Mika Niemelä
Head Physician, Professor
Head of HUS Neurosurgery
Neurocenter
- Education
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MD: 1989, University of Helsinki, Finland; Board certified neurosurgeon: 1997, University of Helsinki, Finland; PhD: 2000, University of Helsinki, Finland. Doctoral thesis: “Hemangioblastomas of the CNS and retina: impact of von Hippel-Lindau disease”; Diploma in Health Administration 2004.
Areas of publications: Cerebrovascular diseases, brain tumors, basic research on aneurysm wall and genetics of intracranial aneurysms
- Specialities
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Clinical interests: Vascular, skull base and brain tumors, spine
- Languages
- Finnish, Swedish, English, German
- Positions of responsibility
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Visits: Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA, 2001-2002; ‘Major talks’: Stuart Rowe 2019, Donaghy 2020
Memberships: Finnish Neurosurgical Society (Treasurer 1995-1997; President 2004-2007); Scandinavian Neurosurgical Society (Vice President 2001-2003); AANS (Member 2001-, International Fellow 2015- ); CNS (2013-), AANS/CNS CV section executive council International liaison 2012-21, EANS (Training Committee Member 2007-2011, Vascular Committee 2012-21), The Maire Taponen Foundation (Board Member 2012-, chairman 2017-); HYKSin/Orton Ltd. (Director - neurosurgery 2014- ), WANS 2015-
Supervised PhD theses: 2021 Anni Pohjola MD: AVMs, quality of life and effect of smoking (Opponent: Karl Schaller, Geneva) 2017 Jarno Satopää MD: Intracerebral hemorrhage – neurosurgical treatment and prognosis evaluation (Opponent: A. David Mendelow, University Newcastle upon Tyne) 2017 Mardjono Tjahjadi MD: Helsinki experience on surgical approaches for clivus region vertebrobasilar artery aneurysms (Opponent Vladimir Benés, University of Prague) 2015 Atte Karppinen MD: Outcome after transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenoma (Opponent Paul Gardner, Univeristy of Pittsburgh) 2015 Hanna Lehto MD: Aneurysms of the vertebral and posterior inferior cerebellar arteries (Opponent: Andreas Gruber, University of Vienna) 2014 Serge Marbacher MD: Endovascular treatment of experimental aneurysms – pathobiology of healing response (Opponent: Jacques Morcos, University of Miami) 2014 Ahmed Elsharkawy MD: Saccular middle cerebral aneurysms (Opponent Ugur Türe, Yeditepe University, Istanbul) 2013 Anna Piippo MD: Intracranial dural AV-fistulas (Opponent Ali F. Krisht, University of Arkansas) 2012 Päivi Koronay-Pál MD PhD: Pediatric cerebal aneurysms (Opponent: Michael T. Lawton, University of California San Francisco) 2012 Emilia Gáal MD: on aneurysm genetics and growth factor induced angiogenesis (Opponent: Iver Langmoen, Oslo University) 2010 Juri Kivelev MD: on brain and spinal cavernomas (Opponent: Murat Günel, Yale University) 2010 Riikka Tulamo MD on inflammation and complement activation in the aneurysm wall (Opponent: Peter Vajkoczy, Charité, University of Berlin) 2009 Johan Marjamaa MD: on experimental MRI in rats and mice (Opponent: Fady Charbel, University of Chicago) 2009 Martin Lehecka MD: on distal anterior cerebral artery aneurysms (Opponent: Robert F Spetzler, Barrow Neurological Institute, University of Arizona)