Thomas Platz

Thomas Platz was educated at the medical school in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany, and in 1988 at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Dr.med. degree in 1990. He started his residency in neurology in Berlin, Germany, in 1989. In 1995, he received the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship (AvH foundation) and stayed at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. In 1997, he received the Dipl. in epidem. and biostats from the McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, and became Neurologist and Clinical Geriatrist Consultant in Berlin, Germany. In 2002, Habilitation degree in neurorehabilitation at the Charite Berlin, Germany. In 2006, he became the Head of the Department of Neurohabilitation at the BDH Klinik Greifswald, Germany. Since 2009, he had been acting as a Medical Director of that hospital and as Head of the Department of both the Neurorehabilitation Centre there and the Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and received a personal professorship for neurorehabilitation at the University Greifswald; since 10.2018 he acts as Medical Director Research at the BDH Klinik Greifswald and Head, Institute for Neurorehabilitation and Evidence-based Practice ("An-Institut"), University of Greifswald; in addition, he leads the neurorehabilitation research group at the Universitätsmedizin Greifswald. Among other activities he is Regional Vice President Central and Western Europe, head of the Education Committee and the Special Interest Group Clinical Pathways of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation, WFNR; in addition, he is liaison person for the WFNR-Cochrane Rehabilitation collaboration. He is Past-President of the German society for neurorehabilitation (DGNR), and head of its Practice Guideline and Research Committees. Specialty Chief Editor in Neurorehabilitation for Frontiers in Neurology.