Thomas Mindermann, in full Thomas Friedrich Gerhard Mindermann, is a German-born Swiss neurosurgeon and researcher. He practices neurosurgery at Klinik Im Park and Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland.
Background
Thomas Mindermann was born on March 10, 1955 in Schopfheim, West-Germany and arrived in Switzerland in 1975 where he studied medicine at the University of Basel. He graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Basel in 1983 and earned a medical doctorate (Dr. med.) from the University of Basel in 1984. In 1995, he was board certified as a neurosurgeon in Switzerland. In 1999 he earned a habilitation (Privatdozent) in neurosurgery from he University of Basel. Mindermann was appointed a Senior Pituitary Research Fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 1992 until 1993. He is a grantee of M. & W. Lichtenstein-Stiftung, University of Basel, Switzerland; Ciba-Geigy-Jubiläumsstiftung, Basel, Switzerland; Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland; Wissenschaftlicher Fonds Kantonsspital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland. Mindermann practices neurosurgery in Zurich, Switzerland. He is on the editorial boards of international neurosurgical journals, he is a referee for several scientific journals, he supervises medical doctorate students and residents, he publishes research, and he is on the board of medical directors of Klinik Im Park, Hirslanden, Zurich since 2001.
Career
Residencies in geriatrics & rehab., general surgery, neurology, and intensive care from 1984-1990, resident in neurosurgery University Hospitals, Basel, 1990—1992, 1994, attending in neurosurgery, 1995—1999. Senior pituitary research fellow University California, San Francisco, 1992-1993. Board certified neurosurgeon, Switzerland, 1995. Privatdozent associate professor University Basel, Switzerland, since 1999.
Director Gamma Knife Center, Zurich, Switzerland, 2000-2009. Member of the board of medical directors Klinik im Park, Zurich, Switzerland, since 2001. Member of the board medical advisors Wegweiser - Swiss Patient Organization for Pituitary Diseases, since 2001. Member board directors, member board medical advisors Swiss Parkinson Society, 2001—2004.
Member of the editorial boards of Acta Neurochirurgica (The European Journal of Neurosurgery) since 2013 and of Surgical Neurology International since 2014
Membership
Member Swiss Neurosurg. Society (board educational committee 2002-2003, secretary and treasurer 2003-2005, board member research price committee - formerly Synthes Price 2006-2015, president commission on radiosurgery 2004-2014), Swiss Medical Association, Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS), American Association Neurological Surgeons (AANS), Pituitary Society (US), American Society Sterotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, European Society Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Leksell Gamma Knife Society, International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS), Cyberknife Society, The Royal Society of Medicine (UK).