FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGEON
Specialist in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, neuromodulation, and surgical treatment of chronic pain
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FUNCTIONAL NEUROSURGEON
Specialist in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery, neuromodulation, and surgical treatment of chronic pain
I am a neurosurgeon specializing in functional, stereotactic and neuromodulation neurosurgery. After completing my Degree in Medicine (MD) at the Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City (Mexico), I completed a PhD in Neurosciences at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands).
Following that, I pursued training as a specialist in neurosurgery at the University Hospital of Cologne (Germany). I continued at that hospital, completing a clinical fellowship in the sub-specialization of functional neurosurgery and went on to become an Attending Physician and Head of the Neuromodulation Section of the Department of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Upon receiving my qualification as Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Cologne Faculty of Medicine, I continued my academic and scientific activity as Head of the Functional Neurosurgery Laboratory and Research Group, a position I continue to hold, which involves research, teaching, and development of new projects in functional neurosurgery and neuromodulation.
My training has been enriched with clinical rotations and short-term training stays at internationally respected medical centers, including Jackson Memorial Hospital - University of Miami (United States), Yonsei University Medical Center in Seoul (South Korea), and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, in London (United Kingdom).
My clinical practice is especially focused on neurosurgical treatment of movement disorders, chronic pain, and neuropsychiatric diseases. I have extensive experience in deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation.
Neurosurgeon specializing in functional neurosurgery at Instituto Clavel, Spain (2026–present)
Head of the Functional Neurosurgery Laboratory, Department of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany (2021–present)
Attending Physician and Head of the Neuromodulation Section, Department of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany (2019–2026)
Master's degree in Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Spain (2025-2026)
Master’s degree in Health Business Administration (MHBA), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany (2023-2025)
Fellowship diploma, European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN) (2023)
Venia Legendi qualification in Neurosurgery, University of Cologne, Germany (2022)
Clinical Fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery, University Hospital Cologne, Germany (2020-2021)
Neurosurgical residency, University Hospital Cologne, Germany (2013–2019)
Diploma in Neurosciences, European Graduate School of Neuroscience (EURON) (2012)
PhD in Neurosciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands (2009–2012)
Degree in Medicine (MD), Universidad Anáhuac, Mexico (2002-2008)
Spanish
English
German
French
PARKINSON'S DISEASE
DYSTONIA
ESSENTIAL TREMOR
TREATMENT-RESISTANT OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
TREATMENT-RESISTANT CLINICAL DEPRESSION
TOURETTE SYNDROME
SEVERE SPASTICITY
NEUROPATHIC LIMB PAIN
PERSISTENT LOW BACK PAIN AFTER SURGERY
PHANTOM LIMB PAIN
VERTEBROGENIC PAIN
TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA
MIGRAINE
ATYPICAL FACIAL PAIN
NEUROPATHIC PAIN
COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME
SPINAL CORD INJURY
CLUSTER HEADACHES
ISCHEMIC PAIN
PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION
SACROILIAC JOINT PAIN
POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA
CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE
OCCIPITAL NEURALGIA
THALAMIC PAIN
POST-STROKE PAIN
HYDROCEPHALUS
Member of the Board of Directors, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) (2026-present)
Member of the editorial committee for the following journals: Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Brain and Spine, Archives of Neurosurgery, and BMC Medicine.
Active member of the following scientific associations: European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (ESSFN), World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN), European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS), and the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC).
Offer of Full Professor position (W2) in Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany (2026, offer declined)
Cycle of training courses of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
Klaus Junghanns scholarship in the area of Neuroprosthetics, awarded by the German Surgical Society (DGCH) (2026)
Best Presentation award, European Congress of Neurosurgery of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), Sofia, Bulgaria (2024).
EANS Research Fund award, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2023).
Best Poster award, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery (WSSFN) Congress, Incheon, South Korea (2022).
Traugott Riechert Award for the best research project in Functional Neurosurgery, German Society for Neurosurgery (DGNC) (2021).
Best Poster award for poster in Neuromodulation, Congress of the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC), Magdeburg, Germany (2017).
Exchange fellowship, International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) (2012).
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Fellowship for collaborative research stay (2011).
New Investigator Competition Award, International Neuromodulation Society (INS) (2009).
Training grant, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (United States) (2009).
Efficacy of intracranial surgical treatments for chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Brain & Spine.
Schmahl R, Cid-Rodríguez FX, Marquez-Franco R, Heiden P, Loução R, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P.
Patient-specific structural connectomic differences of deep brain stimulation targets in treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder patients. Translational Psychiatry.
Marquez-Franco R, Ruelas L, Loução R, Schmahl R, Cid Rodríguez FX, Heiden P, Kuhn J, Koy A, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P.
