Wilhelm Eisner
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria
Biography
Wilhelm Eisner studied Chemistry and Medicine at the University of Cologne, Mainz and Munich. Until 1999, Medical University Munich and since 1999 Medical University Innsbruck. At the LMU Munich he got his general neurosurgical training. In Bern, Munich, Pittsburgh, Cologne he got special training in Electrophysiology, Functional Neurosurgery, Stereotaxy and Radiosurgery. He was a founding member of the team (H J Reulen) who introduced awake craniotomy in Oncologic Neurosurgery in Europe in 1988 in Bern; Swiss and 1991 in Munich, Germany. He has a main concern of functional integrity of neurosurgical patients therefore he built up a reputation in intraoperative electrophysiology internationally in the beginning of the 1990’s. His second and predominant subject is deep brain stimulation in movement disorders and pharmaco resistant pain syndromes, beside psychiatric disorders and radiosurgery. He is the Founder and Head of the Austrian Society of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Radiosurgery, Intraoperative Electrophysiology, Intraoperative Imaging beside member of the board of the Austrian Pain Society, Vice President of the German Society of Neuromodulation. He is Lecturer at the Medical University Innsbruck, Mozarteum Salzburg/Innsbruck, Danube University Krems beside many other academic functions. He published more than 100 articles and gained 3788 citations, RG score 35.29, CI 332.
Abstract
Abstract : Neurosurgical pain treatment in the head: past-presence-future