Uwe Runge

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Uwe Runge (born December 16, 1952 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German neurologist , psychiatrist and epileptologist .

Life

After graduating from high school and completing basic military service in the National People's Army of the former GDR, Runge studied human medicine from 1973 to 1979 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in Greifswald . His doctorate took place in 1981 on the subject of "A contribution to the quantitative analysis and automatic classification of patterns of continuous spontaneous activity in the EEG using linear autoregressive models".

As part of his specialist training, Runge was initially assistant and ward physician in psychiatric wards and from 1981 to 1988 neurological wards at the Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald (with Günter Rabending ). From 1980 to 1983 he completed additional neuroradiology training, and in 1987 computed tomography training (acquisition of specialist knowledge for both in 1991).

In 1983 Runge was certified as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry and became a senior physician. From 1989 to 1993 he was the head of the senior physician's department “Special Attack Consultation” and the EEG department of the Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald and from 1994 to mid-2016 he was the head of the Epilepsy Center at the University of Greifswald Clinic. In 1991/92 he stayed for additional qualification in presurgical epilepsy diagnostics at the University Clinic for Epileptology Bonn (with Christian E. Elger ), and again in 1997 at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio, in the USA (with Hans Lüders).

In November 1992, Runge completed his habilitation in neurology and psychiatry on the subject of "Follow-up examinations in cryptogenic epilepsies with complex partial seizures" and received the license to teach neurology. In 1997 he was appointed Professor of Neurology.

From 1997 to 2001 Runge was a board member of the German section of the International League Against Epilepsy (since 2004: German Society for Epileptology , of which from 1999 to 2001 as 1st chairman).

plant

Runge has u. a. Together with his teacher Rabending, he was particularly committed to improving the documentation of the course of therapy in epilepsy. In addition to a joint book publication on treatment protocols, this also includes the development of an electronic treatment calendar.

In the last few years, Runge u. a. with the long-term course of genetic (idiopathic) epilepsies.

Awards

  • 2017: Honorary membership of the German Society for Epileptology

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rabending G, Runge U. Treatment protocols in epilepsies. Ulm - Stuttgart - Jena - Lübeck, G. Fischer 1997
  2. ↑ Rabending G, Runge U. The electronic epilepsy treatment calendar (Epivista®) - a new instrument for therapy management. Neurol Rehabil 2001; 7: 273-280
  3. ↑ Runge U, Haufe A, Kessler C. Predictors of the course of idiopathic-generalized epilepsy with grand mal seizures. J Epilepsy 1996; 9: 170-175
  4. ↑ Geithner J, Schneider F, Wang Z, Berneiser J, Herzer R, Kessler C, Runge U. Predictors for long-term seizure outcome in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: 25-63 years of follow-up. Epilepsia 2012; 53: 1379-1386
  5. ^ Schneider-von Podewils F, Gasse C, Geithner J, Wang ZI, Bombach P, Berneiser J, Herzer R, Kessler C, Runge U. Clinical predictors of the long-term social outcome and quality of life in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: 20 -65 years of follow-up. Epilepsia 2014; 55: 322-330
personal data
SURNAME Runge, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist, psychiatrist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)