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Funded Studies

Werner Poewe, MD

Director at Department of Neurology, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Location: Innsbruck Austria

Dr. Poewe is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Department of Neurology at Innsbruck Medical University in Innsbruck, Austria. He held a Residency in Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, from 1977 to 1984. Then, Professor Poewe was a British Council Research Fellow at University College and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London. For three years (1986-1989), he was a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Neurology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 1990 through 1994 he served as Professor of Neurology and Acting Director of the Department of Neurology at the Virchow Hospital of the Free University of Berlin. Professor Poewe's main research interests are in the field of movement disorders with particular emphasis on the clinical pharmacology of Parkinson's disease and dystonia. He has authored and co-authored more than 550 original articles and reviews in the field of movement disorders. He served as President of the International Movement Disorder Society from 2000 through 2002, as President of the Austrian Society of Neurology from 2002 to 2004 and is the Past President of the Austrian Parkinson's Disease Society as well as the “Incoming Chair” of the Movement Disorders Society/European Section.


Associated Grants

  • Prospective Validation of Risk Markers for the Development of Parkinson’s Disease

    2010


  • Prospective Validation of Risk Markers for the Development of Parkinson’s Disease

    2007


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