Günther C. Feigl

Günther C. Feigl (born 1968, Graz) is an Austrian neurosurgeon. Feigl is an internationally renowned expert in minimally invasive neurosurgery. His main areas of expertise include neuro-oncology, neuroendoscopy, and complex skull base surgery. He specializes in the surgery of gliomas, minimally invasive endoscopy-assisted microvascular decompression in trigeminal neuralgia (facial pain) and facial hemispasm (involuntary facial twitching) as well as the surgery of acoustic neuromas (tumors of the vestibular nerves), tumors of the pineal gland and meningiomas of the skull base. Furthermore, his specialties comprise treatment of pituitary adenomas, spinal cord tumours and metastases as well as the area of pediatric neurosurgery.

In addition to his clinical practice, Prof. Feigl is actively engaged in scientific research and medical education. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and invited lectures and has made significant contributions to the advancement of micro and minimally invasive neurosurgery, skull base surgery, neuro-oncology and radiosurgery.

Education Prof. Feigl began his medical education in the USA. After studying in Dallas, Houston and Graz and several years of brain tumor research at the Neuroscience Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, the largest medical center in the world, he was working on his thesis on radiosurgery in the treatment of pituitary tumors using the gamma-knife method.

He started his neurosurgical training in Germany, where he trained at INI (International Neuroscience Institute) in Hannover with the worldwide renowned neurosurgeon and pioneer in the field of neurosurgery Madjid Samii. He later continued his residency in neurosurgery at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen under the guidance of Prof. Marcos Tatagiba, where he received his second doctoral degree and earned his PhD.

Career Feigl studied at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and has equally acquired an associate professorship for neurosurgery. As Head of Skull Base Surgery at Katharinenhospital in Stuttgart, he specialized in minimally invasive neurosurgery and neuroendoscopy.

From December 2015 to March 2025 Prof. Feigl has been chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Klinikum Bamberg. Aside from his position as chairman, he was Medical Director of the Skull Base and Brain Tumor Center which he founded as part of the clinic and social foundation Bamberg (Sozialstiftung Bamberg). He was also the Medical Director of Neuronetz Bamberg practice center and served as Head of the interdisciplinary Spine Center for maximum care, which he initiated and founded. The center has been certified by the German Spine Society (DWG). It is the third interdisciplinary spine center (neurosurgery/orthopedic surgery) in Bavaria and the first non-university center in the region.

Since April 2025, Prof. Feigl has been working in his private practice in Vienna and leading the Department of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery as Chief Physician at Oberwart Hospital.

Due to his internationally recognized expertise in minimally invasive skull base surgery and neuro-oncology, Günther C. Feigl became an affiliate faculty member at the Houston Methodist Research Institute (HMRI) Neurosciences Research Program in March 2018 and Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at the Houston Methodist Hospital (IAM) in December 2019.

Feigl is a member of the medical advisory board of the Acoustic Schwannoma Patient Support Group, the German Skull Base Society and the German Neurological Society. He is a founding member of the European Low Grade Glioma Network (ELGGN).

Publications His most-cited peer reviewed publications are:

Feigl, G. C., Decker, K., Wurms, M., Krischek, B., Ritz, R., Unertl, K., & Tatagiba, M. (2013). Neurosurgical procedures in the semisitting position: Evaluation of the risk of paradoxical venous air embolism in patients with a patent foramen ovale. World Neurosurgery.

Most recent publications:

Kuzmin, D., Staribacher, D., & Feigl, G. C. (2026). Reducing complications using minimally invasive retrosigmoid approach for microvascular decompression in patients with trigeminal neuralgia. Neurosurgical Review, 49, 27.

Feigl, G. C., Bosnjak, R., Staribacher, D., Britz, G., Stolevski, V., & Kuzmin, D. (2025). Total resection of clival chordoma with brainstem invasion via endoscopic transnasal approach: Technical note. World Neurosurgery, 199, 124101.