Jussi
Posti
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Biography
Jussi Posti is Associate Professor of Neurosurgery (tenure track, phase 2/2, University of Turku) and Adjunct Professor of Neurotraumatology (University of Helsinki).
Jussi works as Head of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of the Turku Brain Injury Center at Turku University Hospital, Turku Finland. Jussi is a consultant neurosurgeon and the physician in charge of traumatic brain injury care at Turku University Hospital, Finland. His surgical practice mainly focuses on skull base tumours that require intraoperative monitoring.
Jussi is the leader of the Turku Traumatic Brain Injury Research Group.
Teaching
2017– Responsible trainer of residents in neurosurgery (Turku University Hospital and Uni. Turku)
2016– Supervision of 2nd and 3rd year med. students taking clinical investigator rotation course, every summer (Uni. Turku)
2015– Lectures on general neurosurgery, brain tumours and neurotraumatology for undergraduate (neuroscience minor) and postgraduate students (Turku Brain and Mind Center, Uni. Turku)
2013– Lectures for 4th and 6th year med. students on neurotraumatology, every spring term (Uni. Turku)
2021– Discussion group teaching on neurotraumatology and neurocritical care, Scandinavian Course in Neurosurgery (Beitostølen, Norway)
2024– Lectures and discussion groups on neurotraumatology for neurosurgery residents and young neurosurgeons, different events by the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies’ (EANS) Section of Neurotrauma and Critical Care
Research
My main research interests are biomarkers in diagnostics of acute phase, treatment effects, and outcome of traumatic brain injury, biomaterials in cranial reconstruction and neuro-oncology.