Thalamo-frontal functional connectivity patterns in Tourette Syndrome: Insights from combined intracranial DBS and EEG recordings. Molecular Psychiatry.
Wehmeyer L, Baldermann JC, Pogosyan A, Rodriguez Plazas F, Loehrer PA, Bonetti L, Yassine S, Zur Mühlen K, Schüller T, Kuhn J, Visser-Vandewalle V, Tan H, Andrade P.
A critical role of action-related functional networks in Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. Nature Communications.
Baldermann JC, Petry-Schmelzer JN, Schüller T, Mahfoud L, Brandt GA, Dembek TA, van der Linden C, Krauss JK, Szejko N, Müller-Vahl KR, Ganos C, Al-Fatly B, Heiden P, Servello D, Galbiati T, Johnson KA, Butson CR, Okun MS, Andrade P, Domschke K, Fink GR, Fox MD, Horn A, Kuhn J, Visser-Vandewalle V, Barbe MT.
Cortico-thalamic tremor circuits and their associations with deep brain stimulation effects in essential tremor. Brain.
He S, West TO, Plazas FR, Wehmeyer L, Pogosyan A, Deli A, Wiest C, Herz DM, Simpson TG, Andrade P, Baig F, Hart MG, Morgante F, FitzGerald JJ, Barbe MT, Visser-Vandewalle V, Green AL, Pereira EA, Cagnan H, Tan H.
Structural Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia from Patient-Individual Tractography Is Key for Understanding the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
Loução R, Kocher M, Brandt GA, Petry-Schmelzer JN, Barbe M, Dafsari H, Mana J, Jech R, Wirths J, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P, Baqapuri H, Luehrs M, Linden DEJ, Santyr B, Lozano A, Bongioanni A, Jarraya B, Cukur T.
Deep brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder: a crisis of access. Nature Medicine.
Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P, Mosley PE, Greenberg BD, Schuurman R, McLaughlin NC, Voon V, Krack P, Foote KD, Mayberg HS, Figee M, Kopell BH, Polosan M, Joyce EM, Chabardes S, Matthews K, Baldermann JC, Tyagi H, Holtzheimer PE, Bervoets C, Hamani C, Karachi C, Denys D, Zrinzo L, Blomstedt P, Naesström M, Abosch A, Rasmussen S, Coenen VA, Schlaepfer TE, Dougherty DD, Domenech P, Silburn P, Giordano J, Lozano AM, Sheth SA, Coyne T, Kuhn J, Mallet L, Nuttin B, Hariz M, Okun MS.
Connectivity in deep brain stimulation for self-injurious behavior: multiple targets for a common network? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Heiden P, Weigel DT, Loução R, Hamisch C, Gündüz EM, Ruge MI, Kuhn J, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P.
Thalamic deep brain stimulation for Tourette Syndrome: A naturalistic trial with brief randomized, double-blinded sham-controlled periods. Brain Stimulation.
Baldermann JC, Kuhn J, Schüller T, Kohl S, Andrade P, Schleyken S, Prinz-Langenohl R, Hellmich M, Barbe MT, Timmermann L, Visser-Vandewalle V, Huys D.
1.2 kHz High-Frequency Stimulation as a Rescue Therapy in Patients with Chronic Pain Refractory to Conventional Spinal Cord Stimulation. Neuromodulation.
Andrade P, Heiden P, Visser-Vandewalle V, Matis G.
Modulation of Fibers to Motor Cortex during Thalamic DBS in Tourette Patients Correlates with Tic Reduction. Brain Sciences.
Andrade P, Heiden P, Hoevels M, Schlamann M, Baldermann JC, Huys D, Visser-Vandewalle V.
Local Field Potential-Guided Contact Selection Using Chronically Implanted Sensing Devices for Deep Brain Stimulation in Parkinson's Disease. Brain Sciences.
Strelow JN, Dembek TA, Baldermann JC, Andrade P, Jergas H, Visser-Vandewalle V, Barbe MT.
Validation of Tenths Stereotactic Coordinates Method Using Probabilistic Tractography of the Ansa Lenticularis in Parkinson's Disease Patients. World Neurosurgery.
Márquez-Franco R, Concha L, García-Gomar MG, Carrillo-Ruíz JD, Loução R, Barbe MT, Brandt GA, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P, Velasco-Campos F.
Incidence and Management of Hardware-Related Wound Infections in Spinal Cord, Peripheral Nerve Field, and Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: A Single-Center Study.
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.
van Kroonenburgh I, Tan SKH, Heiden P, Wirths J, Matis G, Seifert H, Visser-Vandewalle V, Andrade P.
Neuroprothetik. Die Chirurgie.
Andrade P, Mercado R, Jimenez F, Visser-Vandewalle V.
