Werner Poewe

Professor Werner Poewe is emeritus Professor of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria.. He previously served as acting director of the Department of Neurology at the Virchow Hospital of the Free University of Berlin in Germany before becoming director of the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck from 1995 until 2019. Professor Poewe has served as president of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS),, president of the Austrian Society of Neurology, and president of the Austrian Parkinson’s Disease Society. He is a corresponding member of the American Neurological Association and an honorary member of the German Neurological Society, Japanese Neurological Society, and MDS. Professor Poewe’s main research interests are in the field of Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders, with particular emphasis on the diagnosis, natural history and clinical trials in the fields of Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonism.