Médecin agrée — Clinique de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Suisse
Spécialiste FMH en neurochirurgie
Clinique de Montchoisi
Chemin des Allinges 16
1006 Lausanne
Médecin agrée — Clinique de Montchoisi, Lausanne, Suisse
Faculty (formateur) pour Stoeckli Medical (chirurgie endoscopique du rachis) et Medtronic ; intervenant lors de divers cours crâniens et spinaux (endoscopie, rachis, base du crâne)
Médecin adjoint — Hôpital de Sion, Valais, Suisse ; Neurochirurgien, Summit Clinic, Crans-Montana, Valais, Suisse
Médecin hospitalier — Hôpital de Sion, Valais, Suisse
Chef de clinique — Hôpital de Sion, Valais, Switzerland
Clinical Lecturer — University of Western Australia (UWA), Australie
Fellow en neurochirurgie — Perth University Hospital, Australie
Junior Consultant — Hôpital universitaire de la Réunion, France
Responsable du nouveau laboratoire d'anatomie chirurgicale — CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse
Consultant en neurochirurgie, Service de Neurochirurgie — CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse
Fellowship d'un an, chef de clinique en chirurgie du rachis, Chirurgie orthopédique — Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourg, Suisse
Promotion au poste de registrar (chef de clinique adjoint), Service de Neurochirurgie — CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse
Résident en neurochirurgie — Hôpital de Sion, Valais, Suisse
Début de la formation en neurochirurgie — CHUV, Lausanne, Suisse
Nazeeruddin S, Fournier JY, Simonin A. Full-endoscopic posterior cervical foraminotomy: case-series and technical nuances. World Neurosurgery: X.
Castel X, d'Astorg H, Lonjon G, Faure A, Giorgi H, Ferracci FX, Lechanoine F, Cristini J, Dhenin A, Guerin G, Lebhar J, Simonin A, Pellet N, Sabah Y, Vassal M, Szadkowski M, Dupuy M. Comparison of saline consumption between microdiscectomy, uniportal, and biportal endoscopic lumbar disc surgery: a multicenter observational study. Eur Spine J. 2025 Dec;34(12):5757-5764. doi: 10.1007/s00586-025-09256-3. Epub 2025 Aug 18. PMID: 40820108.
Al Barajraji M, Barrit S, Boukind A, Telfeian AE, Quillo-Olvera J, Afathi M, Hassel F, Derman PB, Challali M, Simonin A, Devalckeneer A, Tominaga R, Le Huec JC, Santander XA, Motov S, Assaker R, Remacle T; Neurocore-SENSED Research Group. Spine endoscopic surgery establishment for disc disease (Neurocore-SENSED): an open and decentralized consensus.
Soubach, Fournier, Simonin. C7–T1 full-endoscopic posterior foraminotomy and sequestrectomy using navigation. Neurospine. 2024.
Kiss-Bodolay D, Papadimitriou K, Simonin A, Huscher K, Fournier JY. Traumatic brain injury in alpine winter sports: comparison of two case series from a Swiss trauma center 30 years apart. J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg. 2023.
Simonin A, Papadimitriou K, Fournier JY. [Spinal injury related to alpine winter sports]. Rev Med Suisse. 2023.
Simonin A, Troxler S, Fournier JY. Reducing the learning curve of interlaminar full-endoscopic discectomy: mushroom model-simulation training. Eur Spine J. 2023.
Papadimitriou K, Kiss-Bodolay D, Hedjoudje A, Millan DS, Simonin A, Fournier JY, Huscher K. Late metachronous cerebral metastasis of pancreatic adenocarcinoma of the tail of the pancreas: a case report. J Med Case Rep. 2022.
Simonin A, Lind CRP. Surgical management of symptomatic cavum septum pellucidum cysts: systematic review of the literature. Neurosurg Rev. 2021.
Simonin A, Philippe J, Fournier JY. Full-endoscopic resection of a recurrent posterior longitudinal ligament cyst: technical note. World Neurosurg. 2021.
Bizilis JC, Simonin A, Lind CR. Delayed oculomotor nerve palsy associated with a ruptured anterior communicating aneurysm: case report. J Clin Neurosci. 2021.
O'Rawe M, Chandran AS, Joshi S, Simonin A, Dyke JM, Lee S. A case of subependymal giant cell astrocytoma without tuberous sclerosis complex and review of the literature. Childs Nerv Syst. 2021.
Simonin A, Bangash O, Henley D, Bala A. Endonasal endoscopic resection of suprasellar craniopharyngioma: a retrospective single-center case series. J Clin Neurosci. 2020.
