Speakers /

Dr. Ronald Saurugg is a specialist in neurology with an additional specialty in geriatrics. His specialties are Parkinson's disease, movement disorders and dementia. He works as a senior physician at the AöKH Oberwart and as a private physician in his practice in Hartberg (Austria).

Prof. PhDr. Elisabeth Kratz MSc. ist Logopädin, Lektorin an der Donau-Universität Krems und in eigener Praxis in Wien tätig.
Sie ist spezialisiert auf Stimm- Sprech- und Sprachstörungen.

Dr. Richard Ibrahim ist Facharzt für Orthopädie für physikalische und rehabilitative Medizin. Er hat seine Praxis in München. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte ist die spezielle Therapie von chronischen Schmerzbildern (u.a.Gelenke, Wirbelsäule), sowohl konservativ als auch interventionell (Neuromodulation).

Lecturer at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna - Faculty of Psychotherapy Sciences. Work and research focus: Coping with illness through artistic-dance therapy offers for people with Parkinson's. Art therapist Master of Arts MA. Dance and movement therapist. Anthropologist Mag. Speaker / trainer for health promotion and resilience.

Works in private practice in Vienna, as well as in the health center Schloss Prugg, long-term collaboration with Parkinson Patient Association Vienna, as well as active for Caritas, Jugend am Werk, patient association groups in the field of therapeutic art therapy (dance, music and expression) with people with disabilities.

Prof. Dr. Spyros Konitsiotis is Professor of Neurology at the University of Ioannina, Greece.
Leading expert in the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease.
He was closely involved in the development of PDMonitor®.

Dr. Volker Tomantschger is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases in Hermagor, Carinthia.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christian Wöber is a specialist in neurology and psychiatry and senior physician at the University Clinic for Neurology in Vienna. There he heads the special headache department and the acute outpatient department.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Burkhard Gustorff is head of the department for anesthesia, intensive care and pain medicine at the Ottakring Clinic (formerly Wilhelminenspital) in Vienna. He has been active in pain therapy and pain research for over 20 years. The focus is on neuropathic pain, pain diagnosis using QST and invasive pain therapy. He has a lot of experience in postgraduate education and university teaching and is considered to be a mediator between the current state of research and clinical practice.

Dr. Michael Kretzschmar is the chief physician of the Center for Pain and Palliative Medicine at the SRH Waldklinikum Gera (Germany). He is professor for health services research at the SRH University of Health in Gera.

Dr. Caroline Thun-Hohenstein is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders. She heads the Parkinson's Center at the Confraternität private clinic.