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Michael Buchfelder

Michael Buchfelder MD, PhD

Neurosurgery
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany

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Professor Dr Michael Buchfelder is the current professor and chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Following medical studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, he received his neurosurgical training with Professor Rudolf Fahlbusch, with whom he shared a very close long-term cooperation.

Previously (2002-2005), he was a professor of neurosurgery at the University of Gottingen. He enjoys membership in several scientific organizations, such as the German Societies of Endocrinology and Neurosurgery, the US Endocrine Society, as well as the American Association and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journals Central European Neurosurgery and Neurosurgical Reviews.

He enjoys honorary membership in several national and international scientific organizations and societies. His areas of research include the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of pituitary and hypothalamic tumors and hormonal disturbances associated with cerebral lesions.

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