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Speakers‘ BioCategorial appearance order as per programmeThe Representatives of DAAD PartnersProf. Dr Henry W. S. SchroederUniversity Medicine GreifswaldProf. Dr Henry W. S. Schroeder, M. D., Ph.D. is professor and chairmanat the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Medicine inGreifswald, Germany. He obtained his MD at the University inGreifswald in 1989. In 1996 he received the Board Certification asNeurosurgeon. Since 2004 he is Professor of Neurosurgery andChairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the UniversityMedicine in Greifswald. Dr Schroeder is Member of the German Societyof Neurosurgery and of the German Academy of Neurosurgery,International Member of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons,International Fellow of the American Association of NeurologicalSurgeons, Treasurer of the German Society of Skullbase Surgery,President of the International Federation of Neuroendoscopy, and wasthe Chairman of the Neuroendoscopy committee of the WFNS from2014 -2017.niversityAS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 1 of 6
Prof. Dr Ahmed ZohdiCairo UniversityProf. Dr Ahmed Zohdi – Professor of Neurosurgery September 1996 tillJuly 2014, Professor Emeritus since August 2014 Cairo University. ViceDean for Postgraduate Studies and Research Faculty of Medicine,CAIRO UNIVERSITY from 28.02.2011 till 14.09.2011 . Replacing ViceDean for Education and Students Affair & Community Service andEnvironment Faculty of Medicine, CAIRO UNIVERSITY from 09.03.2011and 08.08.2011 respectively till 14.09.2011. Executive Editor from May2009 till September 2012 , then Chief Editor starting September 2012for the Egyptian Journal of Neurosurgery (EJNS The Official Journal ofthe Egyptian Society of Neurological Surgeons) Springer Open(Publishing House) since April 2017 till December 2020. Honorary ChiefEditor since March 2021. Honorary President of the Egyptian Society ofNeurological Surgeons (ESNS), 30.05.2014 . Head of the NeurosurgicalPermanent Scientific Committee for promotion of both associateprofessors and professors since September 2016. Main Egyptiansupervisor of the "Cairo-Greifswald Cooperation Project" (DAAD fund)and "Fellowship in Neuroendoscopy”.Prof. Dr Slim AbdennadherGerman International UniversityProf. Dr Slim Abdennadher is a full professor and the president of theGerman International Univeristy in Egypt. He was appointed inSeptember 2021 and before that he has been undertaking thepresidency duties for a year. For the period 2003-2021, he was the vicepresident for academic and research affairs at the GUC (GermanUniversity in Cairo) and the acting dean for the faculty of MediaEngineering and Technology (MET). Slim earned his doctoral degree in1998 and the habilitation followed in 2001. Both were granted from theUniversity of Munich. He (co-)authored more than 120 peer-reviewedpublications in areas of serious games, affective computing andconstraint programming.AS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 2 of 6
Prof. Dr Ehab El RefaeeCairo UniversityProf. Dr med El Refaee is a German board-certified neurosurgeonworking as a consultant neurosurgeon at Cairo University. During hisstudies in Neuroendoscopy in Germany, he completed his doctoratedegree on the topic of hemifacial spasm. After his return to Egypt, hestarted working as an academic and clinical coordinator for the CairoGreifswald-Fellowship a cooperative project between the Faculty ofMedicine of the Cairo University and the University MedicineGreifswald. With the support of his team, he developed the“Neuroendoscopy Fellowship” which offers a blended learning tool foryoung neurosurgeons. This team has published several internationalstudies and is still working on other topics in several research lines.Prof. Dr El Refaee is investing his time to keep the connection betweenthe two cities and working on numerous research and surgical trainingtasks. He is aiming to create an active, continuous bridge of knowledgetransfer within the field of medical education, which would improvethe quality of the health service provided.Dr Ahmad AbdelrahmanCairo UniversityDr Ahmed Abdelrahman is a lecturer of neurosurgery atCairo University, and has been involved in the organization of theNeuroendoscopy Fellowship held as part of the cooperation betweenCairo University and Universität Medizin in Greifswalds, which isconsidered the first of its kind and the only one that involved hands incourse at the time of Coronavirus pandemic.Marc MatthesUniversity of GreifswaldM.Sc., Marc Matthes has a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineeringand a master’s degree in Medical Informatics, and has been working atthe Dept. of Neurosurgery in Greifswald since 2009. He is part of theadministrative staff for the DAAD funded “Fellowships inNeuroendoscopy”.AS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 3 of 6
