Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Hufnagel

Andreas Hufnagel studied medicine at the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, worked as a junior researcher at the Neurosurgical and Neurological Clinics of the same university, as well as at the Clinic for Epileptology and the Clinic for Psychiatry at the University of Bonn. He had been promoted in 1992 and was admitted to teaching at the higher education Institutions. From 1990 to 1996, he was a senior physician at the Epileptological and Neurological Clinics of the University of Bonn, and from 1994 to 1998 he participated in the creation of the Center for Epileptological Surgery at the University Neurosurgical Clinic in Bern as an official medical consultant. He received an additional specialization in special neurological resuscitation, and in 2004 in special pain therapy. From 1996 to 2006 he held the position of leading senior doctor and permanent deputy director of the Neurological Clinic of the University of Essen.

In 2006, he founded the private neurological clinic "Neuro-consil" in Dusseldorf, which he heads to the present. The clinic spectrum includes the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of neurological diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, herniated discs and narrowing of the spinal canal, boreliasis, cognitive dysfunctions, inflammatory diseases of the brain and spinal cord and nervous system, polyneuropathy, headaches, neuromuscular diseases, chronic pain syndromes, etc.
Prof. A. Hufnagel is the author and co-author of about 100 scientific publications, including textbooks on neurology. He has received numerous professional awards and prizes, including the Prize of the International Federation of Societies for Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (1990), the Alfred Hauptmann Prize of the German Branch of the International League Against Epilepsy (1990), the Heinrich Pette Prize of the German Neurological Association.

Education

• 1977 – 1984 Human medicine Justus Liebig University of Giessen
• 1983 Practical year (fellow, German Academic Exchange Service) Wellington, New Zealand

Professional Experience

• 1984 Approbation
• 1984 ECFMG Certificate(U.S. Educational Commission For Foreign Medical Graduates)
• 1984 - 1985 Research assistan Neurosurgery Department, University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg
• 1985 - 1988 Research assistant Neurology Department, University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg
• 1987 Obtaining a doctorate in human medicine
• 1988 – 1989 Research assistant Department of Epileptology, Bonn University Hospital
• 1990 Research assistant Psychiatry Department, Bonn University Hospital
• 1990 Official approval as a specialist in neurology
• 1992 Habilitation
• 1990-1996 Senior physician Epileptology and Neurology Department, Bonn University Hospital
• 1996 Venia Legendi, Essen University
• 1997 Professor by special appointment Essen University
• 1994-1998 Medical consultant Epilepsy Surgery Center, Department for Neurosurgery, Bern University Hospital
• 1999 Additional qualification in neurointensive care
• 2002 Associate Professor, neurology University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
• 2004 Additional qualification in special pain therapy
• 1996-2006 Leading senior physician and permanent deputy director Neurology Department, Essen University Hospital
• Since 2000 Founder and managing director Neuro-Consil GmbH Neurology Clinic, Dusseldorf

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