Mario Brock

Mario Brock (born October 9, 1938 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) is a Brazilian-German neurosurgeon .

Life

Mario Brock was born as the son of Martin Brock from Hirschberg (Silesia) and Flora (née Kalb) from Breslau . He has both German and Brazilian citizenship and has been working as a neurosurgeon in Germany since 1966. Brock is married and has two sons and a daughter.

In the early 1960s - after several study visits to Scandinavia - Brock introduced the measurement of local cerebral blood flow and continuous monitoring of internal cranial pressure into the clinical routine of neurosurgery. He described the so-called ramp waves in patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus . He experimentally investigated the redistribution of local cerebral blood flow through hyperventilation, a method that later became routine treatment. Together with H. Dietz, he described the "small frontolateral access" to the aneurysms of the front half of the Circulus Willysii at the base of the brain. Together with HM Mayer, he described various endoscopic percutaneous ("minimally invasive") approaches to the spine that are now part of clinical routine.

Several hundred young neurosurgeons from all over the world - mainly from South and Central America - attended one-month courses at the neurosurgery clinic headed by Brock with the help of grants from the Berlin Senate and the German Academic Exchange Service .

Professional background

From January to October 1963 Brock worked as an assistant in the neurosurgical department of the Neurological Institute of the University of Brasília , which was headed by Professor Rosé Ribe Portugal. In October 1963 he took over the management of the neurosurgical department at the hospital of the military police in Rio de Janeiro.

From April 1, 1964 to March 31, 1965 he was a visiting scientist in the neurosurgical department of the University of Cologne , where he received his doctorate on April 6, 1965 . On January 1, 1966, he took up a position as a research assistant at the Neurosurgical Department of the University of Mainz , which he held until March 31, 1970.

Between 1966 and 1968 Brock spent five months as a visiting scientist in the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology at Lund University in Sweden. During this time he undertook the first experimental and clinical experiments on the pathophysiology of local cerebral blood flow.

In January 1970 Brock was recognized as a specialist in neurosurgery in Hanover, where on April 1, 1970 he became senior physician in the neurosurgical clinic of the Hanover Medical School . A year later he also received the Venia Legendi for neurosurgery, the subject in which he was appointed associate professor on February 22, 1974.

On May 5, 1978 Brock accepted a call to full professor and director of the Clinic for Neurosurgery at the Free University of Berlin . October 1, 2003 he assumed the post of Director of the Neurosurgical Clinic of the Charité University Hospital in Berlin , where he on 1 May 2006 emeritus was.

Honors, offices, honorary professorships

From January 1983 Brock served as Chairman of the Training Committee of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies . In this position, he was responsible for organizing weekly one-week training courses in neurosurgery (each year in a different country) for 150 young neurosurgeons from across Europe. In 1985 he received an honorary doctorate from the Pelotas University in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. In 1987 he was promoted to Vice-President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies , whose presidency he would later hold from 1991 to 1995.

On January 29, 1988 Brock received from the hands of the President of the Republic of Brazil, José Sarney , the Rio Branco Order ( Ordem de Rio Branco , the Brazilian Cross of Merit).

In 1995 Brock organized the 10th European Congress of Neurosurgery in Berlin and became Vice President of the International Society for Minimal Intervention in Spinal Surgery and President of the International Society of Neurosurgical Instrument Inventors .

This was followed by the presidency of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery from 1996 and that of the “Neurosurgery” section of the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes a year later.

January 19, 1999 Brock was the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Roman Herzog , the Federal Cross of Merit First Class.

In 2001 Brock took over the office of Vice President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and one year later became President of the German Academy for Neurosurgery .

The Universidade Federal do Ceará appointed him Professor honoris causa in 2004 . In 2007 he was Invited Guest of Honor at the annual meeting of the Academia Brasileira de Neurocirurgia .

Fonts

Brock is the editor or co-editor of 32 books and more than 200 publications in academic journals.

editor

• Cerebral Blood Flow. Clinical and Experimental Results. Springer publishing house. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 1969
• Intracranial Pressure. Springer publishing house. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. 1972.

literature

• Spinal Surgery and Related Disciplines (World Spine 1), Monduzzi Editore, Bologna, 2000.
• Neurosurgery in Germany: Past and Present. Published on behalf of the German Society for Neurosurgery . Blackwell Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin / Vienna, 2001.