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Prof. Dr. François Alesch is a university professor for stereotactic and functional neurosurgery at the Medical University of Vienna. His primary focus is on neurosurgical treatments for movement disorders and pain.

Prim. Dr. Dieter Volc heads the neurological department with the Parkinson Center at PremiQaMed Privatkliniken GmbH, Skodagasse 32 • 1080 Vienna.

Dr. Peter Themann is Head Physician at the Tharandter Wald Clinic in Hetzdorf near Dresden. The clinic is certified as a Parkinson's special clinic.

Before that, Dr. Themann was at the Max Plank Institute for Experimental Medicine in Göttingen; Focus on the pharmacology of the dopamine, serotonin and endorphin systems in the CNS.

themann@reha-hetzdorf.de

Dr. Volker Tomantschger is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases in Hermagor, Carinthia.

Lecturer at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna - Faculty of Psychotherapy Sciences. Work and research focus: Coping with illness through artistic-dance therapy offers for people with Parkinson's. Art therapist Master of Arts MA. Dance and movement therapist. Anthropologist Mag. Speaker / trainer for health promotion and resilience.

Works in private practice in Vienna, as well as in the health center Schloss Prugg, long-term collaboration with Parkinson Patient Association Vienna, as well as active for Caritas, Jugend am Werk, patient association groups in the field of therapeutic art therapy (dance, music and expression) with people with disabilities.

Prof. Dr. Gottfried Kranz is medical director at the Neurological Rehabilitation Center Rosenhügel in Vienna. His scientific focus is on the treatment of movement disorders.

Neurosurgeon (certified pain therapist of the German Society for Neurosurgery).

Head of the neurosurgical department at the Friederikenstift Hannover.

Prof. Dr. med. Lars Timmermann is University professor and director of the Clinic for Neurology at the Marburg site of the University Clinic Gießen and Marburg. He is an expert in movement disorders and deep brain stimulation.

Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Warnke is the chief physician of the neurosurgical department at the Paracelsus Clinic in Zwickau.

He is the Chairman of the board of Vigdis Thompson Foundation

Prof. Dr. med. Jan Vesper is head of the Center for Neuromodulation at the University Medical Center Düsseldorf (UKD).
His clinical as well as scientific focus is on functional neurosurgery, especially deep brain stimulation and the treatment of chronic neuropathic and nociceptive pain.

Dr. Caroline Thun-Hohenstein is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders. She heads the Parkinson's Center at the Confraternität private clinic.

Dr. Michael Kretzschmar is the chief physician of the Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine at the SRH Waldklinikum Gera (Germany). He is professor for health services research at the SRH University of Health in Gera.

Ms. Barbara Steiger is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases at the Paracelsus Clinic Zwickau.

Dr. Cristian Oehlwein is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases in Gera.

Friedrich Wilhelm Mehrhoff is the managing director of the German Parkinson Association e.V.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gustorff is head of the department for anesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine at the Ottakring Clinic (formerly Wilhelminenspital) in Vienna. He has been active in pain therapy and pain research for over 20 years. The focus is on neuropathic pain, pain diagnosis using QST and invasive pain therapy. He has a lot of experience in postgraduate education and university teaching and is considered to be a mediator between the current state of research and clinical practice.

Prof. Wilhelm Eisner is professor at the University Clinic for Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck. His clinical and scientific focus is on stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.
He is on the board of the Austrian pain society.

Dr. Reinald Brezovsky is a neurosurgeon and pain doctor. He heads the Döbling Health Center in Vienna.

Dr. Richard Ibrahim ist Facharzt für Orthopädie für physikalische und rehabilitative Medizin. Er hat seine Praxis in München. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte ist die spezielle Therapie von chronischen Schmerzbildern (u.a.Gelenke, Wirbelsäule), sowohl konservativ als auch interventionell (Neuromodulation).

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Wöber is a specialist in neurology and psychiatry and senior physician at the University Clinic for Neurology in Vienna. There he heads the special headache department and the acute outpatient department.

Prof. Dr. Spyros Konitsiotis is Professor of Neurology at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
Leading expert in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.
He was closely involved in the development of PDMonitor®.

Konstantin Slavin, MD is a neurosurgeon and professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, who specializes in functional neurosurgery. He is a past president of the American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, the secretary of the International Neuromodulation Society, and the vice president of the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery.