Martin Koltzenburg MD

Professor Martin Koltzenburg is a neurologist and the head of the department of clinical neurophysiology at The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square.

He studied medicine at the University of Kiel, Germany and UCL during this time he earned a doctorate with research into the neurophysiological mechanisms of pain. This was followed by postdoctoral research and clinical specialist training at the department of physiology of the University of Erlangen, the department of neurology of the University of Würzburg, Germany and the department of clinical neurophysiology of the University of Uppsala, Sweden.

His work won him several prizes including the research prize of the International Association for the Study of Pain, and the Patrick Wall medal of the British Pain Society.

He is regularly lecturing internationally and was the Bjorn Lind Lecturer at the Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, the Traveling Speaker of the Canadian Pain Consortium and the Michael Cousins Foundation Visitor’s Lecturer of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.