Prof. Werner Hacke University of Heidelberg, Germany

Werner Hacke is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He graduated from the Klinikum Aachen Medical School and received his neurology training from the University Aachen and the University of Berne. Prof. Hacke was actively involved in the development of both intra-arterial... read moreand intravenous thrombolytic therapy and has pioneered hypothermia and decompressive surgery in malignant MCA-infarction. Professor Hacke is President of the European Stroke Initiative and he is on the editorial board of numerous scientific journals.