Zan Mitrev's Team

Blagoj Shuntov MD

Specialist in neurosurgery

blagoj.shuntov@zmc.mk

2014 – 2020

Specialization in neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, “St. Cyril and Methodius” University, Skopje

2025

Neurosurgery specialist at Zan Mitrev Clinic, Skopje

– current

Neurosurgery specialist at PHU University Clinic, Skopje

2023

Education in the area of brain mapping, intraoperative neuromonitoring, cortical and subcortical brain stimulation, surgical resection of brain tumors in an awake patient.
Dissection in cadaveric laboratory
BrainLab MRI tractography course.
University of Barcelona, Bellvitge Hospital, University clinic for neurosurgery, Barcelona.

2022

Professional training through work in cadaveric laboratory. Anterior and posterior access to cervical spine, techniques of cervical spinal instrumentation.
Organized by the Turkish Neurosurgical Society, MES and WFNS spine committee.

2021

European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS) training course, spine and pediatric neurosurgery. Valencia, Spain,

2019

European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS) training course, Functional neurosurgery and head injury. Brno, Czech Republic

2018

European Association of Neurological Surgery (EANS) training course, Tumor. Dubrovnik, Croatia

2017

Continuous medical education and work in cadaveric laboratory
Treatment of medulloblastomas in pediatric population – case report. Work in cadaveric laboratory. OMI Salzburg Medical Seminars (Salzburg – Weill Cornell Neurosurgery meeting), Austria

2015

One-month professional training – Surgery of the base of the skull, endoscopic transnasal transsphenoidal surgery. Gamma knife radiosurgery, application and work with Medtronic Stealth system for neuronavigation, intraoperative neuromonitoring – Gazi Hospital, Medical faculty, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey

2013

Passed Slovenian language proficiency exam (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana. Center for Slovenian as a foreign language – 21.09.2013).

 2012

– Passed the nostrification exam in the Republic of Slovenia and nostrification of the diploma by the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia.

– Passed course in basic and advanced heart/lung resuscitation (license issued by UKC Ljubljana, Anesthesiology and Reanimation Department).

– Active participation in many national and international seminars and symposiums in the area of neurosurgery.

 

 

– Laureate of the 2021 “13th November” award of the City of Skopje. Group of researchers – contribution in the introduction of a new method – implantation of a vagus nerve stimulator in the Republic of North Macedonia.

– Laureate of the 2022 “6th November” award of the City of Valandovo for his contribution to medicine.

 

– Author and co-author of several professional papers and participation in international conferences in the field of neurosurgery.
-Co-author of chapters of two textbooks

– Rendevski V, Chaparoski A, Mirchevski V, Jovkovski S, Pangovski I, Filipche V, Gavrilovska D. A, Elezi F, Kamiloski T, Baneva N, Nikodijevic D, Cvetkovska D, Novotni G, Aleksovski V, Lazarev M, Zahariev V, Micunovic M, Bajrami G, Zupanovski A, Shuntov B, Rendevska M. A, Stomnaroska D. O. Postoperative evaluation of the degree for relapse at the patients with chronic subdural haemathoma In: Professional meeting of the Association of Surgeons of Macedonia, Shtip, 2015, p. 16-17.

– Chaparoski A, Filipce V, Gavrilovska A, Kostov M, Rendevski V, Elezi F, Shuntov B. Surgical treatment of single level degenerative cervical disc disease treated with ACDFP. In: 16th European Congress of Neurosurgery – EANS 2016, Athens, Greece;

– Caparoski A, Rendevski V, Filipce V, Elezi F, Kostov M, Gavrilovska A, Shuntov B. Surgical treatment of single level disc disease treated with ACDFP. Spine surgery in XXI century-current concept, controversies, perspectives. October 2018, Nis, Serbia

– Chaparoski A, Filipce V, Rendevski V, Mircevski V, Shuntov B, Mircevski M.M. Surgical treatment of spinal dysraphism. A 25 years single centre experience. WFNS 2019 International meeting, Belgrade, Serbia, 2019.

– Rendevski V, Chaparoski A, Mircevski V, Filipce V,Ilievski B, Shuntov B. Тrends and innovations in the surgical treatment of glial tumors. 36th expert meeting of the Association of pathologists of Macedonia and association of neurosurgeons of Macedonia. April, 2019, Skopje, Macedonia;

– Chaparoski A, Shuntov B, Rendevski V, Mirchevski V, Filipce V, Gavrilovska A, Kostov M, Zhupanoski A, Shumkovski R, Elezi F, Kamilovski T, Mirchevski M.M, Kocevski I, Gjorgievska A, Jolevska K, Veljanovski H. Clinical experience in operative treatmrnt of degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis without instability. EANS, Dablin, Ireland, 2019

– Rendevski V, Aleksovski B, Chaparoski A, Filipce V, Shuntov  B, Stojanov D, Mihajlovska Rendevska A, Aleksovski V, Gjorgoski I. The impact of TNF-α in prognostication of poor neurological outcome in patients after intracerebral haemorrhage. 33rd Annual Congress of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 4th Congress of SeENS SouthEast Europe Neurosurgical Society & 13th Annual Neurosurgery Nurses Meeting. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019;

– Shuntov B, Chaparoski A, Filipce V, Rendevski V, Mircevski V, Sumkovski R, Kostov M, Gavrilovska A, Zupanoski A, Elezi F, Kamiloski T, Kocevski I, Gjorgievska A, Mircevski M.M, Asani A, Veljanovski H, Jolevska K, Cokleska N. Case report of a long term survival in a patient with MGMT METH/IDH-1 mutation anaplastic oligodendroglioma WHO GR III. 33rd Annual Congress of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 4th Congress of SeENS SouthEast Europe Neurosurgical Society & 13th Annual Neurosurgery Nurses Meeting. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019;

– Chaparoski A, Filipche V, Rendevski V, Mirchevski V, Elezi F, Shuntov B, Mirchevski M.M. Evaluating clinical outcome in treatment of posterior fossa pilocytic astrocytomas in pediatric population. 33rd Annual Congress of the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society, 4th Congress of SeENS SouthEast Europe

– Rendevski V, Aleksovski B, Caparoski A, Filipce V, Shuntov B, Stojanov D, Mihajlovska Rendevska A, Aleksovski V, Gjorgoski I. The role of TNF-α-based models in prognostication of the outcomes after ICH: a pilot study. SNSS 5th Annual meeting 2019. Neurovascular supersessions: Exo? Endo? Hybrid? Quo vadis?, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2019; p. 117

– Lazareska M, Janevski P, Kostov M, Caparovski A, Mircevski V, Bushinovska J, Rendevski V, Dodevski A, Shuntov B, Asani E. Challenges in endovascular treatment of wide neck aneurysms. SNSS 5th Annual meeting 2019. Neurovascular supersessions: Exo? Endo? Hybrid? Quo vadis?, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2019; p. 132

– Chaparoski A, Filipce V, Rendevski V, Lazareska M, Shuntov B. Management and evaluation of clinical outcome in patients with middle cerebral artery aneurysms treated with surgical clipping versus endovascular coiling. SNSS 5th Annual meeting 2019. Neurovascular supersessions: Exo? Endo? Hybrid? Quo vadis?, Kragujevac, Serbia, 2019; p. 218

– Rendevski V, Zupanoski A, Shuntov B, Simonovska R, Ackovska S. Нозокомијални инфекции во нLS

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