Bernhard Schaller

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{Dr. Bernhard Schaller (b. 1969) is a Swiss physician and scientific researcher known for his contributions to the trigemino-cardiac reflex, a reflex that leads mainly to severe hypotension and bradycardia during skull base surgery.

Schaller was born in Basel and studied medicine at University of Basel. Afterwards he began his medical and scientific career in Basel and continued his career in Germany, France, Sweden and Finland.

[edit] Research

Schaller's best known - but not main - contribution to the scientific community is the first description of the "trigeminocardiac reflex" as he has described this reflex for the first time in 1999 and resolved by his work on this topic one of the great problems in skull base surgery. This reflex is now seen during most of the skull base surgical procedure and has his enormous clinical and scientific importance from this fact. Schaller has included into his concept of the "trigeminocardiac reflex" other existing autonomic reflexes and has additionally improved our knowledge about the trigeminal reflexes.

Dr. Schaller has additionally introduced a now generally accepted new classification of the meningiomas in the cerebellopontine angle.

[edit] Other activities

Schaller is known as a great humanist, continuing the great tradition of his home-town. In this sense, one can also understand his several philanthropic or leadership activities and his great engagement in Subsaharian Africa.