Marc Levivier. MD, PhD, IFAANS, is Emeritus Professor at the University of Lausanne and pursues a clinical activity at the NeuroKnife Center, Hôpital La Tour in Geneva, with a specific focus on Linac-based radiosurgery for patients with cranial and spinal conditions.
He trained in Neurosurgery at the Free University of Brussels. His clinical and research activities at the University Erasme Hospital in Brussels focused on stereotactic, functional and image-guided neurosurgery, and non-invasive radiosurgery for which he has been a Gamma Knife user since 1999.
In 2007, he was appointed as Full Professor at the University of Lausanne and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), and was the Director of the Gamma Knife Center, which opened in 2010.
His focus on radio-neurosurgery includes new technical developments, better understanding of the radiobiological effects of radiosurgery, advances in the improvement of functional results for patients with complex skull-base tumors, using combined approaches with microsurgery and radiosurgery, and the development of new algorithms to optimize dosimetry planning.
His academic activities are at the basis of more than 400 scientific publications and numerous awards and grants. He has given more than 300 courses and conferences. He is a member of many international scientific societies and committees and he was the 2022-2024 President of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS). He currently serves as chair of the Education Committee of ISRS.
He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and an international member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgery.