# Kirsten Schmieder

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## TL;DR

Neurosurgeon who serves as Medical Director and Chair of the Board of University Hospital Düsseldorf, home of the CIO Düsseldorf cancer centre.

## Summary

Kirsten Schmieder is Medical Director (Ärztliche Direktorin) and Chair of the Board of Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf. A professor of neurosurgery, she previously chaired the neurosurgery department at Ruhr University Bochum. As Medical Director she leads the hospital's clinical enterprise, which includes the Center for Integrated Oncology (CIO) Düsseldorf, part of the CIO Aachen Bonn Cologne Düsseldorf consortium.

## Fields

- Kind: Person
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Tags: leadership; neurosurgery
- Role: Medical Director and Chair of the Board
- Specialisms: Neurosurgery; Hospital leadership; Neuro-oncology

## Sources

- Institution profile: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/ueber-das-ukd/unternehmen/vorstand
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Schmieder+K%5BAuthor%5D+neurosurgery

## Connected records

- cancers: [Glioma & glioblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/)
- institutions: [University Hospital Düsseldorf / CIO Düsseldorf](https://onco.cc/institutions/uk-duesseldorf/)
- journals: [Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology](https://onco.cc/journals/journal-of-cancer-research-and-clinical-oncology/)

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