About Georg Widhalm

Georg Widhalm started out as a junior doctor at the Department of Neurosurgery of MedUni Vienna/Vienna General Hospital, completed his specialist training in 2009 and has worked as a senior doctor in the Department since 2016. Before taking up his research placement abroad, he served for many years as head of the interdisciplinary neurooncology tumour board within the Comprehensive Cancer Center (Central Nervous System Tumour Unit CCC-CNS). He habilitated in neurosurgery in 2012 and completed his doctorate in 2013 (Dr. med. scient.) on PhD course N0790 at MedUni Vienna (Clinical Neuroscience, CLINS). Since 2014 he has headed up the Neurosurgical Oncology Working Group of the Austrian Society of Neurosurgery (ANCO).

Since August 2016, Georg Widhalm has been on a research placement (Schrödinger scholarship) at the Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Together with the Head of Department, Mitchel Berger, he is conducting a joint study with the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, USA). In this study, an innovative spectroscopic measuring probe based on fluorescence technology is being used to further improve intra-operative tumour visualisation. In his capacity as an international expert, Georg Widhalm also participated in the FDA process for approval of 5-ALA for neurosurgical procedures in the USA. His other major prizes include: 2006 Fellinger Cancer Research Prize, 2011 Researcher of the Month at MedUni Vienna, 2011 Vienna Medical Association Billroth Prize, 2017 Mentorship Award in the “Surgical Innovations” competition at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).