Kathleen Seidel

Kathleen Seidel, is board certified neurosurgeon, staff physician and associate professor of the Department of neurosurgery at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. Since 2008 at the Inselspital, she has established the unit of intraoperative neurophysiology. After a fellowship in ION with Vedran Deletis in New York, she is providing training to other professionals, hosting international observers and focusing on advance of ION modalities to improve patient safety in technical...See more

Kathleen Seidel, is board certified neurosurgeon, staff physician and associate professor of the Department of neurosurgery at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. Since 2008 at the Inselspital, she has established the unit of intraoperative neurophysiology. After a fellowship in ION with Vedran Deletis in New York, she is providing training to other professionals, hosting international observers and focusing on advance of ION modalities to improve patient safety in technical high-risk surgeries. Providing expertise in neurosurgery and intraoperative neurophysiology, she is a routinely invited speaker at international courses and congresses. She has published numerous ION papers and key papers concerning subcortical brain mapping and mapping of the spinal cord. Currently, she serves as the head of the scientific committee of the society of intraoperative neurophysiology (ISIN). Recently, she was awarded with the prestigious Theodor Kocher Prize of Bern University, which honors its best academics across its faculties for their exceptional and innovative scientific achievements. See less