Dr. Bruno Lourenço Costa

Areas of activity: Spine surgery; pain medicine, headache, facial pain, spinal pain, brachial pain, sciatica pain, neuropathic pain, cancer pain; aneurysm; vascular malformation; glioma; meningioma; metastasis; lymphoma; disc herniation; spinal stenosis; olisthesis; scoliosis; hydrocephalus; non-surgical treatment; percutaneous surgery; endoscopic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; microsurgery brain surgery; spinal surgery, spinal cord and peripheral nerve surgery; brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve stimulation for pain treatment

Career at Hospital da Luz

Neurosurgeon at the Hospital da Luz network since 2022

Training

Degree in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra
Masters in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
PhD student in Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra
Fellowship in highly complex vascular and skull base microsurgery, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Voluntary internship in 4 world-renowned centers for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases

Professional career summary

Complementary Neurosurgery Internship at the Coimbra Hospital and University Center
Neurosurgeon at the Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro EPE Hospital Center
Performing around 5000 surgeries on pediatric and adult patients
Researcher in scientific projects in the areas of microsurgical anatomy, surgical instrumentation and surgical simulation
Academic exam jury
Guest speaker at scientific conferences
Trainer in neurosurgery courses
Author of 2 microneurosurgery atlases
Author of 2 internationally applicable neurosurgical scales
Author of 24 scientific articles, 23 communications at scientific congresses and 34 posters displayed at scientific congresses
Member of the editorial board of 4 scientific journals and reviewer of 17 scientific journals
[updated May, 2022]

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Professional career summary