MIHNEA STEFAN APOSTOL, MD

Dr. Mihnea Stefan Apostol is a Neurosurgery specialist, trained and clinically experienced at the "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, one of the leading neurosurgery centres in Romania. His work focuses on disorders of the spine and nervous system, with a particular interest in spinal surgery and osteoporotic vertebral fractures. He is an AO Spine member and is currently enrolled in the Global Spine Diploma programme.

Education and Training

• 2026 - present: AO Spine Global Spine Diploma
• 2026: AO Spine Principles Level Specimen Course - From Freehand to Robotics
• 2025: AO Spine Symposium - Osteoporotic fractures
• 2025: AO Spine Regional Webinar - Treatment algorithm of osteoporotic vertebral fractures
• 2019 - 2024: Residency in Neurosurgery, "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest
• 2016: Basic Surgical Skills course, Bucharest
• 2012 - 2018: Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest
• 2013 - 2016: Clinical rotations in Emergency Medicine, General Surgery and Cardiology (Bucharest Clinical Emergency Hospital) and Radiology (Fundeni Clinical Institute)

Experience

• 2026 - present: Neurosurgery Specialist, "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital, Neurosurgery Department II, Bucharest
• 2025 - 2026: Neurosurgery Specialist (volunteer), "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital, Neurosurgery Department II, Bucharest
• 2019 - 2024: Resident in Neurosurgery, "Bagdasar-Arseni" Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest

Foreign Languages

• English - C1
• German - C1 (Goethe Zertifikat)
• French - B2
• Spanish - B2
• Italian - B2
• Swedish - A2

Research and Publications

• 2024: "Alcohol consumption and traumatic spinal cord injury" - 2nd prize, Young Session, ANCA 2nd Annual Meeting
• 2021: Imaging characteristics, histopathological features and surgical considerations regarding aggressive meningiomas. Case series and review of the literature (co-author) - Romanian Neurosurgery 2021, XXXV (4): 389-394
• 2021: Clinicopathological features, imaging characteristics and surgical management in a novel tumour entity - aggressive meningiomas (co-author) - Romanian Neurosurgery 2021, XXXV (4): 385-388
• 2019 - 2025: Participant at the Congresses of the Romanian Society of Neurosurgery (45th, 46th, 48th and 50th editions)