Meet the editors

Hamid Borghei-Razavi, MD, is director of the Minimally Invasive Cranial and Pituitary Surgery Program at Cleveland Clinic Florida, research director of the Neuroscience Institute at Cleveland Clinic Florida Region, and Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He specializes in brain tumor surgery, open and endoscopic skull base surgery, pituitary surgery, and trigeminal

neuralgia. Dr. Borghei-Razavi received his medical degree from the Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and the University of Lübeck (Universität zu Lübeck), Germany. He completed his residency training at Clemenshospital, University of Münster, Germany. During his residency training, he was awarded a scholarship by the German Society of Neurosurgery (DGNC) to participate in a resident exchange program at the prestigious Keio University Skull Base Center, Tokyo, Japan. After finishing his training in Germany, he performed a yearlong research fellowship in skull base neuroanatomy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). He then completed two clinical fellowships in neurosurgical oncology and advanced open and endoscopic skull base surgery at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, devoting his efforts to minimally invasive neurosurgical techniques.

Dr. Suero-Molina is a staff neurosurgeon at the University Hospital Münster, Germany, and the head of minimally invasive endoscopic and endonasal skull base and orbital surgery. His residency and later his fellowship in neuro-oncology and complex skull base tumors occurred in the same department at the University Hospital of Münster. He is also on the clinical staff of neuro-oncology and spine surgery at the University of Münster.

Dr. Mauricio Mandel obtained his medical degree at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and did his neurosurgery residency at Hospital das Clínicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School. Upon graduation, he received the "Edmundo Vasconcelos" prize as the best student in all surgical disciplines. Additionally, Dr. Mandel obtained a clinical Ph.D. in Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at the University of Sao Paulo in 2018. He worked

as an attending neurosurgeon at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Sao Paulo, and Hospital das Clinicas of the University of Sao Paulo from 2010 to 2019. In 2019, Dr. Mandel moved to the United States and joined Stanford University, California, as a clinical instructor. He underwent further training in epilepsy surgery at Yale University, Connecticut. Currently, he is working in the Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida-Martin Health with a focus on minimally invasive neurosurgery (cranial and spine surgery).
