Rick Schneider

Rick Schneider is a General Surgeon of and an Assistant Professor at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. He studied medicine at the University of Leipzig, (Germany), Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York (US), University of Toronto (Canada), University of Edinburgh (UK); and Kantonspital Luzern (Switzerland), before obtaining his medical licence in 2003. From 2003 to 2010 he undertook his surgical training including general, trauma and orthopaedic, plastic and reconstructive, vascular and visceral surgery at Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg and University of Leipzig. In 2008 he became a specialist in general surgery.

Dr. Schneider has experience with neural monitoring starting in 2004. He started with animal experimental research at the University of Leipzig to apply continuous neuromonitoring system in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. After evaluation of technical feasibility, he translated the technique in clinical routine.

From 2011 to now he had postgraduate training in endocrine surgery with Professor Henning Dralle, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. Dr. Schneider has focused his clinical research on the application of continuous nerve monitoring in thyroid and parathyroid surgery and has finished his PhD on “Experimental and clinical investigations of continuous neuromonitoring in thyroid surgery”.

Dr. Schneider´s special interest is clinical and translational research of neural monitoring in thyroid and parathyroid surgery. He published numerous peer-reviewed publications on neural monitoring, including the worldwide largest single institutional study of clinical application of continuous neuromonitoring and largest multi institutional study of vocal fold function after loss of EMG signal in thyroid surgery. In 2010 he was a member of the organizing committee of the 1st European Symposium of Continuous Neuromonitoring in Thyroid Surgery in Leipzig. He is engaged in organizing international and national postgraduate courses of endocrine surgery and intraoperative neuromonitoring.

For his experimental and clinical research in thyroid surgery Dr. Schneider was awarded from Surgical working group for endocrinology (CAEK), German society for General and Visceral Surgery (DGAV), and American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES).