Department of Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg

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University Hospital Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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Head of the Department

Prof. Dr. Cornelius Weiller

Department of Neurology

Description Curriculum vitae

Department of Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg provides care for patients with neurological and neuromuscular diseases. The department is certified as a national Stroke Center and Neurovascular Center and has a special ward dedicated to stroke patients where more than 1,500 patients are treated every year in the 14 beds that the unit is composed of. Treatment, monitoring, and prevention with the correct prophylactics are all provided in this ward which is recognized by the German Stroke Society.
The department also consists of regular wards consisting of 25 beds where 4,000 inpatients get treated annually under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Cornelius Weiller. The department of neurology at UHF has been also ranked among the reference centers for Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, meningitis, and Lyme disease. Ongoing studies by the research unit of the department are mainly concerned with diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and Huntington’s disease.

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

•   Stroke
•   Parkinson’s disease
•   Tremors
•   Dystonia
•   Huntington's disease
•   Epilepsy
•   Meningitis
•   Multiple sclerosis
•   Trigeminal neuralgia
•   Dementia
•   Migraine
•   Brain tumors

1993 Habilitation.
1987 Doctor of Medicine.
1984 American medical examination (ECFMG).
1976 - 1983 Study of Human Medicine in Gent, Erlangen and Aachen.

Professional Career

Since 2005 Professor of Neurology (C4) and Head of the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology at the University Hospital Freiburg.
1999 - 2005 Professor of Neurology (C4) and Head of the Department of Neurology, Hamburg.
1996 - 1999 Professor of Neurology (C4) and Head of the Department of Neurology, Jena.
1991 - 1996 Senior Lecturer (C2) and Senior Physician of the Department of Neurology, Essen.
1990 - 1991 Postdoc at the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Hammersmith Hospital, London (Prof. Frackowiak).
1984 - 1990 Professional training in Pathology, Psychiatry and Neurology, Erlangen (Prof. V. Becker), Bonn (Prof. G. Huber), and Aachen (Prof. K. Poeck).

Honors and Awards

Since 2005 Board of Directors, Hermann Paul Institute for Linguistics, Freiburg.
Since 2004 Scientific Advisory Board, "Brain".
Since 2004 Section Head, Faculty 1000, Neurology.
2004 - 2005 Expert Evaluation, EU.
2003 Founding Director of NeuroImage Nord.
2003 Director of the Lurija Institute, Konstanz.
Since 2002 Editorial Board "NeuroImage".
Since 2001 Co-editor of the journal "Neurologie und Rehabilitation".
2001 - 2003 German-American Frontiers of Science (GAFOS).
2000 - 2007 Professional Reviewer, German Research Foundation.
Since 1998 Advisory Board of Tom Wahlig Foundation.
Since 1995 Senior Honorary Fellow, UCL, London, UK.
1994 Hugo Spatz Prize of the German Society of Neurology.
1991 - 1993 Young Investigators Awards.
1990 Feodor Lynen Scholarship.