barbara-Klinik Hamm GmbH

Prof. Dr med. habil. Dr rer. medic. Dipl.-Biochem. Ralf Stroop, M.Sc.

PD Dr Habib Bendella
Senior physician, Clinic for Spinal Surgery, GFO Clinics Bergisch Gladbach

Prof. Dr Oliver Müller
Chief Physician, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Dortmund Hospital

• Skull base surgery
• Endoscopic neurosurgery
• Neurooncology
• Vascular neurosurgery
• Spinal Surgery
• Neurotraumatology

Date of birth: 31 March 1972
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Nationality: German
 

School education
09.1978 - 09.1982
Primary school, Frankfurt a. M.

10.1982 - 06.1991
Schillergymnasium, Frankfurt a. M.

12.06.1991
Higher education entrance qualification with advanced courses in mathematics and physics

04.1978 - 04.1990
International Japanese Primary School, Middle School and High School in Frankfurt a. M.
 

Studies
10.1991 - 05.1998
Studied human medicine at
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt a. M.
Harvard Medical School
University College London
University of Oxford Medical School
Final grade in medical examinations "very good" (1.33)

Clinical clerkships
02.1995 - 03.1995
Orthopaedics - Keio University Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

02.1996 - 03.1996
Internal Medicine - Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA

03.1996 - 04.1996
Neurology -Beth Israel Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA

07.1996 - 08.1997
Neurosurgery - University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
 

Appointments
10.1998
Internship at the Neurosurgery Clinic, Hannover Nordstadt Clinic
(Prof. Dr med. h. c. mult. M. Samii)

01.04.2000
Full licence to practice medicine

04.2000
Assistant doctor at the Neurosurgery Clinic, Hanover Nordstadt Clinic
(Prof. Dr med. h. c. mult. M. Samii)

02.2003
Continued work as an assistant doctor in the Neurosurgery Clinic, Hanover Nordstadt Clinic (Prof. Dr med. habil. M. R. Gaab

29.11.2004
Specialist in neurosurgery

04.2005
Senior consultant in the Neurosurgery Clinic, Hanover Nordstadt Hospital

1.1.2006
Senior consultant at the Neurosurgery Clinic, Hannover Medical University
(Prof. Dr med. J. K. Krauss)

4.2006 - 6.2016
Speaker of the interdisciplinary CNS tumour board at Hannover Medical School

11.2008 - 6.2016
Deputy Director and Senior Consultant at the
Neurosurgical Clinic, Hannover Medical School
(Prof. Dr med. J. K. Krauss)

11.2008 - 6.2016
Contract lecturer and representative for continuing professional development at the
Neurosurgical Clinic, Hannover Medical School

01.07.2016 - Today
Chief Physician of the Neurosurgery Clinic, Cologne Merheim Medical Centre,
Merheim, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH

09.2016 - today
Chair of Neurosurgery, Witten/Herdecke University

• Clinical track "Neurosurgery and ENT"
• Clinical track "Cranial Neurosurgery"
• Clinical track "Spinal Surgery"
• POL courses
• "Diagnostic methods" course
• Practical year in neurosurgery with teaching seminars

• Surgery for brain tumours
• Treatment of spinal disorders
• Back pain, neck pain
• Herniated discs
• Operations for vascular diseases of the brain
• Traumatic brain injury
• Computer-assisted operations on the brain
• Brain haemorrhages
• AI applications in neurosurgery

• German Society for Neurosurgery
• Society for Skull Base Surgery
• German Spine Society
• EUROSPINE
• Japan Neurosurgical Society
• German University Association

12.1993 - 05.1998
Scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation

07.09.2000
Doctoral Prize of the Medical Faculty, Department of Medicine, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

12.2007
Scholarship of the Foundation for Neurosurgical Research

5.2011
Poster Prize, 62nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery