University Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
Department of Neurology
Department of Neurology at University Hospital Heidelberg provides care for patients with central and peripheral nervous system diseases as well as neuromuscular disorders. The department consists of an emergency unit as well as seven state-of-the-art stations composed of 116 beds where the medical team treats over 8,000 inpatients and 23,000 outpatients annually.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Wolfgang Wick, the department is not only an internationally pioneering center in the field of neuro-oncology but also is a part of the National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg. Every year, about 4,000 patients of neurological tumors seek the neuro-oncology unit as their treatment destination. The neuro-immunology team is a member of the Research in Multiple Sclerosis and the German Cancer Research Center.
The Department of Neurology at University Hospital Heidelberg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Parkinson’s disease
- Tremors
- Dystonia
- Gait disorders
- Tick disorders
- Spastic spinal paralysis
- Polyneuropathies
- Myopathy
- Brain tumors
- Spinal cords tumors
- Chronic headache
- Myositis
- Myasthenia
- Multiple sclerosis
Education
- 06/89 - 09/90 Alternative civil service, Marienhospital Bonn.
- 10/90 - 08/93 Study of Medicine, University of Bonn.
- 09/93 - 06/94 Royal College of London, UK.
- 07/94 - 08/96 University of Bonn.
- 09/96 - 05/97 Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
- 06/97 - 11/97 University of Bonn.
- 11/97 Preliminary admission to medical practice.
- 05/98 Doctoral dissertation defense, Institute of Neuropathology (Prof. Dr. O.D. Wiestler), University of Bonn.
Professional Career
- 01/98 - 06/99 Intern, Department of Neurology, University of Tuebingen (Head: Prof. Dr. J. Dichgans).
- 07/99 - 12/01 Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, University of Tuebingen.
- 01/02 - 12/02 Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, University of Tuebingen (Head: Prof. Dr. G. Buchkremer).
- 04/03 Medical Specialist in Neurology.
- 07/03 Habilitation and Venia Legendi in Neurology.
- 08/03 - 10/08 Leader of the group of young specialists in the study of hematopoietic stem cells and glioma, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
- 08/04 - 12/06 Senior Physician, Department of Neurology.
- Since 10/2005, Coordination Committee for the Study of Brain Tumors EORTC.
- 04 - 12/06 Deputy Head of the Department of General Neurology, University Hospital Tuebingen.
- Since 01/07 and up to now, Head and Professor of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
- Head of Neurology Section, German Cancer Research Center.
- 07/07 - 06/14 Board Member of the Working Group on Neuro-Oncology of the German Cancer Society (NOA).
- Since 09/2008, Board Member of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology.
- Since 06/2009, Representative of the Group for the Study of Brain Tumors, EORTC.
- Since 03/2009, Member of the Committee of Young Professionals of the German Cancer Organization (Deutsche Krebshilfe).
- Since 01/2010, Member of the Board of Directors of the National Cancer Center (NCT).
- 01/10 - 04/14 Member of the Executive Board of the European Cancer Organization (ECCO).
- Since 06/2014, Representative of the Working Group on Neuro-Oncology of the German Cancer Society (NOA).
- Since 10/2014, Head of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
Publications
- Since 1998, Over 250 reviewed publications.
Awards and Honors
- 1991 - 1997 Fellow of the Student Foundation of the German People (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
- 1996 Research Grant from the Beringer Ingelheim Foundation.
- 1997 Best Doctoral Dissertation at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Bonn.
- 2001 Award in Neurobiology, University of Tuebingen.
- 2003 Novartis Prize for Clinical Trials.
- 2005 Sibylle-Assmus Prize for achievements in the field of neuro-oncology.
- 2006 Pette Prize of the German Society of Neurology (DGN).
- 2009 Best Lecture by the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology, Japan.
Department of Neurology
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