Dr. Florian Roser

Florian Roser, MD

Institute Chair, Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute

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Surgeon
YEARS OF
EXPERIENCE
22

Achievements & Career Highlights

Conducted live surgery transmitted worldwide on a regular basis during instructional skull base and spine courses
Board Member, Educational Committee of the North American Skull Base Society
Associate Editor, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery (Elsevier)
Member, Executive Council on Accreditation & Education of the German Spine Society, 2012 to 2013
Congress President of the 4th International Meeting on Syringomyelia, Berlin, Germany, 2010
Founding Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the German Syringomyelia Support Group, since 2007
Stipendiate of the German Society of Neurosurgery, Berlin, Germany, 2007
Mayfield Clinical Science Award, American Association of Neurological Surgeons/Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, US, 2007
Himalaya Expedition Medical Escort, 2004
Borneo Expedition Medical Escort, 2002

Biography

Dr. Florian Roser, MD, is the Chair of Neurological Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He also serves as a Clinical Professor of Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, US.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Roser served as the Vice Chairman and Chief of Staff in the Department of Neurosurgery. He currently holds the position of Full Professor of Neurosurgery at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.

Dr. Roser is the Associate Editor of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery (Elsevier Journal) and serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for numerous prestigious neurosurgery journals, including Spine, Spinal Cord, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurological Science A and B and Journal of Neurosurgery. He has authored over 101 peer-reviewed articles and presented more than 140 lectures worldwide.

Furthermore, Dr. Roser has received several research grants from prestigious research institutions for basic molecular research on meningioma tissue, clinical research on diagnostics in Syringomyelia and technical innovations in surgical anatomy.

Dr. Roser is a graduate of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany and studied Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia, US, as well as in Johannesburg, South Africa. He completed his residency in the prestigious Department of Neurosurgery at Klinikum Hannover Nordstadt.

Dr. Roser resides in Abu Dhabi with his wife and two kids. He enjoys contemporary literature and various sports activities.

PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY

Medical School

1992

1992 - 1998

Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Doctor of Medicine (MD)

Fellowship

2008

2008 - 2008

National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

Fellow, Spine; Honorary Clinical Consultant
2005

2005 - 2006

Eberhard-Karls University Tüebingen, Tüebingen, Germany

Fellow, Skull Base; Assistant Professor

Residency

1999

1999 - 2004

Klinikum Hannover Nordstat, Hannover, Germany

Resident, Neurosurgery, Department of Neurosurgery

Work Experience

2008

2008 - 2014

Eberhard-Karls University Tüebingen, Tüebingen, Germany

Professor of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine; Vice-Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery; Head of Skull Base Center; Head of Spine and Spinal Cord Center

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