Dr. Kurt Jellinger

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 expertise and research interests lie in Neuropathology, brain aging, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, non-Alzheimer dementias, movement disorders, CNS aging, neurodegenerative disorders and vascular dementia, multiple system atrophy, and synucleinopathies.

Dr. Jellinger is a member of many national and international societies. He was president of the Austrian Society of Neurology and Psychiatry (1990–1992), President of the Austrian Society of Neuropathology (1994–1998), and is a board member of the Austrian Alzheimer Society, where he was Vice-President (1997–2002). Moreover, Dr. Jellinger was a Vice President of the International Society of Neuropathology from 1981 to 1984.

Dr. Jellinger was an executive editor of Acta Neuropathologica (1978-2005). He is a member of the editorial boards of many international journals. His publications consist of 582 papers in international refereed journals, 536 proceedings, letters, editorials, and commentaries; 180 reviews; 185 contributions or chapters in books, and 696 abstracts. He is an Editor and co-editor of 10 books.