Head of Department
MedUniWien, Austria
PERSONAL DATA
Date, Place of Birth 01/17/1964, Vienna, Austria
Private Address Staudgasse 13/25, 1180 Vienna, Austria
Office Address Clinic for Neurosurgery, Medical University Vienna
Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna
Contact karl.roessler@meduniwien.ac.at, mobile: +43 676 590 6 530
Orcid-ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9249-8082
Citizenship Austrian
EDUCATION
12/12/1988 Promotion- Dr. med. univ., University Vienna (Medical studies 1982-1988), Austria
18/11/2010 Promotion- Dr.med., Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
ACADEMIC ACHIEVMENTS
10/29/1998 Venia Legendi for Neurosurgery, University Vienna
Habilitation dissertation: “Development of Neuronavigation in Neurosurgery”
7/20/2010 University Professor, Ministry of Science and Research, University of Vienna
1/7/2019 Full Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical University Vienna, Austria
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
9/2006 – 6/2011 Director, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Academic Teaching Hospital Feldkirch, Austria
7/2011 – 2/2014 Leading Managing Physician
Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
2/2014 – 6/2019 Vice-Director, Clinic for Neurosurgery, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
7/2019- present Director, Clinic for Neurosurgical, Medical University Vienna
SPECIALIZED MEDICAL LISCENCES
4/1/1997 Physician specialized in Neurosurgery, Austrian Medical Chamber
13/11/1999 Leadership medical management (Hospital management), Vienna University
08/06/2004 Registration as Medical Practitioner and Neurosurgeon, GMC, Great Britain
10/1/2009 Physician Neurosurgical Intensive Care, Austrian Medical Chamber
21/11/2009 Principle Investigator License for Clinical Studies, Medical University Graz, Austria
25/3/2014 Certificate Vascular Neurosurgery, German Association for Neurosurgery (DGNC)
23/5/2017 Certificate Epilepsy Surgery, Committee Epilepsy surgery (Austria, Germany, Swiss)
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
>226 Peer reviewed, Impact factor >857, H-Index 46 (2022)
HEALTH POLITICAL ACITIVITIES
Chair of the Committee for Neurosurgical Oncology
Austria (ANCO) of the ÖGNC, 2007- 2010
President of the Association of Physicians
Vorarlberg, Austria 2008-2010
Delegate International League against Epilepsy (ILAE), Commissions: Surgical Therapies, Epilepsy Surgery Education und Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery, 2016-2021
Board Member, Functional Section, European Association of Neurosurgical societies (EANS), 2021- present
Vice-President, International Epilepsy Surgery Society (IESS), 2021- present
15/1/2023