Falk Oppel

Falk Oppel (born January 23, 1944 in Darmstadt ) is a German doctor and university professor.

Life

Oppel was born in Darmstadt in 1944, where he also went to school. After studying human medicine , he first worked in Berlin at the Steglitz Clinic of the Free University of Berlin , where he trained as a specialist in neurosurgery. In 1986 he moved to the Gilead Hospitals in Bielefeld as head of neurosurgery, where he was able to develop and establish epilepsy surgery as a special focus . Until 1997 Oppel was chairman of the working group for presurgical epilepsy diagnostics and operative epilepsy therapy . Oppel placed a special focus of his work on training foreign doctors in epilepsy surgery, especially in South America and the Middle East. For this he was honored with the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon in 2004. In 2009 Oppel retired.

Honors and positions

• 1997 President of the German Society for Neurosurgery
• 2004 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 2007 Chairman of the Academy for Medical Training of the Medical Association Westphalia-Lippe and KV Westphalia-Lippe
• 2007 President of the German Academy for Neurosurgery
• Honorary membership of the Neurosurgical Society of Poland
• Honorary membership of the Neurosurgical Society of Thailand

Web links

• "Bethel neurosurgery boss Prof. Falk Oppel is going into retirement" (press release of the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel from January 29, 2009)
• "Dedicated anniversary boy with many interests: Prof. Dr. Falk Oppel celebrates his 70th birthday "in Westfälisches Ärzteblatt 11.13 ( PDF 4.4 MB)
• Elected Deutsches Ärzteblatt vol. 97 issue 47