Professor Karl Herholz (MD, FRCP) - personal details
Contact details
Role: Professor of Clinical Neuroscience
Email:
Tel: +44 (0)161 275 0014
Location:
The University of Manchester
Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
27 Palatine Road
Manchester
England
M20 3LJ
Fax: +44 (0)161 2750003
Biography
- Graduation as medical doctor at the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1980
- After basic general clinical training, clinical research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany, since 1982
- Clinical specialist training in neurology at municipal and university hospitals, Cologne, Germany, from 1982 to 1990
- Since 1994 professor of neurology at the University of Cologne
- Since 2005, after moving to the University of Manchester, UK, professor in clinical neuroscience and head of the neuroscience imaging programme at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre (WMIC)
- WMIC director from April 2006 to July 2010
Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies
- Royal College of Physicians, fellow
- Royal Society of Medicine, fellow
- Association of British Neurologists
- British Neuro-Oncology Society
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie
- Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
- Manchester Medical Society
- British Medical Association
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Society of Nuclear Medicine
- Brain Imaging Council, President (2010/2011)
Qualifications
- Doctor of medicine (Dr.med.), University of Erlangen, Germany
- Specialist board examination in neurology, Duesseldorf, Germany
- Habilitation and Venia legendi in neurology, University of Cologne, Germany
Role
- Professor and Head of Neuroscience Research at the Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre
- Honorary neurological consultant at Salford Royal Hospital
- Honorary consultant at the Nuclear Medicine Department, Central Manchester Foundation Trust