Curriculum vitae
Name:
Prof Dr. med. Bernhard J. Steinhoff
Date of birth:
18.09.1961
Place of birth:
Offenburg/Baden/Germany
High School degree:
10.06.1980
Medical degree
(legitimation to work
as a professional doctor)
13.11.1986
Medical doctor degree
after written medical thesis and
oral exams
06.09.1989
Title of the medical thesis:
Antiepileptic therapy with bromides
PhD thesis:
The neurophysiological profile of established
and new antiepileptic drugs
PhD since:
1998
Academic Position
Professor for Neurology and Clinical
Neurophysiology, University of Freiburg
Honorary Professor, College for medical
Engineering, Offenburg
Professional career:
15.05.1987 to 31.12.1989
Resident and intern at Epilepsiezentrum Kork
01.01.1990 to 31.05.1992 and 01.12.1992 to
31.12.1992
Intern Department of Neurology, University Hospital
München-Großhadern,
Head Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Brandt.
01.06.1992 to 30.11.1992
research fellow Section of Epilepsy and Clinical
Neurophysiology
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Head Hans Otto Lüders, M.D., Ph.D.
1993 – 2000 senior registrar Department of Clinical
Neurophysiology, Georg-August-University
Göttingen. Head of Section of EEG and Epilepsy
since 2000
Vice director, Epilepsy Centre Kork, Landstr. 1,
77694 Kehl-Kork, Germany
since 2002
2
Medical Director, Epilepsy Centre Kork, Landstr. 1,
77694 Kehl-Kork, Germany
Board-certified EEGer:
since 1990
Board-certified epileptologist:
since 1992
Board-certified neurologist:
since 1993
Awards:
Promotionspreis of the German Society of
Epilepsy Research 1990
1. Posterpreis der Gemeinsamen Jahrestagung
der Deutschen, Österreichischen und
Schweizerischen Sektionen der Internationalen
Liga gegen Epilepsie, Zürich, 2001
Award German Neurological Society: Top 5
lecturers
Alfred-Hauptmann Prize 2015
Memberships:
German Section of the International League against
Epilepsy
German Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
Commission on side-effects of antiepileptic drugs of
the German Section of the International League
against Epilepsy
German Society of Neurology
Society of Presurgical Diagnostics and Surgical
Epilepsy Therapy
Corresponding member of the American Epilepsy
Society
Elected positions:
Co-Chair Therapeutic Strategy Commission ILAE
Past-President of the Society of Presurgical
Diagnostics and Surgical Epilepsy Therapy
Past-President of the German Section of the
International League against Epilepsy
Board member German Society of neurology
Clinical Studies
Multiple antiepileptic drug studies mostly as
Principal Investigator
Editor
Z Epileptologie
Editorial Board:
Epilepsy Research, Epileptic Disorders
3
Journal Reviewer for:
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
Brain
Clinical Neurophysiology
Epilepsia
Epilepsy and Behaviour
Epilepsie-Blätter / Z Epileptol
Epilepsy Research
European Journal of Neurology
European Journal of Pediatric Neurology
Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics
Nervenarzt
Lancet Neurology
Neuroreport
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift
Journal of Neurology
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare
Seizure
Reviewer for:
Wellcome Trust
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Publications:
222 original articles in peer reviewed journals
163 MedlineTM-listed publications
110 books or book articles
968 presentations or quotable abstracts
Kork, 19SEP2016