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Prof Dr Dirk Fischer

Head Physician Research

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Other functions at UKBB

since 01/2008
Consultant Neurologist (Senior Physician, Head Physician), Department of Neuropaediatrics, University Children's Hospital Basel (50%)

since 10/2007
Consultant Neurologist (Senior Physician), Department of Neurology, University Hospital Basel (50%, now 10%)

04/06 – 09/07
Senior House Officer and Consultant Neurologist, Muscle and ALS Centre, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen (CH)

08/05 – 03/06
Research Associate and Senior House Officer, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bonn (D)

09/03 – 07/05
Post-doc research at the CNRS

2009
Habilitation in Neurology, Department of Neurology, Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn (D) "Muscle imaging in hereditary myopathies"

2006
Specialist in neurology (D)

2004
Certificate "Electroencephalography", German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN)

2003
Certificate "Evoked Potentials", German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN)

2002
Certificate "Electromyography", German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (DGKN)

2001
MD degree, Institute of Clinical Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin (D): "Expression of the neuroendocrine L-type calcium channel in the rat retinal pigment epithelium" (magna cum laude)

1999
Medical Diploma, Free University of Berlin (D)

1998 – 1999
Medicine, "Practical Year" Trinity College Dublin (IRL), Universidad de Buenos Aires (ARG), The National Hospital of Neurology, University College London (UK)

1996 – 1999
Medicine at the University Hospital "Benjamin Franklin" Freie Universität Berlin (D)

1995 – 1996
Medicine at the Hospital San Carlos of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (E)

1992 – 1995
Medicine at the Free University of Berlin (D)

  • Swiss Neurological Society (SNS)
  • Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
  • Swiss Society for Clinical Electrophysiology (SGKN)
  • German Society for Clinical Electrophysiology (DGKN)
  • German Society for Muscular Diseases (DGM)
  • World Muscle Society (WMS)

Grants
Association Francaise contre les Myopathies (F);
Prinses Beatrix Fonds (NL);

Journals
Brain, Neuromuscular disorders, Muscle and Nerve, Journal of Neurology, European Journal of Neurology, Journal of MRI, Swiss Medical weekly

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