Curriculum vitae: PD Dr. med. Georg Kägi
Personal Information
Contact address:
Department of Neurology, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, Rorschacherstrasse 95, 9007 St.Gallen Tel: +41/71/494 3594, e-mail: georg.kaegi@kssg.ch
Biographical Data:
Nationality: Swiss
Date of birth: July 4, 1970
Marital status: married, 3 children
Languages: German, English, French: fluently
Spanish (basic knowledge)
ORCID-ID 0000-0001-7749-8060
Postgraduate Curriculum:
1997-1998 (6mth) Doctoral thesis, Kantonsspital St.Gallen
1998-1999 Resident in Surgery, General Hospital Zurich
1999-2001 Resident in Internal Medicine, General Hospital Frauenfeld 2002-3/2005 Resident in Neurology, Kantonsspital St.Gallen
4/2005-3/2006 Senior Resident in Neurology, Kantonsspital St.Gallen
4/2006-7/2006 Attending physician (Oberarzt), Kantonsspital St.Gallen
8/2006-8/2008 Clinical research fellow in Movement disorders at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London
(research fellow to Prof. Quinn and Prof. Bhatia)
9/2008-5/2013 Attending physician, Kantonsspital St.Gallen
since 6/2013 Senior physician (Leitender Arzt) Kantonsspital St.Gallen Head of Stroke Center and Co-Chair
of Movement Disorders Center Kantonsspital St.Gallen
10/2018 Venia docendi” (Privatdozent) in Neurology, University Berne
Institutional responsibilities
since 6/2013 Head of Stroke Center and Co-Chair of Movement Disorders Center Kantonsspital St.Gallen
Approved research projects
Fonds Year Project title Total sum
Main applicant (M), Co
Applicant (C)
Peer
reviewed
Medizinisches
Forschungszentrum MFZ
2010 Pilot study on the effect of escitalopram on cortical plasticity and glutamate transmission in healthy subjects
44‘000.- M yes
Parkinson Schweiz 2012- 2013
Parkinson Schweiz 2013- 2015
The role of the SMA in the pathophysiology of freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study Structural brain changes and dysphagia in Parkinson’s disease
117‘000.- M yes 110’000.- M yes
Swiss Heart Foundation 2013 Clinical and MRI based predictors of prolonged dysphagia in ischemic stroke
29‘000.- M yes
Swiss Heart Foundation 2015- 2016
Predictive swallowing score (PRESS) – Validation of a prognostic score of impaired oral intake after ischemic stroke
160‘000.- M yes
Deutschschweizer
Logopädinnen und Logopädenverband
2015- 2016
Predictive swallowing score (PRESS) – Validation of a prognostic score of impaired oral intake after ischemic stroke
15’000.- M yes
Forschungsfonds KSSG 2015- 2016
Predictive swallowing score (PRESS) – Validation of a prognostic score of impaired oral intake after ischemic stroke
50‘000.- C yes
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds
2016- 2019
Effects of serotonergic neuromodulation on behavioural recovery and motor network plasticity after cortical ischemic stroke: a
429‘000.- C yes
longitudinal, placebo-controlled study
Forschungsfonds KSSG 2016 Effects of serotonergic neuromodulation on behavioural recovery and motor network
plasticity after cortical ischemic stroke: a
longitudinal, placebo-controlled study
Parkinson Schweiz 2017 Multi-center study for the Validation of a new Pain Questionnaire in patients with
Parkinson’s disease
33’000.- M yes 50’000.- C yes
Deutschschweizer
Logopädinnen und Logopädenverband
2019 Capsaicin for post-stroke dysphagia (CADYS)
20’000.- M yes
Swiss Heart Foundation 2019 Capsaicin for post-stroke dysphagia (CADYS)
Supervision of junior researchers
1 doctoral thesis: University of Berne, 2014 (Marian Galovic) 2 master thesis: University Berne (Benjamin Bircher, David Hemmi 1 current doctoral thesis: University Berne (Elena Ardila) 1 current applicant for venia docendi (Florian Brugger, Zurich)
Teaching activities
Clinical skills training University Berne and University of Zurich
92’000.- M yes
Organisation, chair and speaker of the -Neurosonology Academy 2014-2020
Organisation of the movement disorders Videosessions 2x per year (Berne)
Multiple teaching activities within the department of neurology KSSG
Memberships
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Swiss Parkinson Association
Advisory board member of the Swiss Parkinson’s disease association and the Swiss Dystonia society Full member and Vice President of the Swiss Stroke Society
Member of the certification commission for stroke units / stroke centers
Full member and secretary of the Swiss Movement Disorders Society
Full member of the European Stroke Society
Member of the Committee “Schweizerische Gesellschaft für klinische Neurophysiologie” (SGKN) Full member of the Movement disorders society
Member of the Committee of the Swiss Parkinson Association
Reviewing activities
Journals (Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, European Neurology, Journal of Aging Research, Swiss Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, Frontiers Neurology, Dysphagia, Plos One).
Swiss Parkinson’s disease Association.
Organisation of conferences
17th and 23rd annual meeting of the Swiss Stroke Society in St.Gallen and Stroke Trialists’ meeting (1/2013; 1/2020)
Neurosonology Academy (SGKN) (2014- 2020)
Swiss Movement Disorders videosessions in Berne (every fourth month since 2009); organization and chair. Member of the organizing committee, World Parkinson Congress, Geneva 2013
Prizes, awards, fellowships
8/2006-8/2008 NHNN, Queen Square London, Clinical research fellow in Movement disorders (Prof. Bhatia and Prof. Quinn)
Grant from Swiss Parkinson Association (1 year) und Halley Stewart Trust (1 year)
2016 Déjérine Dubois Price: Best Abstract Basic Science (MRgFUS Subthalamotomy in Essential Tremor)
2017 Runner up Price (M.Galovic) European Academy of Neurology (Presentation of the PRESS Study)
2020 Best Paper Prize from the Swiss Neurological Society ((Brugger…..Kägi). Altered activation and connectivity of the supplementary motor cortex at motor initiation in
Parkinson’s disease patients with freezing)