Pascal Mosimann

Professor Mosimann was born and raised in Switzerland and is the Division Head of Interventional and Diagnostic Neuroradiology at the Toronto Western Hospital, UHN, since February 2023. He is trilingual in English, French and German and Professor of Medical Imaging/ Neuroradiology with a cross-appointment in Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mosimann joined JDMI’s Neuroradiology Division in July 2022. He was recruited from Essen, Germany, where he served as the Chief Deputy/Vice Head at the Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus. Alongside Professor Chapot, he invented new treatment techniques and is one of the few experts worldwide to master the art of transvenous embolization to cure brain AVMs. Prior to that, he held privileged leadership positions in the University Hospitals of Bern and Lausanne, in Switzerland.
He has published ~ 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and raised over $3 million in grant money. His current research interests focus on clinical and translational device development to better treat ischemic stroke, brain aneurysms & arteriovenous malformations, as well as venous outflow related pathologies causing pulsatile tinnitus or raised intracranial hypertension.
His team is developing a new generation of guide wires for enhanced neurovascular navigation, biocompatible photosensitive hydrogels to occlude aneurysms, endovascular sympathetic denervation probes to treat cerebral vasospasm, as well as the next generation of flow-driven, magnetically steerable, robotically-assisted microcatheters that may enable remote interventions in the near future. Dr. Mosimann is widely acclaimed and internationally recognized for his mentoring skills and expertise in novel, ground-breaking interventional techniques for complex neurovascular diseases, in particular brain pial and dural AVMs and aneurysms.