Marc Levivier

Prof. Marc Levivier studied medicine and trained in Neurosurgery at the Free University of Brussels (ULB). During his training, he developed a research interest for cellular therapies for neurodegenerative disorders, and established a collaboration with the University of Rochester, NY, and then worked as post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University, New York, NY, for which he obtained a NIH Fogarty Scholarship. In 1995, he defended his Ph.D. thesis and was appointed as Professor in Neurosurgery at the academic Erasme University Hospital in Brussels.

The clinical and research activities of Marc Levivier are primarily focusing on image-guided and mini-invasive neurosurgery, including stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, resection of brain tumors, and non-invasive radiosurgery for which he is a Gamma Knife user since 1999.

Since 2007, Marc Levivier is Full Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and Chairman of Neurosurgery at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). He is also the co-director of the "Centre Universitaire Romand de Neurochirurgie" - Lausanne-Geneva. He is the Director of the Gamma Knife Center at CHUV, where the new generation, Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion, became operational in July 2010. In 2016, the Center is among the ten first world-wide to be upgraded with the latest Leksell Gamma Knife ICON.

In that context, his current clinical and academic activities focus more specifically on neuro-radiosurgery, with new technical developments, investigations aiming at a better understanding of the radiobiological effects of radiosurgery, and advances in the improvement of functional results for patients with complex skull-base tumors, using combined approaches with microsurgery and radiosurgery.

The basic and clinical research activities of Marc Levivier are at the basis of more than 350 scientific publications and numerous awards and grants. It has given more than 300 courses and conferences. He is a member of many international scientific societies and committees (AANS, CNS, EANS, …), and he is the 2022-2024 President of the International Stereotactic Radiosurgery Society (ISRS).

He has organized several international scientific meetings, including the 2005 ISRS congress in Brussels, Belgium, and the 2017 ISRS congress in Montreux, Switzerland.

He is a member of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine and is an international member of the American Academy of Neurological Surgeons.

In 2022, the Department of Neurosurgery at CHUV has been awarded among the 100 «World’s Best Hospitals in Neurosurgery» by Newsweek.