Hypo-Fractionated Stereotactic Radiosurgery Management of Large Arteriovenous Malformations

Neurosurgeon and Radiosurgeon who works in public and private practice in Bonn and Bochum, Germany, specializing in stereotactic treatments of the brain.

After completing medical school in Düsseldorf, Germany, Jan began training in Neurosurgery 1998 in Bonn and completed training in 2004 (under Prof Schramm).

Jan was offered a job as a consultant in 2005 to stay on at the Neurosurgical Department of the University Hospital Bonn where he has worked ever since, initially full-time until 2009 and after that part-time combined with radiosurgery and private practice at the Robert Janker Clinic Bonn and at the Gamma Knife Center Bochum-Langendreer.

Prof Boström has been active in neurosurgical research since he was medical student. He started working under Prof Wechsler and Prof Reifenberger in Düsseldorf on molecular pathology on Meningeomas. As a neurosurgical resident and registrar in Bonn he studied several translational neurooncologic topics and began his interest in stereotactic neurosurgery and radiosurgery.

After graduating as a neurosurgeon, Prof Boström started as a clinical academic specializing in depth electrode implantation in epilepsy (joint projects with Prof Mormann and Prof Elger, both Bonn) and radiosurgical therapy for benign brain lesions and tumors (joint projects with assoc. Profs Baumert, Bonn, and Hamm, Erfurt).