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) |