Dr. Lorand Eross is the director of the Semmelweis University, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery and Neurointervention since March 1. 2024.
He was the general director of National Institute of Mental Health, Neurology and Neurosurgery in Budapest since 01.April 2021. until 29.February 2024, when the Institute were divided and the neurosurgical part became the member of the Semmelweis University and the psychiatry and addictology hospital became again an independent mental institute.
In 2010, he has founded and led the Functional Neurosurgical Department and Center of Neuromodulation until his nomination as the general director of the institute. Between 2018 and 2021 he was the Director of Research and Innovation. Beside his administrative engagements he runs the Epilepsy Surgery Program of the Institute. He finished medical school in 1990. He received his PhD degree at Semmelweis University in 2010 in epilepsy surgery. His main interest is epilepsy surgery, movement disorder surgery, neurosurgical treatment of chronic pain, spasticity and neuromodulation. He has an active reasearch group in the field of epilepsy, and neuroimaging. He developed a new intraoperative localisation method for invasive recordings in epilepsy surgery and introduced different neurostimulation techniques in Hungary. In 2018 he introduced robot assisted neurosurgery in Central-Eastern Europe. He got his habilitation at Semmelweis University in 2019. His activity includes research and development of vitro and in vivo electrophysiological and optical investigational methods. He is lecturer at the Medical Faculty of the Semmelweis University and at the Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology in Bionical Sciences. In 2023 he became the vice president of European Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. He is in the panel of the Functional Section of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies. He has been elected in 2020 to be the president of the Hungarian Neurosurgical Society.He is in the advisory board of World Institute of Pain. He is an officer in the Hungarian League Against Epilepsy.