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Peter Rieckmann received his medical
degree from the University of Göttingen
in 1989. After a postdoctoral fellowship in
molecular immunology at the NIH, Bethesda,
USA he completed his training in Neurology
at the National Institute for Nervous Disease,
London, UK and the University of Göttingen,
Germany. Professor Rieckmann received
Board certification in Neurology in 1995. His
academic and clinical positions have included
Senior (staff) Neurologist and Professor
for Neurology, Dept. of Neurology, as well
as head of the Clinical Research Group for
Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology,
at the Julius-Maximilians University of
Würzburg. He holds several positions as
visiting professor across the globe. In 2007
Professor Rieckmann became the MS
Society of Canada Research Chair and
Director of the MS Program at the University
of British Columbia and Vancouver Hospital,
Canada. Under his leadership the Vancouver
program was awarded Western-Pacific
Research and Training Center by the MS
Society of Canada. He is founding member of
the EndMS campaign in Canada. His major
research interests are disease modifying
factors and regeneration in multiple
sclerosis as well as functional aspects of the
blood brain barrier in neuroimmunological
diseases. Professor Rieckmann’s clinical
goals include enhancing awareness and
education about MS, developing effective
and properly resourced services for MS
outpatient care, and providing more
customized treatments for patients. As
a clinician scientist he has been actively
involved in different efforts to transfer
bench results to clinical developments and
serves on steering committees of various
international multi-centre MS trials (Phase
II and III). In September 2009 he started a
new position as Director of the Neurological
Clinic at the Academic Hospital in Bamberg,
and Professor of Neurology at the University
of Erlangen, Germany. Professor Rieckmann
is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Canada. He has received
numerous awards and research grants and
has over 200 papers to his credit in peer-
reviewed medical journals.
Bamberg Hospital and University of Erlange
Bamberg, Germany