Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology

Werner Poewe is Professor Emeritus and Past Chair of the Dept. of Neurology,Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. Following his specialty fellowship at the Dept of Neurology and Psychiatry at Innsbruck University (1977-84), he was a British Council Research Fellow to Drs Stern and Lees at University College and Middlesex Hospital London UK and subsequently held a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology in Innsbruck. In 1990 he was appointed Full Professor of Neurology at the Virchow Hospital of the Free University of Berlin and in 1995 took over the Chair of Neurology at the Dept of Neurology in Innsbruck. He retired from the position of department director in October 2019. His further ledership roles include President of the International Movement Disorder Society (MDS) (2000-2002), President of the Austrian Neurological Society (2002-2004 ) and Austrian Parkinson’s Disease Society (President 1996 - 2009) and Chair of the MDS - European Section (2012-2013). His research interests include Clinical trials in PD, atypical parkinsonism, dystonia & other Movement disorders as well as the diagnosis, imaging and other biomarkers of PD and Movement Disorders and sleep. WP has authored and co-authored 800 articles listed in PubMed with > 80.000 citations (H-Index 141).