Professor Reisch was born on October 19th, 1971, Budapest, Hungary. He has finished the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest in 2006 with the highest award “Pro Scientia” Prize, founded by the President of the Hungarian Republic. After a one-year fellowship in the Anatomical Institute of the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest, he graduated the neurosurgical training from 1997 to 2003 in the Neurosurgical Department of Mainz (Chairman: Prof. Axel Perneczky). He passed his neurosurgical national board examination in 2003 and became associate professor. From 2005 to 2008 he was Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Neurosurgical Department of the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz. In 2008 he moved to Zurich, Switzerland.

Professor Reisch is author an co-author of numerous scientific publications if the field of endoscopic and minimally invasive neurosurgery, including the comprehensive book on Minimally Invasive Approaches in Neurosurgery, published in 2008 by Springer Verlag. Currently, he is tutor of the national course Cranial Neuroendoscopy of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) on and together with Professor Nikolai Hopf course director of the international neuroendoscopy courses of the Aesculap Academy.

Written by Thomas Santarius