Prof. Dr. med. Amir Samii was born in 1970 in Mainz, Germany.

He has graduated from Hannover Medical School in 1995 and received his neurosurgical and neuroscience training at the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité – Humboldt University at Berlin, at the Brain Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery at the University of California Los Angeles and at the Department of Neurosurgery at Nordstadt Hospital Hannover.

 

After his full board certification as neurosurgeon he joined his father, Prof. Madjid Samii, at the International Neuroscience Institute – Hannover in 2003. He was nominated as Vice President and Deputy Medical Director of the International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover in 2008.

Presently he serves as Vice President of the China International Neuroscience Institute in Beijing, Head of the “Intraoperative Mapping and Visualization of the Human Brain” Program of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology-Magdeburg and as Professor of Neurosurgery at Hannover Medical School where he received the Venia Legendi for Experimental Neurosurgery and became Privatdozent (Associate Professor) already at the age of 31.

 

Prof. Samii has published more than 150 peer reviewed scientific papers, numerous book chapters and he has editorial functions in several important neurosurgical journals. He is a fellow of the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, received the Honorary Membership from several international neurosurgical societies and is Honorary Professor of the renowned Burdenko Institute in Moscow. He has served as invited speaker in scientific conferences and educational courses all over the world and made more than 250 presentations in the last 15 years. Prof. Samii has been Visiting Professor at numerous international universities.

 

The early scientific work of Prof. Samii was dedicated to the field of experimental traumatic brain injury. For the last 25 years he has focused his work on the surgical integration and scientific evaluation of image-guided surgery and intraoperative visualization. In these two and a half decades with several thousands of surgeries he has specialized in complex skull base surgery, in neuro-oncological surgery and minimal-invasive and complex spine surgery. Prof. Samii’s clinical and scientific contributions extended moreover into the field of hearing restoration with neurobionic implants (auditory midbrain and auditory nerve implants). In an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional effort he has received significant funding with national and international grants.

PROF. DR. MED. AMIR SAMII

CURRICULUM VITAE

Birth Date

1970

Birth Place

Mainz, Germany

 

EDUCATION

1989	Abitur, Hannover, Germany

 

1995	MD, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Hannover Medical School), Germany

 

1996-2003

Residency in Neurosurgery

 

1/96-6/97	Department of Neurosurgery, Charité – Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
7/97-7/99	Brain Research Institute and Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
9/99-3/03	Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum Hannover, Germany

 

BOARD CERTIFICATION

4/2003

Full board certification in neurosurgery with national license Ärztekammer Niedersachsen, Hannover, Germany (Medical Association of Lower Saxony)

 

ACADEMIC & SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

since 7/2014

Head Intraoperative Mapping and Visualization of the Human Brain-Program, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany

 

since 4/2009

Professor of Neurosurgery Hannover Medical School, Germany

 

since 1/2008

Co-Director Clinical Neuroscience Lab (CNS-LAB) International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Germany

 

5/2005-3/2009

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery Hannover Medical School, Germany

 

6/2002

Appointment as Examiner for the Medical Licence by the State of Lower Saxony, Germany

 

4/2002

Habilitation (professorial thesis) in Experimental Neurosurgery at Hannover Medical School receiving the venia legendi and the academic title of Privatdozent

 

2/1996

Defense of Dissertation receiving the academic degree of Dr. med. (doctor medicinae) at Hannover Medical School

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

since 09/2019

Vice President China-INI, XuanWu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

 

since 1/2008

Vice-President and Deputy Medical Director International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Germany

 

since 2/2008

Residency Program Director for Neurosurgery (Licensed by the Medical Association of Lower Saxony) International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Germany

 

since 7/2007

Co-Director Image Guided Surgery and Intraoperative MRI Center International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Germany

 

5/2005 – 7/2014

Vice-Chairman Department of Neurosurgery International Neuroscience Institute-Hannover, Germany

 

5/2003 – 4/2005

Attending Neurosurgeon (Oberarzt) International Neuroscience Institute (INI) Hannover, Germany

FURTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

since 01/2018

Member of the Hospital Management Committee of Shenzhen Samii Medical Center, Shenzhen, China

 

since 09/2017

Member of the Administrative Council (Treasurer) World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

since 09/2017

Chairman of the Finance Committee World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

since 09/2017

Member of the Executive Board World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies – Foundation

 

since 2015

Member of the Board of Trustees

 

since 2013

Member of the Board of Trustees International Neurobionics Foundation, Hannover, Germany

 

since 11/2011

CEO and Co-Founder IIMS – International Innovative Medical Solutions GmbH

 

09/2013 – 8/2017

Member of the Administrative Council (Asst. Treasurer) World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

01/2007 – 9/2013

Chairman “Neurosurgical Technology Committee” World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

9/2009 – 8/2017

Member of the “Education and Training Committee” World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

9/2009 – 9/2013

Member of the “Neuroendoscopy Committee” World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS)

 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES

German Society for Neurosurgery
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie)

German Skull Base Society
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädelbasischirurgie)

Professional Association of German Neurosurgeons
(Berufsverband Deutscher Neurochirurgen)

German Society for Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery – Founding Member
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie, CURAC)

Euroacademia Multidisciplinaria Neurotraumatologica – EMN

European Association of Neurossurgery (EANS)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

2015 – present	Deputy Editor, International Neuroscience Journal
2015 – present	International Advisory Board, Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
2015 – present	Editorial Board, Iranian Journal of Neurosurgery
2014 – present	Editorial Board, Archives of Neuroscience

2013 – present	Section Editor, World Neurosurgery
2011 – present	Advisory Board, Neurosurgical Review
Ad hoc reviewer	Numerous journals

 

HONORS AND SPECIAL AWARDS

07/2017	Honorary Member of the Italian Neurosurgical Society
11/2016	Honorary Membership for Croatian Society for cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery
10/2015	Honorary Member of the Serbian Society of Neurosurgery
07/ 2014	LIN-Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany
10/2013	Honorary Member of the Southeast European Neurosurgical Society
12/2013	Honorary Professor, Burdenko Institute, Moscow, Russia
01/2013	Invited Member of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association
01/2013	Honorary Member of the Chinese Congress of Neurological Surgeons
2012	Top Abstract Award of the World Federation of Skull Base Societies 6th International Congress of Skull Base Societies
2006	David Mendelow Price “GLP-1 secreting mesenchymal alginate-encapsulated stem cells for neuroprotection after traumatic brain damage” (senior author) Euroacademia Multidisciplinaria Neurotraumatologica 11th EMN Congress, 16.-18.03.2006, Warsaw, Poland
2005	European Skull Base Society Award 7th European Skull Base Congress (senior author)
1999	Young Researcher Award Brain ’99 – Society of cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism XIXth International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13-17, 1999