Hans-christoph Diener MD, PhD

Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, Ph.D. is a Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the Medical Faculty of the University Duisburg-Essen in Essen. He was Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Essen from 1989 to April 2016. He was President of the German Neurological Society (2003-2004), the European Headache Federation (2006-2008), and the International Headache Society (2009-2011). 

Dr. Diener received his medical degree at the Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg and continued his training there in the Departments of Neurology, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, and Surgery. Prior to joining the University of Essen, he was an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology at the University of Tubingen. He worked at the Neurological Sciences Institute in Portland, Oregon in 1984 and 1985 and at the Department of Neurology, University of New South Wales in Sydney in 1987 and 1988. 

Dr. Diener’s special research interests focus on stroke, headache, and cerebellar physiology. He set up the first acute stroke unit in Germany in 1995. He was and is the principal investigator of major trials in the acute therapy and prevention of stroke (ESPS2, MATCH, PRoFESS, SWIFT-PRIME, RE-SPECT-ESUS) and participated in the recent trials on NOACs in stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation. Dr. Diener is responsible for several multi-center stroke registries.