(spinal neurosurgery)

I am a US trained and Board-certified neurosurgeon, and I was most recently practicing in the Vaud region of western Switzerland. Originally from Ireland, I pursued my entire general surgical and neurosurgical training in the United States, where I spent 12 years in practice. I am an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and latterly Tufts University in Boston. I was an assistant professor of neurosurgery in the US before relocating to Switzerland in 2004. My area of expertise is in spinal surgery, specifically in minimally invasive, image-guided surgeries, and I am a US patent holder of a surgical robot. I also have a skull-base fellowship. I have been very active in academic circles as an international conference speaker, a former chair of the Spine Section of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) and have published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. I have been based professionally for the past 30 years successively in Ireland, Australia, the USA and Switzerland.