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Wolfgang Grisold, President WFN
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Short Bio
Prof. Wolfgang Grisold is a specialist for neurology and psychiatry. In neurology he has a background in neuropathology and neurophysiology.
Special interests are general neurology, neurooncology, neuromuscular disease, education and patient related issues as pain, palliative care and advocacy.
He is involved education, and has been the initiator of the UEMS European board examination in neurology.
He has experience in hospital practice, research and private practice. He has participated in EU projects on paraneoplastic syndromes. The scientific focus is the effect of cancer on the peripheral nervous system, in particular in peripheral neurotoxicity and the direct effects of cancer.
In regard to neuromuscular disease, he has experience with autoimmune diseases, in particular myasthenia gravis and inflammatory neuropathies. He works in an interprofessional setting in diagnosis and treatment of mononeuropathies including imaging (ultrasound) electrophysiology and also plastic and reconstructive surgery.
He has authored and edited 20 books, and his Pubmed count is presently 265.
He is involved in several international neurological societies and has organized several international neurological congresses, among the EANO congress in 2006 in Vienna, the ICNMD 2018 in Vienna, and was involved in the organization of the World Congress of Neurology 2013, in Vienna, as the congress secretary.
He has become an elected trustee of the World federation of Neurology in 2009, and has started his term as the WFN president in 2022.
