Best Deep Brain Stimulation Surgeons at University Hospital Rechts der Isar

PD Dr. Benjamin Knier

Neurologist

Munich, Germany

26+ years of experience

Senior Consultant

PD Dr. Benjamin Knier is a neurologist with 22+ years of experience.
His main focus is treating stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, cluster headaches, and migraine.
He studied human medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Dr. Knier did a doctorate from University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen with experimental work on high blood pressure and associated end-organ damage.
He did speiclity training from Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich under Prof. Dr. Hemmer.
He won the Newcomer of the year award at the Technical University of Munich and a Doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation DFG.
He also got 12 months research grant awarded by the Commission for Clinical Research (KKF).

PD Dr. Benjamin Knier is a neurologist with 22+ years of experience.
His main focus is treating stroke, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, cluster headaches, and migraine.
He studied human medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Dr. Knier did a doctorate from University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen with experimental work on high blood pressure and associated end-organ damage.
He did speiclity training from Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich under Prof. Dr. Hemmer.
He won the Newcomer of the year award at the Technical University of Munich and a Doctoral scholarship from the German Research Foundation DFG.
He also got 12 months research grant awarded by the Commission for Clinical Research (KKF).

Neurologist

Munich, Germany

35+ years of experience

Head of Department

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hemmer is a Neurologist based in Heidelberg with over 37+ years of experience.
He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the German MS Society, Scientific Board Member of the German Multiple Sclerosis competence networks, Co-Speaker (2009-2012), Speaker (2012- 2016), Secretary (Since 2016), and Member of the Executive Committee of the European congress for the treatment and research in multiple sclerosis (Treasurer (2012 - 2016), Vice President (Since 2016).\
He also acts as an Advisory Board Member of the Archives of Neurology, Experimental Neurology, Multiple sclerosis Journal.
After studying human medicine, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1991 and started working at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, in 1995 with a German Research Foundation (DFG) grant.
He obtained his specialist medical training at the university hospitals in Freiburg and Marburg and worked as a senior physician in Marburg and as Deputy Clinic Director in Düsseldorf.
His work focuses on research into B-cells and T-cells in inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, especially multiple sclerosis (MS).
She is the author of more than 50 research papers and reviews publications both nationally and internationally.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hemmer is a Neurologist based in Heidelberg with over 37+ years of experience.
He is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the German MS Society, Scientific Board Member of the German Multiple Sclerosis competence networks, Co-Speaker (2009-2012), Speaker (2012- 2016), Secretary (Since 2016), and Member of the Executive Committee of the European congress for the treatment and research in multiple sclerosis (Treasurer (2012 - 2016), Vice President (Since 2016).\
He also acts as an Advisory Board Member of the Archives of Neurology, Experimental Neurology, Multiple sclerosis Journal.
After studying human medicine, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1991 and started working at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, USA, in 1995 with a German Research Foundation (DFG) grant.
He obtained his specialist medical training at the university hospitals in Freiburg and Marburg and worked as a senior physician in Marburg and as Deputy Clinic Director in Düsseldorf.
His work focuses on research into B-cells and T-cells in inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system, especially multiple sclerosis (MS).
She is the author of more than 50 research papers and reviews publications both nationally and internationally.

Neurosurgeon

Munich, Germany

35+ years of experience

Head of Department

4.4 (13 Ratings)

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer is a Munich-based Neurosurgeon with over 31+ years of experience.
He is the President of the German Society for Spine Surgery (2019); Chairperson of Education and Fellowship Committee, Eurospine (2015-2019), Chairperson of Spine Section, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2010-2019), and Former President of International Group for Advancement in Spinal Science (2014-2018) and German Academy of Neurosurgery (2015).
He studied medicine at the Universities of Padua/Italy and Erlangen-Nürnberg and also trained abroad at Northwestern University, Chicago, and at the State University of New York, Brooklyn.
Later, he completed his medical studies and earned his Ph.D. at the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1989.
He has also trained as a neurosurgeon in Tübingen, Duisburg, and Bonn and spent time abroad in Zurich/Switzerland and Phoenix AZ/USA.
Dr. Meyer has exceptional experience in operating skull base tumors, spinal cord tumors, Pituitary (endoscopic technique), Cerebral vascular malformation (aneurysm, AVM), Complex spine (tumor, degeneration, anomaly, trauma), pediatric neurosurgery, etc.
He has also penned and co-authored books and articles in national and state journals.

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Meyer is a Munich-based Neurosurgeon with over 31+ years of experience.
He is the President of the German Society for Spine Surgery (2019); Chairperson of Education and Fellowship Committee, Eurospine (2015-2019), Chairperson of Spine Section, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (2010-2019), and Former President of International Group for Advancement in Spinal Science (2014-2018) and German Academy of Neurosurgery (2015).
He studied medicine at the Universities of Padua/Italy and Erlangen-Nürnberg and also trained abroad at Northwestern University, Chicago, and at the State University of New York, Brooklyn.
Later, he completed his medical studies and earned his Ph.D. at the Institute for Human Genetics at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1989.
He has also trained as a neurosurgeon in Tübingen, Duisburg, and Bonn and spent time abroad in Zurich/Switzerland and Phoenix AZ/USA.
Dr. Meyer has exceptional experience in operating skull base tumors, spinal cord tumors, Pituitary (endoscopic technique), Cerebral vascular malformation (aneurysm, AVM), Complex spine (tumor, degeneration, anomaly, trauma), pediatric neurosurgery, etc.
He has also penned and co-authored books and articles in national and state journals.

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