Hands-on course "Surgical Approaches to the Cervical Spine"

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Adrian Elmi Terander is a senior consultant Neurosurgeon and an associate professor of Neurosurgery with over 20 years of experience. His main area of practice is spinal neurosurgery. His research is primarily centred on spine surgery, surgical techniques, and how to avoid complications, with a specific focus on surgical navigation technologies and augmented reality. 

Erik Edström is an associate professor and senior consultant neurosurgeon specialising in pediatric and spinal neurosurgery. Research interests include the fields of adult, pediatric, and spinal neurosurgery. Focus areas are intraoperative imaging solutions, augmented reality neuronavigation and diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for neurosurgery. 

Prof. Dr. Marisa Gandía is a neurosurgeon at Hospital Universitario La Paz and Chair of the Minimally Invasive Spine Unit at HVM Hospital, Madrid. Her clinical and research focus is minimally invasive spine surgery, supported by national and European grants, and she is an active educator in international training programs.

 Anna MacDowall is an associate professor and a senior spine surgeon at the Academic Hospital of Uppsala affiliated with Uppsala University. Anna´s speciality lies within the cervical spine and her research includes both randomized controlled studies and registered studies within the scope of cervical degenerative radiculopathy, cervical degenerative myelopathy, cervical instability, and deformity due to Rheumatoid arthritis and, subaxial fractures. 

Dr. Arvid Frostell is a consultant neurosurgeon and researcher at the

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. His thesis was on Clinical

translation of a regeneration strategy for spinal cord injury. He has extensive

experience in microsurgical and minimally invasive methods.

Dr. Rafael T Holmgren is a senior consultant and head of pediatric neurosurgery at the Department of Neurosurgery, Linköping, Sweden. He has

more than 20 years of experience in treating pediatric and adult spinal trauma,

congenital malformations, deformities, tumors, and degenerative disease.

 Halldór Skúlason is a neurosurgeon currently working at Landspitali University in Reykjavik, Iceland.  He did his training in Iceland and at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.  He is specialized in spine and vascular neurosurgery.   His main focus in spine is cervical and lumbar.  He has done research in spine navigation using augmented reality.  

Dr. Magnus Hägge is a specialist in both ENT and neurosurgery, trained in Lund, Sweden, and Brisbane, Australia. With more than 20 years of experience, he is currently working as a consultant neurosurgeon in Lund,

Skånes Universitetssjukhus, with a particular focus on spine surgery, and at Aleris as a spine consultant.