Karlo Houra

Well trained clinical professional with more than 20 years of experience in neurosurgery and spine surgery. Strong background in basic clinical science, intraoperative neuromonitoring, minimally invasive pain and spine procedures as well as in research and teaching. Exceptional communicator with both meticulous manual and critical thinking skills and with problem solving skills in various fields of neurosurgery. Specialization: endoscopic surgery for lumbar, thoracic and cervical spine, spinal cord microsurgery, microsurgery of the cervical and lumbar disc herniation, minimally invasive pain procedures in local anesthesia for diagnostics and treatment of cervical and lumbar axial and radicular spinal pain, brain tumor microsurgery, cranial neuron avigation and head injuries.

Education

2014:   Assistant Professor for Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Croatia

2014: Completed Percutaneous Endoscopic Surgery of the Lumbar and Thoracic Spine training course at the Institute of Anatomy, Tübungen, Germany

2011: Three months of work and education in Carolinas Pain Institute and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA in the field of minimally invasive spine and pain procedures with prof. Leonardo Kapural

2011: Elected to Senior Research Associate degree in scientific field biomedicine and health-clinical medical sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

2011: Appointed as an Expert witness in the Court of law in the field of Neurosurgery, Zagreb, Croatia

2009: One month of work and education in Intraoperative Neurophysiology Department at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat in Frankfurt am Main, Germany with dr. Andrea Szelenyi.

2008: Three months of work and education in Intraoperative Neurophysiology Department at St. Luke-Roosevelt hospital in New York City, USA with prof. Vedran Deletis.

2008: Elected to Research Associate degree in scientific field biomedicine and health-clinical medical sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

2008: Completed postdoctoral course of first category: “The art of medical teaching”, Zagreb, Croatia

2007: Completed Intraoperative Neuromonitoring (IONM) Specialties Practical Training Course, Lucerne, Switzerland

2007: Ph.D. degree at Faculty of Science University of Zagreb, Croatia

2007: Completed Multimodal Intraoperative Neuromonitoring course, Freiburg, Germany

2007: Completed International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) advanced course, Rijeka, Croatia

2007 and 2014: Completed Salzburg Weill Cornell University Seminar in Neurosurgery and Spinal surgery, Salzburg, Austria.

2004 – 2010: Residency in neurosurgery, Clinical Hospital Centre Sisters of charity, Zagreb, Croatia

2002 – 2003: Internship in Clinical Hospital Centre Rebro, Zagreb, Croatia

1998 – 2002: University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated with high honors.

2000: Three months of scholarship from the American W.I.S.E. (A Worldwide Institute Supporting Exchange of culture and science) organization in medical center in Bangor, Maine, USA

1996 – 1998: University of Rijeka, School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia

1996: Masuk high school, Connecticut, USA. Graduated with high honors.