Dr. Søren A. Singel provides patient-centric, compassionate neurosurgical care to families in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has received subspecialty training in cerebrovascular, spinal, oncological, and trauma neurosurgery. He completed fellowship training in interventional neuroradiology.

Dr. Singel is board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Following medical and doctorate studies in Berlin, Germany he completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in brain repair and molecular neurobiology at the McGill Centre for Research in Neuroscience – Centre de recherche en neurosciences (CRN), Université McGill, Montréal, Québec, Canada under Albert Aguayo.

He received undergraduate and clinical education in the People’s Republic of China, and additional visiting fellowship experience in Asia including Taiwan and Singapore.

His focus is on superior outcomes and a better experience by combining cutting-edge technology and evidence-based surgical care for complex conditions of the brain, spine and nerves.

Education

• Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen:  Medical studies (pre-clinical)
• Zhongshan Medical University 中山医科大学
• Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine 广州中医药大学
• Freie Universität Berlin: Dr. med. magna cum laude

Postdoctoral Research

• McGill University: Molecular Neurobiology

Residency

• University of California, San Diego: Neurological Surgery (Chief Resident)

Fellowship

• University of Tennessee, Memphis: Interventional Neuroradiology
• Visiting Fellow: China (复旦大学华山医院), Taiwan (台北榮民總醫院), and Singapore (全国脑神经学院)

Academic Appointments

• University of Washington (2007-2011)
• Texas A&M University (2012-2014)
• University of California, San Francisco (2015-2017)
• Stanford University (2019-2024)

Professional Societies

• Fellow, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FAANS)
• Fellow, American Congress of Neurological Surgeons (FCNS)
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS)
• Fellow, North American Spine Society (NASS)