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A.o. Univ. Prof. Dr. Martha Feucht

Austria

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Language Spoken: German, English

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"Epilepsy can have many causes. The aim is to tailor therapies and stop the seizures with medication or surgery.", says Prof. Martha Feucht, Head of the Outpatient Clinic for Advanced Epilepsy Diagnostics at the University Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Vienna General Hospital.

Publications

  • Numerous publications, book entries and original works

Membership

  • Member of the EPNS
  • Member of the Board of the Austrian Society for Clinical Neurophysiology/ÖGKN President November 2011 - October 2015
  • Member of the Austrian Society of Neurology/ÖGN Responsible for child neurology since 2012
  • Member of the European Academy of Neurology since 2017 (Scientific Panel of Child Neurology since 2018)
  • Board member of the Austrian Epilepsy Society First President October 2004 - October 2008
  • Member of the Surgical Therapies Commission of the ILAE since 2017
  • Board member Member of the AG Epilepsy Surgery D-A-CH (Working Group for Pre-Surgical Diagnostics and Surgical Epilepsy Therapy e.V.), President since 2019
  • Member of the D-A-CH AG Epilepsy (Steering Committee)
  • Member of the AES
  • Member of the WC (President 2013-15) + SAB of TOSCA
  • Affiliated partner of ERN EpiCARE since 2019, application for full membership

Experience

  • 11. 2003 diploma in epileptology of the ÖGfE/ILAE certification of the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic ÖGfE/ILAE
  • 11. 2003 diploma in epileptology of the ÖGfE/ILAE certification of the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic ÖGfE/ILAE
  • 11. 2002 education authorization in clinical neurophysiology
  • 01. 03. 2000 Associate professor at the Medical University of Vienna
  • Since 01.06.2004 board certification in neuropediatrics
  • 01. 06.2004 Move of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic and the EEG-Unit from the Department of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry to the Department of Paediatrics, Medical University of Vienna
  • 2009 certified EUREPA trainer

Education

  • 25.05.1999 venia legendi ("habilitation”) in neurology
  • 09. 12.1992 Specialist certification for neurology and psychiatry
  • 15.10.1987 License (ius practicandi) for pediatrics
  • 11.06.1986 License (ius practicandi) as a general practitioner
  • 1973 -1979 studies of medicine at the University of Vienna, Zulassung Dr. univ med.
  • 09.12.1992 board certification in neurology and psychiatry
  • 17. 04.1993 board certification in clinical electroencephalography
  • diploma in epileptology of the ÖGfE/ILAE certification of the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic ÖGfE/ILAE
  • 2011 Certificate “epileptology plus” of the ÖGfE / ILAE
  • Since 01 06 2004 board certification in neuropediatrics
  • 16.11.2002 education authorization in clinical neurophysiology
  • 07.11. 2003 diploma in epileptology of the ÖGfE/ILAE certification of the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic ÖGfE/ILAE
  • 2011 Certificate “epileptology plus” of the ÖGfE/ILAE
  • 01.06.2004 move of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit

Services

  • Differential diagnosis of seizures
  • Treatment of epilepsies in children and adolescents with a focus on difficult-to-treat epilepsies
  • Testing drug resistance to therapy
  • Rare and complex epilepsies with pharmacoresistance
  • Pre-surgical epilepsy diagnostics and surgical epilepsy therapy (curative and palliative)
  • Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
  • Ketogenic nutritional therapies
  • Neurocutaneous diseases (tuberous sclerosis / Sturge Weber syndrome / overgrowth syndrome...)
  • Epilepsy monitoring unit. )
  • Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (intensive video-EEG long-term monitoring with scalp and invasive electrodes)
  • Follow-up care and planning of rehabilitation after epilepsy surgery