Bernhard J. Steinhoff

Bernhard Jochen Steinhoff (born September 18, 1961 in Offenburg / Baden) is a German neurologist and epileptologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1980 (with multiple distinctions) Steinhoff studied medicine from 1980 to 1986 at Albert-Ludwig's University in Freiburg im Breisgau. He completed his doctorate in 1989 under Rolf Kruse with a thesis on antiepileptic therapy with bromides at the University of Heidelberg.

From 1987 to 1989 he began his specialist training as an assistant doctor in the clinic for adults at the Kork Epilepsy Center , then from 1990 to mid-1992 he moved to the neurological clinic of the University of Munich in Munich-Großhadern ( Thomas Brandt ). He then completed a six-month research fellowship in the Section of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, USA ( Hans-Otto Lüders ). From the beginning of 1993 he was initially an assistant doctor with the duties of a senior physician in the Clinical Neurophysiology Department of the Georg-August University of Göttingen ( Walter Paulus ). After obtaining specialist certification, he was senior physician in the department and head of the epilepsy and EEG working group from August 1993 to mid-2000. At the beginning of 1997 Steinhoff completed his habilitation with investigations on the neurophysiological profile of established and new anti-epileptic drugs in Göttingen for neurology and clinical neurophysiology.

Steinhoff has been working at the clinic and outpatient clinic for adults at the Kork Epilepsy Center since July 2000, until April 2002 as senior consultant and since then as chief physician and since 2004 as medical director.

In 2001 he was appointed adjunct professor by the University of Göttingen, and in 2004 he was re-qualified at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg .

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Steinhoff has published numerous papers mainly in the field of clinical epileptology and neurophysiology with a focus on pharmacotherapy, side effects of anti-epileptic drugs and preoperative epilepsy diagnostics (241 of which are in journals with a scientific advisory board and 181 are listed in Medline) as well as numerous book contributions. In addition, he is (co-) author or (co-) editor of 7 books.

From 2003 to 2005 Steinhoff was chairman of the working group for presurgical epilepsy diagnostics and epilepsy surgery, from 2005 to 2007 of the German Society for Epileptology (DGfE). From 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the advisory board of the German Society for Neurology and from 2009 to 2013 Co-Chairman of the Commission on Therapeutic Strategies of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE). From 2006 to 2010 he was editor of the journal for epileptology of the DGfE together with Rüdiger Köhling and from 2010 to 2017 together with Heidrun Potschka .

Honourings and prices

• 1990: PhD award from the German Society for Epilepsy Research
• 2001: 1st poster prize of the joint annual meeting of the German, Austrian and Swiss sections of the International League Against Epilepsy, Zurich, 2001
• 2015: Prize of the German Society for Neurology as one of the five best speakers in the advanced training academy
• 2015: (Alfred) Hauptmann Prize