Martin ORTLER, MD PhD MSc.

EDUCATION / TRAINING

 

Medical Training, University of Innsbruck Medical School, Innsbruck, Austria

MD degree (Dr.med.univ)

Postdoctoral Training, Institute of Histology and Embryology, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, University of Innsbruck,

Austria

Foreign Medical Graduate Examination in the Medical Sciences (FMGEMS)

Resident, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Fellow, Clinical Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Germany

Specialist (Facharzt) in Neurosurgery

Fellow, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, University of Bonn, Germany

Secondary specialization (Additivfacharzt) in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Medicine

Training in Health Sciences (“Gesundheitswissenschaften”) UMIT, University of Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology,

Hall in Tyrol, Austria

Master degree (MSc.) in Health Sciences (“Gesundheitswissenschaften”)

Venia docendi (Priv.Doz.) for the clinical speciality “Neurosurgery”

Austrian Medical Association Diploma “Clinical Investigator” (ÖÄK-Diplom “Klinischer Prüfarzt”)

Austrian Medical Association Diploma “Manual Medicine” (ÖÄK-Diplom “Manuelle Medizin”)

 

P R O F E S S I O N A L  A P P O I N T M E N T S

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Demonstrator, Department of Anatomy, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

University Assistant, Department of Histology and Embryology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Resident, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

Consultant Neurosurgeon (Oberarzt), Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Kufstein District Hospital

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Vice Director, Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Associated Professor of Neurosurgery (“Ausserordentlicher Universitätsprofessor”),  Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Vice Chairman, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Certified court expert with the Austrian Ministry of Justice for the clinical  specialty “Neurosurgery”

Director, Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Department of Neurosurgery, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Landstrasse Municipial Hospital (former "Rudolfstiftung Hospital"), Vienna, Austria

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S E L E C T E D  M E M B E R S H I P S

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Österreichische Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (ÖGNC)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (DGNC)

European Association of Neurological Surgeons (EANS)

Austrian Spine Society (ASS)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wirbelsäulenchirurgie (DWG)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurointensivmedizin (DGNI)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für neurowissenschaftliche Begutachtung (DGNB)

Alumnivereinigung der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck

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P U B L I C A T I O N S

 

Recent 10 most important publications

 

Petr O, Glodny B, Brawanski K, Kerschbaumer J, Freyschlag C, Pinggera D,

Rehwald R, Hartmann S, Ortler M, Thomé C. Immediate Versus Delayed Surgical

Treatment of Lumbar Disc Herniation for Acute Motor Deficits: The Impact of

Surgical Timing on Functional Outcome. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Apr

1;44(7):454-463.

 

Wiegele M, Schöchl H, Haushofer A, Ortler M, Leitgeb J, Kwasny O, Beer R, Ay

C, Schaden E. Diagnostic and therapeutic approach in adult patients with

traumatic brain injury receiving oral anticoagulant therapy: an Austrian

interdisciplinary consensus statement. Crit Care. 2019 Feb 22;23(1):62.

 

Bauer M, Sohm F, Thomé C, Ortler M. Refractory intracranial hypertension in

traumatic brain injury: Proposal for a novel score to assess the safety of lumbar

cerebrospinal fluid drainage. Surg Neurol Int. 2017 Nov 1;8:265

 

Pinggera D, Unterhofer C, Görtz P, Thomé C, Ortler M. Postoperative

Thromboembolic Prophylaxis with Low-Molecular-Weight Heparin and Risk of

Rebleeding in Patients with Chronic Subdural Hematomas: A Comparative

Retrospective Cohort Study. World Neurosurg. 2017 Aug;104:284-290.

 

Helbok R, Schiefecker AJ, Friberg C, Beer R, Kofler M, Rhomberg P,

Unterberger I, Gizewski E, Hauerberg J, Möller K, Lackner P, Broessner G,

Pfausler B, Ortler M, Thome C, Schmutzhard E, Fabricius M. Spreading

depolarizations in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage:

Association with perihematomal edema progression. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2017

May;37(5):1871-1882.

 

Unterhofer C, Freyschlag CF, Thomé C, Ortler M. Opening the Internal Hematoma

Membrane Does Not Alter the Recurrence Rate of Chronic Subdural Hematomas: A

Prospective Randomized Trial. World Neurosurg. 2016 Aug;92:31-36.

 

Schubert GA, Seiz-Rosenhagen M, Ortler M, Czabanka M, Scheufler KM, Thomé C.

Cortical indocyanine green videography for quantification of acute hypoperfusion

after subarachnoid hemorrhage: a feasibility study. Neurosurgery. 2012 Dec;71(2

Suppl Operative):ons260-7; discussion ons267-8.

 

Lackner P, Koppelstaetter F, Ploner P, Sojer M, Dobesberger J, Walser G,

Schmutzhard E, Schmidauer C, Bauer R, Unterberger I, Ortler M, Trinka E. Cerebral

vasospasm following temporal lobe epilepsy surgery. Neurology. 2012 Apr

17;78(16):1215-20.

 

Ortler M, Fiegele T, Walser G, Trinka E, Eisner W. Cranial nerve monitoring

during subpial dissection in temporomesial surgery. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2011

Jun;153(6):1181-9.

 

Ortler M, Sohm F, Eisner W, Bauer R, Dobesberger J, Trinka E, Widmann G, Bale

R. Frame-based vs frameless placement of intrahippocampal depth electrodes in

patients with refractory epilepsy: a comparative in vivo (application) study.

Neurosurgery. 2011 Apr;68(4):881-7; discussion 887.

 

For a complete PubMed Listing, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ortler++M

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