Prof. Dr. Jürg Kesselring

Chefarzt Neurologie
Rehabilitationszentrum
7317 Valens

Telefon +81 303 14 08
Telefax +81 303 14 10
e-mail: kesselring.klival@spin.ch

Curriculum vitae

- born 18.10.1951 in St. Gallen, Switzerland

- Primary school and Gymnasium Typus A in St. Gallen and Maturity Diploma 1970 

- Studies in medicine 1970/1977 in Bern with traineeships in St. Gallen, Lübeck, Banbury, Oxford and Berlin, Final exam 1977 and promotion (Doctorate) 1981 in Bern

- Special training in neurology and neurosurgery: 1977/1979 Neurosurgical Clinic Canton Hospital St. Gallen, (Head: Prof. Dr. F. Scharfetter), 1980 Neurologcal University Clinic Bern (Director: Prof. Dr. M. Mumenthaler), 1981 Head of Section of Neuro-rehabilitation at Bernese Clinic Bellevue in Montana (Head: Dr. F. Mühlberger), 1982 Medical Clinic A Canton Hospital St. Gallen (Head: Dr. T. Wegmann) 

- 1983, 1987/8, 1993 and 1998 Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, England (Professor A.N. Davison, W.I. McDonald). 

- 1983/86 Senior Registrar (Oberarzt) University Clinic of Neurology, Inselspital Bern (Prof. M. Mumenthaler)

- Board Certification Neurology (Spezialarzt FMH Neurologie)

- Since April 1988 Head of the Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Rehabilitation Centre Valens, Switzerland 

- Since April 1990 Privatdozent (Lecturer), since 1996 Professor of Clinical Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, University of Bern

- Since 1998 Lectures in Clinical Neuroscience and Introductory Course Neuroscience at the Center of Neuroscience, University and ETH Zürich, since 2001 chair of neurorehabilitation, San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy

AWARDS

1999 Golden Needle of Honour for International Achievements. German Multiple Sclerosis Society

2005 ECTRIMS/ACTRIMS lecture

Honorary Lifetime Member of the Board of Directors Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) 2007

46th Aeneas Silvius Lecture University Basel 2009

AFFILIATIONS

- Member of the Assembly of the International Committee of the Red Cross

- President of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society (Vicepresident 1991 – 2005); 1985 - 2001 President (1982/1985 Secretary) of the Medical Advisory Board 

- Chairman of the International Medical and Scientific Board of Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF) and of the Resarch Committee on Demyelination of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), Chairman of the WHO Working Group on Multiple Sclerosis

- President of the European Committee on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) 1990/91 and 1995 –1999

- President of the group of experts of the National Research Programme NFP 38 “Diseases of the Nervous System“ (-2001)

- Founding Member and Vicepresident of the Swiss Society for Neurorehabilitation - 2002

- Honorary Senior Research Fellow: Institute of Neurology
The National Hospital, Queen Square, London (1983, 1987/8, 1993, 1998)

140 Original publications and Editor or Co-Autor of 15 books, mainly related to Multiple Sclerosis, Neurorehabilitation, Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Ad hoc Reviews for Acta Neurologica Scandinavica; Brain; European Neurology; European Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, Multiple Sclerosis, Schweizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Swiss Medical Forum

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