Ladislau Steiner, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology
Director, Lars Leksell Gamma Radiosurgery

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Medical School:  University Ferdinand, Clug-Napoca, Transylvania.

Szentgyörgy, Nobel Laureate for the definition of Vitamin C, Miskolcy, a pupil of Cajal and Shafer, Benedato codeveloper of the crossed heart-brain experimental model were Professors at the University.

Neurosurgical studies in the Department of Neurosurgery in Clug-Napoca, Department of Neurosurgery Bucharest, Department of Neurosurgery Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany and Karolinska Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.  In Stockholm, Olivecrona and Lars Leksell were his teachers.  He became close associate of Leksell.

PhD Karolinska Institute 1973.  Docent and Head of Department No. 2 of Neurosurgery Karolinska Hospital 1975 until 1987 when he became Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiology as well as Director of the Lars Leksell Gamma Knife Center.  Neurosurgical Consultant in “European Hospital”, Rome, Italy.

Published experimental and clinical papers and books on aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, vestibular and trigeminal schwannomas, metastatic brain tumors, low and high grade astrocytomas, methods of volume assessment of brain lesions, immunology in gliomas.  Together with Nobel Laureates, Bergstrom and Samulenson studies on prostaglandins and leucotrens.  Used for the first time the Gamma Knife for arteriovenous malformation and together with Leksell for vestibular schwannoma.  Devised the first hemostatic titanium clip and among other neurosurgical instruments, a stereotactic laser guide for microsurgery.

Founding, corresponding, honorary member and president of national and international societies.

Invited lecturer, panelist, chairman at national and international meetings and symposiums in five continents.

Reviewer for national and international neurosurgical and oncological journals and for the Harvard Press.

Sheline Lecturer 1991, University of San Francisco.

Leksell Lecturer 2001, Karolinska Institute.

Sugita Award 2001 from the International Society for Neurosurgical Technology and Instrument Invention.

Awarded the World Federation of Neurosurgical Society’s Gold Medal of Honor 2003.