Diplomate, American Board of Neurological Surgery

Fellow, American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FAANS)

Fellow, American College of Neurological Surgeons (FCNS)

Fellow, American College of Surgeons (FACS)

Spinal Microsurgery

Trauma Neurosurgery

Interventional Neuroradiology

Oncological Neurosurgery

Doctor of Medicine magna cum laude

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Centre for Research in Neuroscience

McGill University, Montréal, Canada

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences (中山医科大学)

HuaShan Hospital of FuDan University (复旦大学华山医院)

Taipei Veterans General Hospital  (台北榮民總醫院)

Tan Tock Seng Hospital – Singapore National Neuroscience Institute

Interventional Neuroradiology

University of Tennessee

Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)

American Board of Neurological Surgery (ABNS)

Søren Andreas Singel was born and raised in Essen-Werden in the Ruhr Valley, West Germany.

Earlier in life, as a young crew athlete training for rowing competitions, a boat collision caused spinal injury and paralysis.

Søren fully recovered all nerve functions, won gold at the German national rowing championships.

Following this close call and brush with paraplegia, he decided to become a neurosurgeon, to learn everything he could about the nervous system, and to improve recovery for people with serious nervous system injuries.

He studied medicine at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Freie Universität Berlin where he was awarded national scholarships from Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and DAAD. 

He graduated magna cum laude with a doctoral thesis on immune responses in the central nervous system.

To complement his Western European medical studies, Dr. Singel moved to the People’s Republic of China to study Traditional Chinese Medicine and acupuncture.

He completed clinical internships at the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (广州中医药大学) and the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (上海中医药大学).

After returning to Berlin, Dr. Singel started neurosurgery residency at the Humboldt University Medical Center.

Realizing the limitations of brain and nerve repair, and inspired by his neuroscience mentor, Nobel laureate Sir John Eccles, Dr. Singel decided to devote additional time to study molecular neuroscience.

He chose the field of neuro-regeneration, given his earlier personal experience with spinal cord trauma.

Dr. Singel was accepted into a post-doctoral research position at the McGill University Centre for Research in Neuroscience with Albert Aguayo, a pioneer in the biology of nerve repair. Dr. Singel spent the next three years working on axonal repair mechanisms in the visual system.

Dr. Singel remained in North America for his neurosurgery residency at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He trained with trauma neurosurgeon Dr. Lawrence Marshall, cerebrovascular neurosurgeon Dr. Ben U, and interventional neuroradiologist Dr. Charles Kerber.

Dr. Singel completed a fellowship in neurointerventional radiology and cerebrovascular neurosurgery at Baptist Memorial Hospital Memphis, University of Tennessee with interventional neuroradiologist Dr. John Barr and cerebrovascular neurosurgeon Dr. Clarence Watridge.

Dr Singel completed visiting fellowships at high-volume academic surgery and neurosurgery departments in Asia:

• Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences (中山医科大学), Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
• HuaShan Hospital of FuDan University (复旦大学华山医院), Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
• Taipei Veterans General Hospital  (台北榮民總醫院), Taiwan
• Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore

Dr Singel has held academic appointments with the Departments of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Stanford University.

Dr Singel is a Fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (FAANS), Fellow of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (FCNS), Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), and a Diplomate of the American Board of Neurological Surgery.