Bangash O, Simonin A, Tsimiklis C, Ramakonar H, Honeybul S. Prophylactic levetiracetam-induced pancytopenia with traumatic extra-dural hematoma: case report. J Clin Neurosci. 2020.
Simonin A, Bangash O, Chandran AS, Uvelius E, Lind C. Endoscopic fenestration of cavum septum pellucidum cysts to the third ventricle: technical note. Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2020.
Passaplan C, Simonin A, Gautier E. Posterior wall acetabular fracture in a 13-year-old boy treated by open reduction and mini-plate internal fixation: long-term follow-up of 17 years. Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2020.
Giammattei L, Starnoni D, Maduri R, Bernini A, Abed-Maillard S, Rocca A, Cossu G, Simonin A, Eckert P, Bloch J, Levivier M, Oddo M, Messerer M, Daniel RT. Implementation of cisternostomy as adjuvant to decompressive craniectomy for the management of severe brain trauma. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2020.
Passaplan C, Simonin A, Maestretti G, Gautier E. Management of instability following pyogenic sacroiliitis: technical case report. Case Rep Orthop. 2020 Feb 29;2020.
Tompkins A, Chandran A, Lind C, Simonin A. Sudden onset of paraparesis caused by a hemorrhagic thoracic synovial cyst. World Neurosurgery. 2019.
Simonin A, et al. Correlation of papilledema and intracranial hypertension in Crouzon syndrome: case report and review of the literature. Pediatric Neurosurgery. 2019.
Simonin A, et al. Multimodal regional brain monitoring of tissue ischemia in severe cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. Neurocritical Care. 2019.
Simonin A, et al. Degenerative disc disease mimicking spondylodiscitis with bilateral psoas abscesses. World Neurosurgery. 2018.
Simonin A, et al. Pott's puffy tumor presenting as a frontal swelling under a Swiss army helmet. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 2018.
Simonin A, et al. Giant extra-axial cavernous angioma of the falx: case report. Neurosurgery. 2018 Mar.
Simonin A, et al. External ventricular drainage in acute cerebral venous thrombosis with bilateral thalamic infarcts. Journal of Pediatric Neurology. 2017.
Simonin A, et al. Three-dimensional printing of a sinus pericranii model: technical note. Childs Nerv Syst. 2017.
Tzovara A, Simonin A, Oddo M, Rossetti AO, De Lucia M. Reply: neural detection of complex sound sequences or of statistical regularities in the absence of consciousness? Brain. 2015.
Simonin A, et al. Progressive quadriparesis due to anterior odontoid screw upward migration in rheumatoid arthritis. The Spine Journal. 2015.
Simonin A, Levivier M, Bloch J, Messerer M. Cranial nerve palsies after shunting of an isolated fourth ventricle. BMJ Case Rep. 2015 Sep 9.
Tzovara A, Simonin A, Oddo M, Rossetti AO, De Lucia M. Neural detection of complex sound sequences in the absence of consciousness. Brain. 2015 May;138(Pt 5):1160-6. doi: 10.1093/brain/awv041. Epub 2015 Mar 3.
Bourquin NM, Simonin A, Clarke S. Repetition-induced plasticity of motor representations of action sounds. Brain Topogr. 2013 Jan;26(1):152-6.
Cossy N, Tzovara A, Simonin A, Rossetti AO, De Lucia M. Robust discrimination between EEG responses to categories of environmental sounds in early coma. Front Psychol. 2014 Feb 25;5:155.
Simonin A, Levivier M, Nistor S, Diserens K. Kernohan's notch and misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness. BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Feb 17;2014.
Simonin A, Gonzalez M, Levivier M, Duff J. Letter to the editor: dural reconstruction with a vascularised pleural flap following en bloc resection of a thoracic epithelioid sarcoma: technical note. Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2014 Mar 25.
Co-instructeur pour des cours d'endoscopie spinale
Diplôme de formation post-graduée en chirurgie spinale
European Fellow of Neurosurgery (FEBNS)
Obtention du titre FMH de spécialiste en neurochirurgie
Diplôme MD, CHUV, Lausanne
Advanced Trauma Life Support
Diplôme fédéral de médecine ; début de thèse : « Predicting the outcome of post-anoxic comatose patients based on single-trial EEG analysis », CIBM, CHUV, Lausanne
5ᵉ année de médecine, CHUV, Lausanne ; Master : « Neuronal plasticity in human hearing » (sous la supervision de la Prof. Stephanie Clarke)