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Dr. John M. Duff

Nationality: Irish
Summary: Dr. Duff is a US trained and Board-certified neurosurgeon, and practised in the Vaud region of western Switzerland prior to joining Mediclinic. Originally from Ireland, he pursued his entire general surgical and neurosurgical training in the United States, where he spent 12 years in practice. He is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, and latterly Tufts University in Boston and was an assistant professor of neurosurgery in the US before relocating to Switzerland in 2004. His area of expertise is in spinal surgery, specifically in minimally invasive, image-guided surgeries, and he is a US patent holder of a surgical robot. He also holds a skull-base fellowship. He is very active in academic circles as an international conference speaker, a former chair of the Spine Section of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS) and is published extensively in peer-reviewed journals. He has been based professionally for the past 30 years successively in Ireland, Australia, the USA and Switzerland.

Experience: Founder & Director I3Spine International
Vaud, Switzerland
2023-24

Former Chair Spine Section
European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS)
2019-21

Founder & Director
Avaton Surgical Group
Vaud, Switzerland
2019-22

Staff Neurosurgeon
Dept of Clinical Neurosciences
Lausanne University Hospital
Switzerland
2004-18

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
USA
2000-03

Chief of Neurosurgery
St. Elizabeth s Medical Center
Boston, MA
USA
2002-3
Education: Clinical Fellow
Neurosurgical Services
University Hospitals of Geneva and Lausanne
Switzerland
1998-2000

Clinical Fellow in Cranial Base Surgery
George Washington University
Washington DC
USA
1997-98

Chief Resident in Neurosurgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
USA
1996-97

Registrar In Paediatric Neurosurgery
Westmead Children’s Hospital
New South Wales
Australia
1995

Resident in Neurosurgery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
USA
1992-95

Halsted Resident in Surgery
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, MD
USA
1990-92

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