Profile : Professor Christian Raftopoulos

Career path

• Graduated in medicine from the University of Liège (ULg) in 1983
• Trained in neurosurgery at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), graduating in 1989
• Aggregate professor of neurosurgery, 1994

Clinical activities

Professor Raftopoulos specialises in surgery for aneurysms, cerebral tumours, epilepsy and in the new mini-invasive techniques for spinal surgery. He was one of the first to operate on the spinal column using 3D Zeego© robotic fluoroscopy.

Societies and scientific publication

Professor Raftopoulos has published more than a hundred articles and studies in various international scientific journals. In 1998, he published a world-first scientific paper on electrode implantation around the optic nerve in a blind patient.

He is or has been president of several scientific societies:

• the French Language Neurosurgery Society;
• the scientific committee of the Fondation JED-Belgique;
• the International Group for the Study of Intervertebral Spine Approaches (GIEDA).

Languages spoken

French – English – Dutch