University Hospital Ulm


Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Albert Ludolph
Department of Neurology
The Department of neurology at the university hospital of Ulm provides research, teaching and outpatient care of neurological diseases. The acute and emergency care in the field of neurology is provided by the RKU (Rehabilitation center Ulm).
There are number of specialist consultations dedicated to topics that are of scientific interest to the clinic. The team of experienced doctors put great efforts into the research and development of new medical treatment strategies in the field of neurology.
The department of Neurology at the university hospital of Ulm focuses on the treatment of the following diseases:
- Motor neuron diseases
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Parkinson's disease
- Huntington's disease
- Alzheimer's disease
- Frontotemporal dementia)
- Epilepsy
- Neurofibromatosis
- Inflammatory diseases of the CNS
- Multiple sclerosis neurological pain
- 1979 - 1984 Resident, Neurology and Psychiatry, Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Muenster (Prof. G. Brune, Prof. R. Tölle).
- 1984 - 1985 Scholarship of the German Research Foundation, Institute of Neurotoxicology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York (Prof. P.S. Spencer, Prof. H.H. Schaumburg).
- 1985 - 1989 Staff Member of the Department of Neurology, University of Muenster (Prof. G. Brune).
- 1987 Habilitation, Faculty of Medicine, University of Muenster, C2 Professor of Neurology.
- 1990 - 1992 Research Fellow, Visiting Associate Professor, Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology, Portland (Oregon).
- 1992 Staff Member of the Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn (Prof. C.E. Elger).
- 1993 - 1996 C3 Professor of Neurology, Vice Chairman, Department of Neurology, Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. K.-M. Einhäupl).
- 1996 C4 Professor of Neurology, Head of the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Ulm.
- 2003 Chair (elected) of the Academic Neuroscience Center, University of Ulm.
- 2005 - 2009 Deputy Chair and Chair (elected), European ALS-MND-Group.
- 2008 Scientific Advisory Board of the Thierry Latran Foundation
- 2008 Chair, Scientific Council of the German Foundation for Spinal Cord Injury (DSQ).
- 2008 Chair of the Scientific Council of the German Society for Muscular Diseases.
- 2009 Scientific Advisory Board Member of the Foundation of Schilling Research Groups for Translational Neuroscience.
- 2009 Chair (elected), World Federation of Neurology, ALS Research Group.
- 2009 Reviewer for Neuroscience Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
- 2010 - 2014 Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ulm.
- 2013 Chair (elected), World Federation of Neurology, ALS Research Group.
- 2014 Delegate of the German Society of Neurology at the World Federation of Neurology.
- 2014 Chairman of the Neuroscience Society.
Prizes and Awards (recent)
- 2013 Honorary Member of the Mongolian Society of Neurology.
- 2015 Erb-Gedenkmünze of the German Society of Neurology (DGN)