Steven Laureys MD PhD, is director of the Coma Science Group (http://www.comascience.org) at the Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department of the University and University Hospital of Liège, Belgium. He is Research Director at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research and board-certified in neurology and in palliative medicine. His team assesses the recovery of neurological disability and neuronal plasticity in acquired brain injury and altered states of consciousness (e.g., comatose, “vegetative”/unresponsive, minimally conscious and locked-in syndromes) confronting clinical expertise and bedside behavioral evaluation with multimodal neuroimaging (PET and MRI) and electrophysiology studies (EEG and EEG-TMS); also dealing with the ethical implications of this translational clinical research.
SPEAKERS
Anna Duszyk was graduated from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities with a major in cognitive neuroscience and from Jagiellonian University with a major in musicology. Her previous research work was done with close collaboration with Department of Biomedical Physics, University of Warsaw and was focused on electrophysiological aspects in brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and the dynamics of cognitive control processes. Currently, she is working in the Coma Science Group implementing electrophysiology and BCI expertise in the consciousness disorders evaluation and treatment field.
Honorary President of World Federation of Neurological Surgeons
Founding President of Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons
President, 13th WFNS Interim Meeting (2007)
President, 12th Asia-Australian Congress of Neurological Surgery
Founding President of Japanese Congress of Brain Tumor Surgery
President, Japan International Medical Cooperation Organization (JIMCO)
Honorary Professor, Fujita Health University
Dr Benedikt Berninger is currently a professor of Physiological Chemistry at the University Medical Center of the University Mainz. Benedikt received his doctoral degree in 1996 at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich for work on activity-dependent regulation of neurotrophin gene expression. He then joined the lab of Professor Mu-ming Poo as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California San Diego to study fast actions of neurotrophins on synapses and growth cones. After a brief stay at the Karolinska Institute, Benedikt returned to Munich and eventually obtained a position as senior lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich. In 2012 he received a call to the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz.
- Fujita Health University, Graduate school
- Fujita Health University School of medicine
- birth date: 24.05.1955 r., place: Włocławek
Education
- University Medical School in Warsaw –graduated – 1980.
- Doctor of Medical Sciences – 1988
- Habilitation – 1994
- Title of the Professor of Medicine – (president of the Republic of Poland – 2006)
Fellowships and postgraduated courses:
- British Council Fellowship – 1990
- University of Southampton Fellowship - 1990