Professor Javier Fandino was born in Cartagena, Colombia, a Swiss national living abroad. After completing his medical studies in 1992 at the Universities of Xaveriana (Colombia) and Brown (USA), he worked for a year at the Colombian League Against Epilepsy.
After completing his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich, he continued his training as a neurosurgeon from 1991 to 1998 at the University Hospital Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Y. Yonekawa and at the University Hospital Bern under the supervision of Prof. R. Seiler.
This was followed by a two-year neurosurgery fellowship in the USA at the University of Virgina and University of Cincinnati. From 2000, he worked as a senior physician at the University Hospital Zurich, University Hospital Bern and Cantonal Hospital Aarau. In 2004 and 2005, he completed his habilitation at the Universities of Zurich and Bern in the field of cerebrovascular research. Between 2006 and 2011, he held the position of head physician and deputy head physician at the Clinic for Neurosurgery of the Cantonal Hospital Aarau.
After receiving the titular professorship at the University of Bern, Prof. Fandino was elected Chief Physician and Clinic Director of the Clinic for Neurosurgery at the Cantonal Hospital Aarau in 2012. During this time, his main areas of interest were the surgical treatment of brain tumors, brain aneurysms and spinal surgery. In the course of this time, he took over the management of the Brain Tumor Center and the Neuro-Pain Unit.
Since 2021, he has been practising at the Hirslanden hospitals in Zurich and Aarau and as part of the Neurosurgery Centre Zurich.
2022-dato
Activity at the Neurosurgery Center Zurich at the Hirslanden Clinic.
2021-dato
Practice as attending physician, Neurosurgery Hirslanden Kliniken Aarau und Zürich
2021-dato
Attending Neurosurgery Clinic Hirslanden
2012-2020
Chief Physician and Clinic Director, Clinic for Neurosurgery, Cantonal Hospital Aarau
2011
Titular Professor, University of Bern
2007-2011
Senior Physician and Deputy Head of the Clinic for Neurosurgery, Cantonal Hospital Aarau
2005
Habilitation, University of Bern
2004
Habilitation, University of Zurich
2003
Specialist in Neurosurgery FMH
2000-2006
Senior physician, University Hospitals Bern, Zurich and Cantonal Hospital Aarau
2000-2020
Research Associate and Head of the Cerebrovascular Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Bern. Director of the Cerebrovascular Research Group, Department of Biomedical Research (DBMR), University Hospital Bern.
1999-2000
Fellow, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA (Prof. J. Tew, Prof. M. Zuccarello)
1998-1999
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (Prof. N. Kassell, Prof. J. Jane)
1995-1998
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Y. Yonekawa)
1994-1995
Resident, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bern (Prof. R. Seiler)
1993-1994
Resident, Intensive Care Unit for Trauma Surgery, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. Dr. R. Stocker)
1992-1993
Resident, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich (Prof. F. Lagiadér)
1991-1992
Resident, Colombian League against Epilepsy/International League against Epilepsy, Cartagena, Colombia.
1992
Medical state examination
Swiss Society for Neurosurgery, SGNC
Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum, FMH
American Association of Neurological Surgeons, AANS
Congress of Neurological Surgeons, CNS
Swiss Stroke Society, SHG
Aargau Medical Association, AVV
Swiss Society of Interventional Pain Management, SSIPM
