Department of Neurology at University Hospital Muenster

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University Hospital Muenster

Münster, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Heinz Wiendl

Department of Neurology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Neurology at University Hospital Muenster provides medical care for patients with neurological and neuromuscular diseases. The department is ranked as one of the best medical institutions for Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease in Germany. The combination of qualified medical staff, the cooperation with Departments of Neurosurgery and Radiology and the cutting-edge equipment is the reason why many patients choose this department as their treatment center. With Prof. Dr. Med. Heinz Wiendl as the head of the department, about 4,000 inpatients are treated there every year, nearly 1,000 of these patients suffer from cerebral infarction.
The department consists of a day clinic, Stroke Unit, Intensive Care Unit, Epilepsy Center, Neurogenetic Laboratory, Neurosomological Laboratory, and Electrophysiological Laboratory. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. med. Sven G. Meuth, the Translational Neurology Institute enhances the research unit of the Department of Neurology at UKM and both are mainly concerned with clinical and basic research on neurological diseases.

Department of Neurology at University Hospital Muenster is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:

•   Amyloidosis
•   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
•   Encephalitis
•   Multiple sclerosis
•   Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
•   Retrobulbar neuritis
•   Neuro- AIDS
•   Myasthenia
•   Neuromuscular myopathy
•   Inflammatory polyneuropathy
•   Epilepsy
•   Memory disorders
•   Fabry disease
•   Pompe disease
•   Parkinson’s disease
•   Sleep disorders
•   Stroke
•   Dysphagia

Education

1997 Admission to medical practice.
1989 - 1996 Study of Human Medicine at the Universities of Erlangen, Basel and Duke University.

Degrees

2004 Doctoral thesis defense. Subject: "Immune regulation in muscle tissue: significance for the immune pathogenesis of inflammatory myopathies".
1996 Doctoral Degree.

Academic Positions

2013 Professor and Head of the Department of General Neurology, University Hospital Muenster, Germany.
2010 Professor and Head of the Department for the Treatment of Inflammatory Nervous System Diseases and Neuro-Oncology, University Hospital Muenster, Germany.
2005 - 2010 Professor of Neurology, Head of the Group on Clinical Researches on Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology, Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg.
2004 Leader, Junior Research Group on Neuroimmunology, Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Center in Tuebingen, Germany.
2000 - 2004 Clinical and Research Fellow of the Hertie Brain Research Institute, Department of Neurology, University of Tuebingen.
1998- 2000 German Research Foundation Scholarship, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Department of Neuroimmunology, Martinsried (Prof. Dr. med. H. Wekerle; Prof. Dr. med. R. Hohlfeld).
1997 - 1998 Research Fellow, Institute of Anatomy and Neuroanatomy II, University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
1996 - 1997 Residency Program, Department of Neurology, University Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Awards and Honors

2009 Heinrich Pett Prize of the German Society of Neurology.
2004 Sobek Award for research on multiple sclerosis (Young Scientists Award) of the German Multiple Sclerosis Association.
2003 Felix Jerusalem Prize of the German Society of Muscular Diseases.

Special Positions

2015 Editorial Board Member of the Neurotherapeutics Journal.
2015 Commission Member "Perspectives for the treatment of patients in Neurology" of the German Society of Neurology.
2014 Member of the Academy of Education and Training, Medical Association of Westphalia-Lippe.
2013 Executive Board Member and Chairman of the Neuromedicine Foundation, Muenster.
2013 Editorial Board Member of PLOS ONE.
2013 Principal Investigator of the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence (funded by the German Research Foundation and the German Council of Science and Humanities ).
2013 Dean, Responsible for Research Activities and Training of Young Scientists, Faculty of Medicine, University of Muenster.
2012 Co-Spokesperson of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center 128 "Multiple Sclerosis" (Rhein-Main, Muenster, Munich), funded by the German Research Foundation.
2012 Steering Committee Member of the Cells-in-Motion Cluster of Excellence, Muenster (funded by the German Research Foundation).
2012 Board Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, Muenster.
2011 Board Member of the German Society for Neurologists.
2009 Official Spokesman of the National German Competence Network of Multiple Sclerosis.
2010 Commission Member on Drugs of the German Medical Association.
2008, 2014 Coordinator: Therapeutic Recommendations of the German Society for Neurology (myositis, myasthenia).
2008 Review Committee Member of the Competence Cluster for Autoimmune Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
2008 Coordinator of the Task Force on Neurology.
2007, 2011 Executive Board Member of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society.
2007 Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Neuroinflammation.
2006 Editorial Board, International of the Journal of Clinical Practice.
2004 Scientific Advisory Committee on HLA-G International Conferences.
2003 Scientific Advisory Committee of the German Society for Muscular Diseases.
2002 Member of the Medical Council of the German Society for Multiple Sclerosis.
2001, 2012, 2014 Member of the Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Consensus Group (MSTCG).