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Peter A. Winkler
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About

Peter A. Winkler obtained his medical degree in 1984 at the University of
Innsbruck - Austria and in 1985 at the University of Bologna-Italy.
He completed the residency training program at the Ludwig
Maximilians-University of Munich Germany, where he became staff member in
August 1993.

After his fellowship in epilepsy surgery at the Cleveland Clinic - USA he
created the neurosurgical part of the Munich Epilepsy Surgery Program and he
was a Member of the Cleveland - Munich Epilepsy Surgery Education - Program
for many years. He was a Guest Professor at many institutions in the World,
for example in Zurich - Switzerland, Cape Town - South Africa, Kanazawa -
Japan and Helsinki - Finland, where he learned under the guidance of Prof.
Juha Hernesniemi.

After two years as chairman of the Clinic for Neurosurgery and Epilepsy
Surgery in Vogtareuth - Germany in December 2011 he was elected Full
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Christian
Doppler-Medical Center of the Paracelsus Medical University of Salzburg -
Austria.

He is an Active Member of the Austrian Society of Neurosurgery, German
Society of Neurosurgery, International Meningioma Society,
American Association of Neurological Surgeons and of the European Academy of
Sciences & Arts.

He is of Italian Citizenship, married and the father of three children.

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