Consultant Neurosurgeon
Department of Neurosurgery, IM2S Monaco and CHIREC Delta hospital Brussels Belgium, Belgium
Patrick Fransen, MD, IFAANS, Consultant neurosurgeron, CHIREC Delta Hospital Brussels, Belgium and Institut Monégasque de Médecine et Chirurgie du Sport, Principality of Monaco
Dr Patrick Fransen grew up and studied in Brussels. After obtaining his medical degree and specialization in neurosurgery, he joined the Brussels Neurosurgical Center, a private practice group of neurosurgeons, where he was the head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Clinique du Parc Léopold, the Chairman of the Centre Neurochirurgical de Bruxelles between 2008 and 2017. He now shares his time between Brussels and Monaco where heleads the IM2S Spine Center since 2016
Dr Fransen has been active as a Board member for the Belgian Society for Neurosurgery, has founded the Belgian Neurosurgical Spine Society to better represent the neurosurgical approach of spinal surgery. He has been the President of the BNSS, and is also a Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and of the Société de Neurochirurgie de Langue Française. He has published over 40 papers in indexed journals, made numerous presentations and lectures in international meeting as well as surgeon’s trainings.
His spinal activities focus on cervical disc arthroplasty, cervical and thoraco-lumbar degenerative spine, surgery in the osteoporotic spine, minimal access surgery, scar tissue inhibitors, and motion preservation.