Dr. Peter Schellinger serves as Chairman in the Departments of Neurology and Neurogeriatry at Johannes Wesling Medical Center Minden, University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum in Minden, Germany. He is board certified for Neurology, Geriatrics and Intensive Care Medicine. After medical school in Aachen, Germany, he received his Training in Heidelberg with Werner Hacke, and continued research and work in Heidelberg as Assistant and Associate Professor of Neurology and attending interrupted for a year as Visiting Research Fellow at the NINDS, NIH, USA in Bethesda with Steven Warach. From 2006 to 2010 he worked as Professor and vice chairman at the Dept of Neurology, univ. at Erlangen with Stefan Schwab before moving to Minden in 2010. He has authored and coauthored over 300 publications with a current cumulative Impact Factor >1800 and a Hirsch Factor of 60. He served 8 years on the Board of Directors and 3 years on the Executive Committee of ESO.