Hermann Stefan

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Hermann Stefan (born June 24, 1945 in Bleckendorf , today Egeln ) is a German neurologist and epileptologist .

Life

Stefan studied medicine at the University of Cologne (until 1970, doctorate in 1971) as well as archeology and German studies at the University of Bonn . From 1970 to 1972 he was a medical assistant, in 1973 he began his specialist training in neuropathology at the University of Bonn, which he continued from 1974 in the mental hospital of the University of Bonn. In 1977 he became a specialist in neurology and psychiatry . From 1977 to 1981 (1977–1979 with a DFG grant) he was a research assistant in epileptology (with Heinz Penin ). At the same time, with the support of the WHO, he completed a study visit on didactic methods in medicine at various universities in the Netherlands.

In 1981 he completed his habilitation as part of a DFG-funded research project on the analysis of epileptic seizures with a video-polygraphic work on the course structure of manifest and subclinical absence symptoms (with a description of the cranio-caudal march of absences and a core-shell model), then he was Senior physician.

In 1987 he moved to the Neurological University Clinic Erlangen ( Bernhard Neundörfer ) (initially as a senior physician - from 1988 as a senior physician and head of the clinical neurophysiology department ). There, with the support of the Federal Ministry of Health, he built up and expanded the Center for Epilepsy Erlangen (ZEE), and in 2006 the university set up a professorship for epileptology for him. In 1993 he acquired the additional qualification in neurogeriatry . From 2000 to 2004 he held a visiting professorship in Graz and has been retired since 2010. Since then he has continued to be involved at national and international level at congresses, seminars and training events.

Create

The scientific focus of Stefan in Erlangen consisted in the most precise analysis of epileptic seizures and biosignals. This included the introduction of multimodal preoperative diagnostics using video EEG , multi-channel magnetic encephalography (MEG), MRT , PET and ictual SPECT, as well as the objective quantification of the therapeutic effect ( Therapeutic Intensive Seizure Analysis , TISA).

Stefan was among other things the initiator and board member of the Association for the Promotion of Research into the Epidemiology of Epilepsy (1991), the Working Group on Pre-Surgical Epilepsy Diagnostics and Operative Epilepsy Therapy eV (1993), the German-Austrian-Swiss Working Group (DACH-AK) Epilepsy (1994) and of the interdisciplinary working group Architecture of Life (2012).

Stefan was among others 1991-1993 chairman of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy ( English International League Against Epilepsy , ILAE) (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology ; DGfE). In the ILAE he was a member of various commissions.

Stefan was also the initiator and organizer of the joint sessions on epilepsy topics at the meetings of the European Federation of Neurological Sciences (EFNS), later the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) with the Commission on European Affairs (CEA) of the ILAE, which involved an exchange of epileptological information a wide range of neurologists.

He is also a board member of the State Association for Epilepsy Self-Help North Rhine-Westphalia

Works (selection)

In addition to several hundred national and international magazine and book articles, Stefan is (co-) author or (co-) editor of 21 books:

