Professor Claudia Sommer

Professor Claudia Sommer

 

Professor of Neurology at the University of Würzburg, Germany

Claudia Sommer is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, with a focus on peripheral neurology and pain. She received training in neurology, psychiatry, neuropathology, and experimental anaesthesia. At the University of Würzburg, she serves as a consultant in neurology, organises outpatient clinics for patients with peripheral neuropathies, headache and pain, and leads the Northern Bavarian Neuromuscular Centre and the Peripheral Nerve Laboratory.

Research interests are the fibromyalgia syndrome, the pathophysiology of antibody-mediated diseases, and the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain. She has written more than 250 original research papers and more than 100 reviews and book-chapters and edited several books. She is active in the development of national and international guidelines on diagnosis and treatment of peripheral neuropathies, and on neuropathic pain. She is a reviewer for scientific journals, the German Research Foundation (DFG) and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. She is a Board Member of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS) and a long-standing active member of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). As of August 2021, she is past president of the German Pain Society and president of the International Society for the Study of Pain.

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