Area of expertise
Specialty
Neurology, Psychiatry
Subspecialty
Neuropathology, Geriatric Psychiatry
Diseases
Multiple System Atrophy, Movement Disorders, Synucleinopathies, Alzheimer's Disease, Extrapyramidal Disorders, Parkinsonism, Dementia in Parkinson’s Disease, Lewy Body Dementia
Experience
Chief, Institute of Clinical Neurobiology
Vienna, Austria. From 2002
Full Professor of Neuropathology, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria. From 1973
Guest Professor, University of Graz and Medical University of Innsbruck
Austria. 1998 - 2000
Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical Neurobiology
Vienna, Austria. 1977 - 2002
Director, Department of Neurology, Lainz Hospital
Vienna, Austria. 1976 - 1997
Education
MD: Medical University of Vienna
1956
Biography
Dr. Kurt Jellinger is a specialist in neurology, neuropathology, and psychiatry. He received his Medical Degree from the Medical University of Vienna. He became a Full Professor of neuropathology in 1973 and was appointed as the Director of the Department of Neurology at Lainz-Hospital in 1976. Dr. Jellinger later became the Director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Clinical Neurobiology. Since 2002, he has been the Chief of the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology. Dr. Jellinger's expertis
Affiliations
Honorary Member, German Society of Neurology
Honorary Member, Austrian Society of Neurology and Psychiatry
Honorary Member, German Society of Neuropathology
Honorary Member, Austrian Society of Neuropathology
Honorary Member, German Alzheimer Society
Awards
Cotzias Award of the Movement study group of the Spanisch Society of Neuropathology
2011
Istvan Környey Tarscosag Award
2005
Lundbeck Award for Parkinson Research
2003
Karl Maria Jakob Medal of the German Association of Neuropathology
2003
Senator-Doctor Franz Burda Award
2000
Publications
Dr. Kurt Jellinger has more than 1000 publications