  • H. Stefan: Epileptic absences. Study on the seizure structure, pathophysiology and clinical course. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1982.
  • H. Stefan, W. Burr (Ed.): Mobile Long-term EEG Monitoring. Proceedings of the MLE Symposium, Bonn May 1982. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1982.
  • H. Stefan, W. Burr: Atlas of Mobile Long-Term EEG Recordings / Atlas of mobile long-term EEG recordings. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / New York 1986.
  • H. Stefan (Ed.): Preoperative diagnostics for epilepsy surgery. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1989.
  • FE Dreifuss, H. Meinardi, H. Stefan (Eds.): Chronopharmacology in the Therapy of the Epilepsies. Raven Press, New York 1990.
  • H. Stefan, J. Bauer: Status epilepticus. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York et al. 1990.
  • H. Stefan: Epilepsies. Diagnosis and treatment. (= Practical neurology ). VCH / editionmedizin, Weinheim / Basel / Cambridge / New York 1991. (third edition: Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1999)
  • K. Bachmann, H. Stefan, J. Vieth (Eds.): Biomagnetism: Principles, Models and clinical Research. Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1992.
  • H. Stefan (Ed.): Epilepsy 92. Mechanisms of secondary epileptogenesis; Non-Drug Therapy / Interactive Monitoring; Idiopathic, cryptogenic, and symptomatic epilepsy; Preoperative diagnostics and epilepsy therapy; Therapy strategies. 32nd Annual Meeting of the German Section of the International League Against Epilepsy, September 17/19, 1992. German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, Berlin 1993.
  • R. Kruse , H. Stefan: Communication between partners. Epilepsy sufferers. (= Series of publications of the Federal Working Group on Help for the Disabled. Volume 204). 8th edition. Federal Working Group Help for the Disabled eV, Düsseldorf 1993.
  • H. Stefan, R. Canger, G. Spiel (Eds.): Epilepsie '93. Prevention, rehabilitation, social integration; Preoperative diagnostics: neuroimaging, neuropsychology, seizure symptoms; Cerebral malformation and epilepsy; New therapeutic aspects. Joint annual meeting of the German, Austrian and Italian sections of the International League Against Epilepsy, October 7-10, 1993, Merano / Italy. German section of the International League Against Epilepsy, Berlin 1994.
  • SD Shorvon, DR Fish, F. Andermann , GM Bydder, H. Stefan (Eds.): Magnetic Resonance Scanning and Epilepsy. Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advanced Magnetic Resonance and Epilepsy, held October 1/3, 1992, in Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. (= NATO ASI Series; Series A: Life Sciences. Vol 264). Plenum Press, New York / London (New York, Springer Science + Business Media) 1994.
  • K. Meier-Ewert, H. Stefan (Ed.): Seizures in sleep. G. Fischer, Stuttgart / Jena / New York 1995.
  • G. Pawlik, H. Stefan (Ed.): Focus Localization. Multimethodological Assessment of Localization-related Epilepsy. League publishing house, Berlin 1996.
  • H. Stefan, G. Krämer , B. Mamoli (Eds.): Challenge Epilepsy / New Antiepileptic Drugs. Blackwell Science / Blackwell Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin / Vienna 1998.
  • H. Stefan, F. Andermann, P. Chauvel, SD Shorvon (Eds.): Plasticity in Epilepsy: Dynamic Aspects of Brain Function. (= Advances in Neurology. Vol 81). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia / Baltimore / New York et al. 1999.
  • H. Stefan, G. Kurlemann, H.-J. Meencke , BJ Steinhoff : Interactive teaching atlas epilepsies. (CD-ROM). G. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2006. (current edition: H. Stefan, G. Kurlemann, HJ Meencke, BJ Steinhoff: Interaktiver Lehratlas Epilepsien. (CD-ROM). 2nd edition. G. Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 2013; online version available via Doc-Check access at www.lehratlas-epilepsien.de)
  • H. Stefan, WH Theodore (Ed.): Epilepsy Part I: Basic Principles and Diagnosis. (= Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Third Series. Vol 107). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 2012.
  • H. Stefan, WH Theodore (Ed.): Epilepsy Part II: Treatment . (= Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Third Series. Vol 108). Elsevier Science, Amsterdam 2012.
  • H. Stefan, E. Ben-Menachem, P. Chauvel, R. Guerrini (Eds.): Case Studies in Epilepsy. Common and Uncommon Presentations. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2012.
  • M. Kaufmann, H. Stefan (ed.): Architecture of life. (= Meeting point philosophy. Volume 15). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2017.

Awards

  • 1983: Bodelschwingh Prize
  • 1992: (Alfred) Hauptmann Prize (again in 2006 as a member of a working group he led)
  • 1994: Honorary membership of the Polish League Against Epilepsy
  • 1996: Honorary Professorship at Cheng Du University (China)
  • 1999: “Ambassador for Epilepsy” of the ILAE and the IBE
  • 2000: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2012: Honorary memberships of the DGfE and the Working Group on Pre-Surgical Epilepsy Diagnostics and Operative Epilepsy Therapy eV
  • 2018: Otfrid Foerster Medal of the DGfE

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Stefan: Epileptic absences. Study on the seizure structure, pathophysiology and clinical course . Thieme, Stuttgart / New York 1982, ISBN 3-13-638901-8 .
  2. ^ H. Stefan, C. Hummel: Magnetoencephalography. In: H. Meinardi (Ed.): The Epilepsies. Part I. (= Handbook of Clinical Neurology. Vol 72 (Rev Series, Vol 28)). Elsevier, Amsterdam / Lausanne / New York et al. 1999, ISBN 0-444-82810-9 , pp. 319–336.
  3. ^ H. Stefan, C. Hummel, G. Scheler et al .: Magnetic brain source imaging of focal epileptic activity: a synopsis of 455 cases. In: Brain. 126, 2003, pp. 2396-2405.
  4. ↑ MJM Fischer, G. Scheler, H. Stefan: Utilization of magnetoencephalography results to obtain favorable outcomes in epilepsy surgery. In: Brain. 128, 2005, pp. 153-157.
  5. ↑ M. Kaufmann, H. Stefan (Ed.): Architecture of Life. (= Meeting point philosophy. Volume 15). Peter Lang, Frankfurt 2017.
  6. ↑ neurotree.org
personal data
SURNAME Stefan, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bleckendorf , today Egeln