Director and Chair
Department of Neurosurgery, University of Münster
Muenster, Germany
Walter Stummer trained with Hans-Jürgen Reulen and Jörg Tonn at the Ludwig-Maximilian’s-University in Munich. He is presently the Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Münster and Director of the University of Münster Brain Tumor Center. He served 2 terms as Speaker of the Section Neurooncology of the German Society of Neurosurgery, two terms as
Speaker of the Neuro-Oncological Working Group (NOA) of the German Cancer Society, and is Past-President of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) . He was implemental in organizing structured neuro-oncological care in Germany in a commission appointed by the German Cancer Society. He founded the Brain Tumor Center Münster, the first to be certified by the German Cancer Society.
His main scientific interests are in the field of neuro-oncology and he is pioneer of fluorescence-guided resections with 5-ALA. His first publication of this method in clinical practice was in 1998 and he was PI on a randomized study for EMA and recently, FDA approval of this method. He has received a number of prizes for this work, for instance the AANS/CNS Young Investigators Award, the AANS/CNS Joint Tumor Section's Young Clinical Investigators Award and the WFNS-Award. Other scientific interests are in vascular and skull base surgery.
Walter Stummer is serving on the editorial boards of several neurosurgical and neuro-oncological journals.
(PC2203) Practical Clinic: Technological Adjuncts for Malignant Brain Tumor Surgery
Friday, April 21, 2023
8:00am – 11:30am PST
Disclosure(s): Alpheus Medical: Advisor (Ongoing); Photonamic: Research Grant (Ongoing); SBI ALA Pharma: Advisor (Ongoing); Zeiss Meditec: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)