Dr. Karlo Houra

Assoc. Prof. Karlo Houra, MD, PhD specializes in minimally invasive procedures and surgery of the cervical and lumbar spine. Since joining Aksis Specialty Hospital’s expert team in April 2017, he has been developing and applying the most advanced minimally invasive spinal treatments in this part of the world – particularly, endoscopic spine neurosurgery. Expertise: Minimally invasive cervical spine surgery Minimally invasive lumbar spine surgery Diagnostic minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine procedures Therapeutic minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine procedures

Qualifications

2002 graduated from School of Medicine, University of Zagreb 2007 PhD in Physiology and Immunobiology at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb 2010 Specialist in neurosurgery 2011 Senior Research Fellow in the Biomedical and Health Sciences – Clinical Medical Science Field 2011 Permanently appointed Neurosurgery Expert Witness 2011 spent three months with Prof. Kapurala at Carolinas Pain Institute and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA 2014 Assistant Professor at the Neurosurgery Department of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine 2014 completed the course Percutaneous lumbar and thoracic endoscopic spine surgery at the Institute of Clinical Anatomy Tübingen, Germany 2014 completed Salzburg Weill Cornell University Seminar in Spinal Surgery 2014 završio Alphatec Spine MIS Symposium Hands-on Cadaver Workshop at the Institute of Anatomy, Medical University of Vienna

Experience

2004–2010 Neurosurgery residency at “Sestre milosrdnice” University Hospital Center 2011–2017 Special Hospital St. Catherine, Head of Vertebrology Department 2017 – Neurosurgeon at Aksis Special Hospital

Membership

Member of the Croatian Medical Chamber, Croatian Medical Association, Croatian Neurosurgical Society, and Board Member of the Croatian Society for Vertebrology since 2012 – reviewer of the journal Acta Clinica Croatica, OMICS Group Biomedical Journals, Progress in Orthopedic Science, and Medicine Fluminensis indexed in the MEDLINE database Since 2014, head of the course “Diagnosis and treatment of painful conditions of the spine with minimally invasive procedures” at the University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine and Nursing Studies at the University North Invited speaker at several international symposia and congresses Published 11 papers in journals indexed in Current Contents, SCI, and SCIE; 11 papers in journals indexed in other databases; 4 papers in non-indexed journals

Clinic

Aksis

Aksis is the leading Croatian hospital for neurosurgery of the spine and orthopedics of the entire locomotor system. We are focused on minimally invasive treatment methods.