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Opening Remarks

Wolfgang GRISOLD
WFN, President and Congress Committee

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Grisold, FAAN is a specialist for neurology and psychiatry. He headed the department of neurology of the Kaiser Franz Josef hospital in Vienna, Austria.

His special interests apart from general neurology are neuromuscular diseases, neurooncology, advocacy, palliative care and education in neurology. His has particular expertise in neuromuscular disease in regards to clinical findings, electrophysiology, neuropathology and imaging.

He has worked on paraneoplastic syndromes and has participated in 2 EU projects on paraneoplastic syndromes and in 2 ECCO- EU projects on video education in oncology. His focus in the past years was the effect of cancer on the peripheral nervous system not only in regard to remote and paraneoplastic effects, but also toxicity and direct neoplastic involvement on the peripheral nervous system.

Other topics were essays on placebo and nocebo, advocacy in neurology and neurology in migrants and refugees. He currently has 750 publications among them 18 books (Atlas of neuromuscular disease, 3 editions) and 260 Pubmed quoted publications. The topics of publications are wide and focused in the past years on neuromuscular, neuroncology and education.

He has been involved in education from the aspects of CME and CPD (EFNS, UEMS, EACCME, WFN), residency training (Austrian society of neurology and UEMS), board examinations (Austrian society and UEMS/EBN), patient and caregiver education and European and international department visits (UEMS/WFN). He has chaired the education committee of the EFNS from 2002 until 2007, has been the co-chair of the education committee of the WFN.

From 2000 to 2002, he was the founding president of the Austrian Society of Neurology. He is a past president of the UEMS/EBN and the EANO (European Association of neurooncology). His present scientific association is with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental und Clinical Traumatology and the Institute of anatomy of the University in Vienna, among several international cooperations.

He also works in a private office, with expertise on neuromuscular diseases and EMG.

Since 2022 he is the president of the WFN. His goals are the improvement of communication, the increase of impact of neurology worldwide, and the continuous evolution of the WFN in its global mission and role with an emphasis on educational projects.