Werner Hacke

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Werner Hacke (born March 18, 1948 in Duisburg ) is a German neurologist and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Life

Hacke studied psychology and medicine at RWTH Aachen University from 1968 to 1974 . He received his specialist training at the Gangelt Psychiatric Hospital, the Neurological University Clinic in Aachen and the Neurological Clinic of the University of Bern . He received his doctorate in 1975. He was certified as a specialist in neurology and psychiatry in 1980. From 1980 to 1986 he was senior physician at the neurological clinic of RWTH Aachen, from 1983, after his habilitation , until 1986 senior physician and from 1985 C2 professor for Neurology. From 1986 to 1987 he was a visiting professor at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla / San Diego (California).

In the spring of 1987 he was offered the C4 professorship for neurology at the Neurological University Clinic in Heidelberg and at that time was the youngest head of a neurological clinic in history in Germany. He was dean of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg from 1989 to 1991 and from 1993 to 1994 a member of the hospital board of the Heidelberg University Hospital.

Hacke has been married to Monika Hacke for more than 40 years and has two daughters.

On October 1, 2014, he gave up his position as head of the neurological clinic and full professor for neurology after 27 years and has since been the first senior professor of medicine at Heidelberg University.

Services

Hacke's clinical and scientific activities are in the field of cerebrovascular diseases and neurological intensive care medicine. He was the editor or on the editorial board of several international scientific journals such as Neurology, Stroke, J. Neurological Sciences, Cerebrovascular Diseases and others. He has been co-editor for more than 20 years and editor-in-chief of Nervenarzt since 2014.

He has led many international, guideline-changing clinical studies on prevention (SPACE 1 and 2, CHARISMA, ROCKET-AF) and therapy (ECASS 1-4, DIAS 1,2, DESTINY 1, 2, NEST 3) and was the corresponding author of the European guidelines for stroke management.

With over 400 original articles and reviews, total citations of almost 40.00 and an h-index of 93 (ISI WEB OF SCIENCE) and 106 (GOOGLE SCHOLAR), he is the world's most cited neurologist and stroke researcher between 1990 and 2012.

Honorary memberships

  • American Neurological Association
  • Pan-Russian Society of Neurology
  • French Neurological Association
  • 2003 Austrian Stroke Society
  • 2005 Hungarian Stroke Society
  • 2012 German Society for Neuroradiology
  • 2014 German Stroke Society
  • 2015 German Society for Neurology
  • 2015 German Society for Neurosurgery

Awards and honors

  • 1974 Borchert Award, RWTH Aachen
  • 1994 Yamanuchi Europe Price for Neuroscience
  • 1998 William Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke, American Heart Association (first non-US recipient)
  • 2003 Honorary Chairman of the International Neurocritical Care Society
  • 2003 Chiari Prize of the Austrian Stroke Society
  • 2003 Honorary Professor at the Medical Academy of Georgia
  • 2004 Karolinska Stroke Award, Stockholm (first ever winner)
  • 2008 Nun Medal from the German Society for Neurology
  • 2008 Presidents Award from the World Stroke Organization
  • 2009 Mihara Award from the Mihara Foundation Japan
  • 2009 Max-Jarecki Award, New York
  • 2015 Otfrid Foerster Medal from the German Society for Neurosurgery
  • 2018 Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Association functions

  • 1998 Secretary of the European Stroke Initiative (EUSI)
  • 2001 and 2002 President of the German Society for Neurology (DGN)
  • 2003 and 2004 President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care Medicine (DIVI)
  • Since 2004 member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
  • Since 2006 member of the Board of Trustees of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN)
  • 2008 member of the World Stroke Organization (WSO) and ex officio member of the executive boards, Chair of the conference supervisory committee
  • 2008 Founding President of the European Stroke Organization (ESO)
  • 2009 First Vice President of the WFN
  • 2015 President-elect of the WSO
  • 2016 President of the WSO

He was Co-Chair of the World Stroke Conference in Cape Town in 2006, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the World Stroke Conference in Vienna in 2008, Co-Chair of the World Congress for Neurology in Marrakesh in 2011 and the World Stroke Congress in Brasilia in 2012, Istanbul 2014 and Hyderabad in 2016 and Montreal 2018.

Publications

  • Neurological intensive care medicine. Perimed, Erlangen 1984.
  • Cerebral ischemia. Springer, Heidelberg 1989 (with Michael Hennerici).
  • Interventional Therapy of Stroke. Blackwell Science, New York 1998 (with Steve Davis, Geoffrey Donnan and Jim Grotta).
  • Neurological intensive care medicine. Springer, Heidelberg 1999 (with Stefan Schwab et al).
  • Neurology. 11th edition, Springer, Heidelberg 1998 (with Klaus Poeck).
  • Stroke MRI 2003, Steinkopf Darmstadt (co-editor, with Jochen Fiebach and Peter Schellinger).
  • Guidelines of the German Society for Neurology. Thieme, Stuttgart 2003 (with Christoph Diener).
  • NeuroCritical Care. Springer, Heidelberg 1994 (with Dan Hanley, Karl Einhäupl and Allan Ropper).
  • Neurology 12th edition, Springer, Heidelberg 2006; sole author for the first time
  • Neurology 13th edition, Springer, Heidelberg 2010;
  • Neurology 14th edition (Ed) Springer, Heidelberg 2015

Hacke is also the editor of several national and international scientific journals, including a. The neurologist and member of international advisory boards such as Int. J. Stroke and Eur. J. Stroke.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Sellin , Sebastian Zwies (ed.): The Heidelberg Academy of Sciences as reflected in its inaugural speeches 1944–2008. With a list of their full members 1909–2008. Winter, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8253-5568-5 , p. 19.
  2. ↑ https://filstalexpress.de/politik/70065/
personal data
SURNAME Hoe, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg