Robotics in Skull-Base Surgery

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Dr. Mohammed Maan Al-Salihi is a medical doctor from Iraq currently working at the Department of Neurosurgery at Wisconsin University. Published many papers in international peer-reviewed neurosurgical journals editor of the books published by Springer Pineal Neurosurgery and Introduction to Robotics in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery. Apart from these publications Mohammed has devised many research courses for neurosurgical residents in Iraq at the Neurosurgery Teaching Hospital. Also he works as a reviewer in various international peer-reviewed neurological journals. Mohammed was the first Iraqi medical student to publish a neurosurgical paper and the first to edit a book published by a prestigious publishing company. He has authored the chapter Evolutionary Retrace of the Third Eye and explored the evolutionary background of the pineal gland emphasizing the why rather than the how trying to understand how this organ first appeared and why it has attained its current status. Mohammed is the editor of the first book that discusses robotics in Neurosurgery in a systematic well-organized specialty-based manner.Prof. Ali Ayyad is a Senior consultant neurosurgeon currently working at Hamad General Hospital Doha Qatar. He is also an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at Saarland University Homburg-Germany and editor of the Introduction to Robotics in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery book which is published by Springer. His interests encompass skull base cerebrovascular minimally invasive neurosurgery and Neuro endoscopy. Professor Ayyad holds the portfolio of Director of Research at the Department of Neurosurgery in Hamad General Hospital Doha. He has to his credit a number of publications in leading neurosurgical journals and has also coauthored multiple book chapters. He has been invited as distinguished faculty to numerous regional and international conferences and his services as a neurosurgery instructor and tutor at a plethora of workshops including micro neurosurgery and neuro endoscopy speak volumes of his keen interest as an educationist in neurosurgery. Prof. R. Shane Tubbs is a clinical anatomist who practiced in pediatric neurosurgery at the Childrens Hospital in Birmingham for 25 years. His research interests are centered around what his lab has termed reverse translational anatomy research where clinical/surgical problems are identified and addressed via anatomical studies. This investigative paradigm has resulted in over 1600 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Tubbs lab has made novel discoveries in human anatomy and many anatomical feasibility studies from his lab have been used by surgeons around the world. He has been a visiting professor to major institutions in the U.S. and worldwide. He has authored/edited over 50 books including Grays Anatomy Review Grays Clinical Photographic Dissector of the Human Body Netters Introduction toClinical Procedures Anatomy for Plastic Surgery of the Face Head and Neck Nerves and Nerve Injuries A History of Human Anatomy and Bergmans Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation. He is an editor for the 41st and 42nd editions of Grays Anatomy and the 5th through 7th editions of Netters Atlas of Human Anatomy and is editor-in-chief of Clinical Anatomy the official journal of the American and British Associations of Clinical Anatomists. Dr. Tubbs was recently named chair of the Federative International Programme on Anatomical Terminologies. Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Oertel MD began his career in 1989 by studying medicine at the Hannover Medical School and at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. After internship in Munich and Hannover and receiving his doctor's degree he began working at the Neurosurgical Department at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald. After completing residency he moved to Hannover where he received his habilitation at the Hannover Medical school and became member of the faculty of medicine at the Hannover Medical School in 2005. In 2006 he was appointed Vice Director of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Nordstadtkrankenhaus Hannover. In 2008 he became Vice Chairman of the department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Mainz acting as chairman for 5 months in 2010. In December 1 2010 Prof. Dr. med. Joachim Oertel was appointed as a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Adult and Pediatric Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Saarland and the faculty of medicine Saarland University. In 2020 he was Laureate at the Ginde Oration of the Bombay Hospital Trust India.  Prof. Oertel has published more than 200 papers in almost all the fields of Neurosurgery and he had authored more than 30 book chapters.