A warm welcome to Dr Gerd Tinkhauser

A warm welcome to Dr Gerd Tinkhauser

Dr Gerd Tinkhauser

We are pleased to welcome Dr Gerd Tinkhauser to the Unit. Gerd has been awarded a prestigious European Academy of Neurology Research Training Fellowship to study in the Unit. Gerd is an Italian neurologist who has been working at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland. There, he completed a Movement Disorders Fellowship with Professor Michael Schüpbach and Professor Claudio Pollo. During this time, Gerd developed a particular interest in Deep Brain Stimulation as a therapy for conditions like Parkinson’s disease. Gerd graduated from the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Gerd joins Professor Peter Brown’s Group in the Unit from January 2016, and his research will focus on improving intra-operative functional localisation and closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation.