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Ted Munsat Award: Erich Schmutzhard

Erich Schmutzhard graduated from Medical School Innsbruck in 1974; trained neurologist and intensivist with special interest in intensive care neurology, neuro infectious diseases and tropical neurology; trained in Lienz and Innsbruck, Austria, Liverpool, UK and Bangkok, Thailand.

Beside neuro-infectious diseases and intensive care neurology he concentrated – based upon his international trainings and his 4 years working experience in Southern Tanzania, East Africa– on tropical diseases of the nervous system and migration neurology.

In the year 2000 he was appointed Professor of Intensive Care Neurology at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria, a position which he held until his retirement in September 2017. Since 1994 he is Senior Lecturer in Tropical Neurology at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.

His major clinical research focuses on neuro-critical care and infectious diseases of the CNS, invasive neuro-monitoring in severely brain-injured patients, early prognostication and the contributory role of NICU-complications to morbidity and mortality.

He has published >350 peer reviewed papers and textbooks both as editor, author and/or contributor with specific chapters. He and his team contributed to and participated in a wide range of multi-center studies addressing severe TBI, SAH, meningitis, temperature management in NICU.