Dirk Dressler

Konrad Karl Erich Bodo Wilhelm Dirk Dressler (born 19 July 1958) is a German neurologist and psychiatrist. He is Full Professor of Neurology at Hannover Medical School. His research focus is neurological movement disorders and the development and introduction of the botulinum toxin therapy.

Life[edit]

Dirk Dressler, MD, PhD, studied medicine and philosophy with a scholarship of Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation at Georg-August University, Goettingen and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Subsequently, he specialised as neurologist and psychiatrist at Georg-August University, Goettingen and Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen. He is fully board-certified neurologist and psychiatrist in Germany and the United Kingdom.

Work[edit]

After several years of postgraduate training at the National Hospital for Neurology and the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK he took over a position as consultant neurologist and associate professor of neurology at Rostock University, Rostock, Germany. 2004 he received his venia legendi with the habilitation thesis Antibody-induced Botulinum Toxin Therapy Failure: Symptoms, Evaluation, Treatment. 2008 he was appointed full professor of neurology and head of movement disorders section at the department of neurology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

His main interest covers clinical, pharmacological, neurophysiological, imaging and genetic studies of central motor control and movement disorders. His special interest is dystonia and spasticity. He is one of the pioneers of botulinum toxin therapy in Europe. He is author of numerous scientific publications on botulinum toxin therapy. He received several awards, teaches at several foreign universities and holds patents on botulinum toxin therapy.

Dressler is co-founder and co-convenor of International Congress on Treatment of Dystonia, co-founder of International Neurotoxin Association and IAB - Interdisciplinary Working Group for Movement Disorders, International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society Special Interest Group on Spasticity, of Konrad Adenauer Foundation Health Network, of Fokus Spastik/German Spasticity Forum. He is consultant to several national and international government agencies and was long-term Co-Director of We Move, Inc, New York. He is reviewer and editor of several international neurological journals. He served on the advisory boards of the German Dystonia Society, Dystonie und Du, Bundesverband Torticollis, Fundacion Dystonia, Santiago de Chile, Associacao Brasileira de Portadores de Distonias, Sao Paulo, the National Spasmodic Torticollis Association, Los Angeles, Swiss Dystonia Society, Basle and Deutsche Seniorenliga, Bonn. He is member of various international medical societies and works as consultant for various international pharmaceutical companies.

Selected Publications[edit]

Dressler published (as of 12/2019) 249 scientific articles with PubMed listing, 58 book chapters and 12 scientific monographies. Additionally, he produced more than 15 scientific films.

Selected Monographies:

Botulinum-Toxin-Therapie. Thieme, Stuttgart 1995
Botulinum Toxin Therapy. Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart, New York 2000
Antikörperinduziertes Botulinum Toxin-Therapieversagen: Symptomatik, Abklärung, Behandlung. Hoffmann-Verlag, Mainz 2005
Manual of Botulinum Toxin Therapy. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2013 (together with D. Truong, M. Hallett and C. Zachary)
Treatment of Dystonia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2018 (together with E. Altenmüller and J.K. Krauss)

Awards[edit]

University of Santiago de Chile, Chile: Honorary Professorship
Chinese Botulinum Toxin Society: Lifetime Award
Symtox - Latin American Botulinum Toxin Association: Lifetime Award
Japanese Neurotoxin Society: Keynote Lecture
Chinese Botulinum Toxin Society: Teaching Award
Tongji University Medical School, Shanghai, China: Teaching Award
Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Dermatologie und Venerologie/Swiss Group of Esthetic Dermatology and Skincare: Honorary Member

Visiting Professorships[edit]

Sao Paulo University, Brasil
Monterrey University, Mexico
Tongji University Medical School, Shanghai, China
Sechenow University, Moscow, Russia

External Links[edit]

Literature by and about Dirk Dressler in the German National Library catalogue
PubMed listing

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