Dr Michael SchwerterBrainLabDr Michael Schwerter received his PhD in physics from RWTH AachenUniversity and worked as a researcher on soft- and hardwaredevelopment for biomedical imaging applications. He joined Brainlabin 2021 for a clinical research project in Düsseldorf, where he iscurrently working on Mixed Reality and 5G technologyDr Heba AzouzCairo UniversityDr Heba Azouz, is the first female neurosurgery to get her masterdegree from Ain-shams university. Currently working in achieving herMD degree in Cairo university, working in 57357 children cancerhospital. Additionally, she is a surgical illustrator.Dr Mohamed SolimanCairo UniversityDr Mohamed Amin Soliman is a Lecturer in the Department ofNeurosurgery at Cairo University. He earned his master's degree inNeurosurgery in 2015 and a Neurosurgery Medical Doctorate degree in2018. During his Neurosurgery post-graduate training at CairoUniversity, he did electives in Dalhousie and Western University inCanada with an excellent evaluation followed by 3 years fellowship inWestern University. He has a particular interest in spinal surgery,endovascular neurosurgery, and hydrocephalus. He has lecturednationally and internationally in different well-recognizedconferences. He has been listed as a top teaching resident at CairoUniversity in 2014. Furthermore, in 2020 he was awarded by WesternUniversity the Angelika F. Hahn Award for excellence in clinicalteaching and by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) theJournal of Neuro-oncology best abstract award. He has been practicingneurosurgery since 2012.AS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 4 of 6
Dr Sascha MarxUniversity of GreifswaldDr Sascha Marx, born in Mühlhausen/ Germany. Medical School in Jena(GER). Neurosurgical Residency in Greifswald (GER) under Prof. HenrySchroeder. Currently as DFG-fellow in DFCI/ Harvard Medical School inBoston, MA under Prof. Kai Wucherpfennig.Reem ElwyCairo UniversityDr Reem Elwy graduated from Kasr Al Ainy School of Medicine, CairoUniversity with second highest honors. She joined the Neurosurgeryresidency training program at El Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital in2016 and then joined the departments of Neurosurgery at theUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences/Arkansas Children’sHospital, and University of Iowa as a research fellow in 2017. She wasadmitted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in2018. She has a strong interest in academic Neurosurgery and haspublished a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals. Dr Elwy hasbeen an active member of the hydrocephalus research team at CairoUniversity since 2016.AS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 5 of 6
Prof. Dr med. Sandro KriegTechnische Universität München (TUM)Prof. Dr Sandro Krieg currently serves as Managing Senior Consultantat Klinikum rechts der Isar and is Professor of Neurosurgery at TUMunich. After studies in Munich, Boston, London and San Diego, hefinished his residency in Munich. During residency, he also acquired anMBA at HNU and UCLA School of Public Health and had a research leaveat UCSF to deepen his focus on research on eloquent brainlesion.Clinically, his subspecialties are surgical neurooncology,vascular neurosurgery and complex spine. His current scientific focusis on brain mapping, awake surgery and neurophysiologicaltechnologies. He serves as associate Editor of Frontiers in Oncology(Neuro-Oncology and Neurosurgical Oncology) and is member of theeditorial board of Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. Within theEANS he serves as Member of the EANS Young NeurosurgeonsCommittee, was an IM delegate from 2016-2020 and is currentlyheading the Academy Task Force putting up the new EANS teachingportal.Dr Roxanne LofrediCharité – University Clinic BerlinDr med. Roxanne Lofredi, is a senior PostDoc under supervision of Prof.Andrea A. Kühn and neurology resident at Charité –Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Previously, she worked with Prof.Desdemona Fricker at the Brain and Spine Institute in Paris and Prof.Peter Brown at the University Oxford. Her research focuses onintracerebral recordings of movement disorders patients undergoingDeep Brain Stimulation, to identify pathophysiological patterns inoscillatory activity during movement.AS11 – Expert Session “Current Trends in Neurosurgery: InnovativeApproaches and the Role of Artificial Intelligence”Page 6 of 6
Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research Faculty of Medicine, CAIRO UNIVERSITY from 28.02.2011 till 14.09.2011 . Replacing Vice-Dean for Education and Students Affair & Community Service and Environment Faculty of Medicine, CAIRO UNIVERSITY from 09.03.2011 and 08.08.2011 respectively till 14.09.2011.
