Consultant Dr. med. univ. Raluca Reitmeir
Position and faculty
Consultant Spine Surgery
Specialty
Conservative focus
Infiltration of the lumbar spine
Interventional pain therapy using a neurostimulator
Surgical focus
Lumbar disc herniation / disc hernia lumbar spine
Narrowed lumbar nerve channel / spinal canal (stenosis)
Instability of the spinal column / arthrosis
Vertebral fracture in osteoporosis
Spinal cord tumor / cysts / tumors of the spinal cord sheaths
Languages
German
English
Italian
Romanian
Contact
Medical specialisation
Neurosurgery
Special Spinal Surgery
Certificates of proficiency
2022 - Interventional Pain Management (Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management, SSIPM)
2022 - Radiation Protection in Neurosurgery (Swiss Society for Neurosurgery, SGNC)
2021 - Spinal Surgery (Swiss Society for Neurosurgery, SGNC, and Swiss Orthopaedics, SO)
Curriculum
since 2022
Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
since 2018
Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2015–2018
Resident Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2011–2015
Resident, Universitätsklinik für Neurochirurgie, Inselspital Bern
(Prof. Dr. A. Raabe)
2010
Resident Surgery, Spital Limmattal
(Prof. O. Schöb / PD Dr. Zingg)
Education and training
2018
Specialist in Neurosurgery FMH
2013
Doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) with distinction "Summa cum laude"
"Promoting stroke recovery using delayed growth factor delivery: contribution of ipsilesional versus contralesional pyramidal tract plasticity", Faculty of Biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2009
Master in Medical Biology (M. Sc.) (excellent)
"The influence of cholesterol diet and Rosuvastatin on neurological recovery after stroke in mice", Faculty of Biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen
2009
Recognition of doctorate (Dr. med. univ.) by Federal Office of Public Health (MEBEKO)
2007
Medical doctorate at the Department of Neurosurgery (Dr. med. univ.) (excellent)
"Neuroprotection and Regeneration in Spinal Cord Injury: Studies on Wlds knock-out Rat", WKH Wien
2001–2007
Study of Medicine, Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna «Iuliu Hatieganu» Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Scientific activities
Scientific reviewer
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
Memberships
Swiss Society of Neurosurgery SGNCH
Swiss Medical Association FMH
Awards and honours
Honourable Mention Aesculap EANS Research Prize 2017
Scholarship Dr. Werner Jackstädt Foundation 2008–2010