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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.

Prof. Dr. med. Jan Vesper is head of the Center for Neuromodulation at the University Medical Center Düsseldorf (UKD).
His clinical as well as scientific focus is on functional neurosurgery, especially deep brain stimulation and the treatment of chronic neuropathic and nociceptive pain.

Prof. Dr. Jan-Peter Warnke is the chief physician of the neurosurgical department at the Paracelsus Clinic in Zwickau.

He is the Chairman of the board of Vigdis Thompson Foundation

Neurosurgeon (certified pain therapist of the German Society for Neurosurgery).

Head of the neurosurgical department at the Friederikenstift Hannover.

Prof. Wilhelm Eisner is professor at the University Clinic for Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck. His clinical and scientific focus is on stereotactic and functional neurosurgery.
He is on the board of the Austrian pain society.

Prof. Dr. med. Lars Timmermann is University professor and director of the Clinic for Neurology at the Marburg site of the University Clinic Gießen and Marburg. He is an expert in movement disorders and deep brain stimulation.

Ms. Barbara Steiger is a specialist in neurology with a focus on movement disorders / neurodegenerative diseases at the Paracelsus Clinic Zwickau.

Andrea Kugi ist seit über 35 Jahren Ergotherapeutin mit Leib und Seele für die Bereiche Neurologie und Ergonomie. Ihre Berufspraxis führte sie über verschiedene Stationen im Inland (Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Ost, Confraternität, Pensionsversicherungsanstalt) – und in der Schweiz (Universitätsklinik Bern, Spital Burgdorf und Thun) in die Selbstständigkeit.

Zum Thema Ergonomie hält sie Seminare und bietet individuelle Arbeitsplatzberatungen an.