Mr Marcel Ivanov

Mr Marcel Ivanov MD, PhD, MSc, FRCS, Dip Med Ed is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon whose main NHS practice is based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He is Spinal Lead at the Department of Neurosurgery and Audit Lead for Neurosciences in the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. In 2017 he was elected AOSPINE UK Council Officer Neurosurgery. He qualified as a doctor in 1999 and as a Neurosurgeon in 2007 with his comprehensive neurosurgical training received initially in Iasi, Romania and post CCT Fellowship training in the UK. He was awarded Neurosurgery International Fellowship training at the UIHC, Iowa, USA (2004), received AOSPINE-EANS Spinal Fellowship training in Leeds, UK (2008) and Neuro-Oncology Fellowship training at the Walton Centre, Liverpool, UK (2009). During his training he was privileged to visit and learn from the masters in various neurosurgical centers around the world (USA, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Japan). He developed an interest in minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques and a special interest in the treatment of spinal cord tumors as well as image guided surgery of the spine and brain. Mr Ivanov is passionate about teaching; he lectures, demonstrates as well as chairs numerous neurosurgical workshops nationally and internationally. He is a member of UK National Neurosurgery Selection Board and Member of International Examination Committee for EANS (Neurosurgical Examination Board). He is frequently invited to teach on various international courses. He thinks that high quality neurosurgical education stays at the origin of professional development of each neurosurgeon. Mr Ivanov has more than 140 presentations and publications on prestigious international neurosurgical meetings, journals, books. Mr Ivanov plays an active role within European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) and AOSPINE. He was elected EANS IM Committee Member and is a Member of EANS Examination Committee. In 2017 he was elected Chair EANS International Relationships Committee and recently he was elected as UK Training Committee Representative at the EANS Mr Ivanov dedicates a lot of his time to editorial work and is the Associate Editor for Journal of Spinal Studies and Surgery as well as active reviewer for a number of other journals: Spine; British Medical Journal (BMJ); British Journal of Neurosurgery; International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery He is a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons from England and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Sheffield University.

Minimally invasive spine surgery Spinal cord tumours and vascular pathology Lumbar microdiscectomy Posterior lumbar decompression and instrumented fusion Anterior and posterior cervical decompression and fusion Spinal fractures Cervical disc replacement Neurooncology Intraoperative imaging (neuronavigation, intraoperative ultrasound, intraoperative MRI)