Date of birth

December 6th 1968 in Rosenheim, Germany

Nationalities

German, Swiss

Foreign languages

English, French, Italian 

Current Position

Director of the division of neurology,  Neuchatel Hospital Network

Medical School 

1987-1989 University of Regensburg, Germany

1989-1994 Technische Universität München, Germany

1990-1991 Foreign student at the University of Aberdeen, UK

MD Thesis

June 1996  ″Cytokine pattern and Cytotoxicity of human MBP-specific T-cell lines″ (summa cum laude) with Professor Reinhard Hohlfeld, Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany

Part of the thesis was done at the Institute of Biochemistry (Professor Jürg Tschopp and PD Dr. Dieter Jenne), Lausanne, Switzerland 

Habilitation

Novembre 2006  „ New Insights concerning pathogenesis and treatment of immune mediated polyneuropathies“

Neurology Training

October 1994 – July 2001 Department of Neurology, Kantonsspital Basel (Professor AJ Steck)

July 2001 – September 2001 Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Basel (Professor J Schifferli)

March 2004 – February 2010 consultant Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel (Prof AJ Steck and Prof L Kappos)

Certificates

November 2002 Board Certificate for Neurology of the Swiss FMH 

December 2002 Certificate for Electroneuromyography and Electroencephalography (Swiss Society for Clinical Neurophysiology)

Research Activities

July - September 1994 research on ″Isoforms of human L-MAG and S-MAG“, laboratory of neuroimmunology, Basel (Professor AJ Steck)

October 1994 - September 1996 Clinical research assistant for multiple sclerosis with participation as coinvestigator in the PRISMS (Prevention of Relapses and Disability by Interferon beta-1a Subcutaneously in Multiple Sclerosis) study and in the Study Group on Interferon Beta-1B in Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis (Professor L Kappos)

January 1998 – July 1998 research on ″Metalloproteinases in inflammatory peripheral neuropathy“, laboratory of neurobiology, Paris (Professor G Said)

October 2002 - March 2004 Visiting Fellow at the Department of Neurology (Professor Norman Latov and Professor Flint Beal), Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, USA. Research project on ″Gene Expression Profiling in Human Sural Nerve Biopsies“.

January 2008: Visiting Fellow, Instituto Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy research project on skin biopsies

Scholarships 

1988-1994 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1990-1991 German Academic Exchange Service

1998 European Neurological Society Stipend

2002 Scholarship of the Swiss

Nationalfonds (SNF)

Professional Memberships

Swiss Neurological Society

Swiss Society of Clinical Electrophysiology

European Neurological Society

American Neurological Society

Swiss Headache Society

Positions in professional organizations

President of the commission for the neurology board examination (Swiss Neurological Society)

President of the stroke commission of the Swiss Federation of Clinical Neurosciences (SFCNS)

Member of the committee of the Swiss Federation of Clinical Neurosciences (SFCNS)

Member of the committee of the Swiss Stroke Society  (SSS)

Member of the certification committee for stroke units and stroke center of the SFCNS

Member of the committee of the Swiss Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2013-2019)