Specialization:
- Cognitive impairment and dementia, including diagnosis using amyloid PET imaging
- Multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology
- Neuromuscular diseases, including polyneuropathy and muscle diseases, including genetic diagnosis and muscle MRI
- Botulinum toxin outpatient clinic (spasticity, blepharospasm, facial hemispasm, dystonia, tremor, hyperhidrosis, hypersalivation, chronic pain therapy)
- Motor activity disorders in Parkinson's disease, tremor and vegetative-vascular dystonia, including clinical and nuclear medicine diagnostics, including DASCAN (brain scintigraphy), PET-CT, levodopa test, tremor analysis
- Cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke and cerebral hemorrhages, including emergency treatment
- Epilepsy
- Sleep laboratory for apnea, narcolepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome and other sleep pathologies
Achievements:
- Author of more than 800 scientific publications in international and national publications
- Hirsch Scientific Productivity Index – 39 (corresponds to the scientific activity of a world-famous scientist)
- Heads the largest neurological clinic in the North Rhine-Westphalia region
Membership in scientific societies
- German Society of Neuroscience
- German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Chairman of the working group on botulinum toxin of the German Society of Neuroscience
- Member of the Board of Directors of the IMSVISUAL consortium (International Multiple Sclerosis Imaging System)
- NEMOS Neuromyelitis Optica Study Group
- International group on quality control criteria for OCT studies OSCAR-IB
- OCT Research in Multiple Sclerosis (OCTRiMS) Group
- Study Group to Evaluate OCT as a Biomarker for Multiple Sclerosis (HTA-OCT MS)
Qualification:
- EMG Certificate from the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Certificate "Evoked Potentials" of the German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Certificate of the working group on botulinum toxin of the German Society of Neurology for treatment with botulinum toxin for all indications
- Certificate "Medical Didactics" North Rhine-Westphalia
- Certificate: Good Clinical Practice and Clinical Research Manager
Member of the editorial board of publications:
Nature Communications, Cell Reports Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Jama Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Neurology, Brain, Heliyon, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Movement Disorders, Multiple Sclerosis Journal, Journal of Neurology, European Journal of Neurology, Multiple Scerlosis and Related Disorders, BMC Neurology, BMC Neuroscience, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Neurology, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Acta Ophthalmologica, British Journal of Ophthalmology, Current Eye Research , Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia.
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