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 botulinum toxin therapy.
Life
Dirk Dressler, MD, PhD, studied medicine and philosophy with a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation at Georg-August University, Göttingen and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Subsequently, he specialized as a neurologist and psychiatrist at Georg-August University, Göttingen and Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen. He is fully board-certified as a neurologist and psychiatrist in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Work
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. In 2004, he received his venia legendi with the habilitation thesis Antibody-induced Botulinum Toxin Therapy Failure: Symptoms, Evaluation, Treatment. In 2008, he was appointed full professor of neurology and head of the 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 the author of numerous scientific publications on botulinum toxin therapy. He has received several awards, teaches at several foreign universities, and holds patents on botulinum toxin therapy.
Dressler is co-founder and co-convenor of the International Congress on Treatment of Dystonia, co-founder of the International Neurotoxin Association and IAB - Interdisciplinary Working Group for Movement Disorders, the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society Special Interest Group on Spasticity, of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Health Network, and of Fokus Spastik/German Spasticity Forum. He is a consultant to several national and international government agencies and was a long-term Co-Director of We Move, Inc, New York. He is a 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, the Swiss Dystonia Society, Basel, and Deutsche Seniorenliga, Bonn. He is a member of various international medical societies and works as a consultant for various international pharmaceutical companies.
Selected Publications
Dressler published (as of 12/2019) 249 scientific articles with PubMed listing, 58 book chapters, and 12 scientific monographs. 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
- 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
- Sao Paulo University, Brasil
- Monterrey University, Mexico
- Tongji University Medical School, Shanghai, China
- Sechenow University, Moscow, Russia
External Links
- Literature by and about Dirk Dressler in the German National Library catalogue
- PubMed listing
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