Helmuth Steinmetz

Helmuth Steinmetz is University Professor (emeritus) of Neurology at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Following trainings also in neurosurgery and neuroradiology (University of Tübingen) and after receiving an endowed Professorship of Neurology at the University of Düsseldorf he acted as a Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurology/Center for Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University Hospital/Goethe University Frankfurt am Main until the end of 2022.

His German board-certifications include those for neurology, intensive care medicine, physical therapy and specialized genetics. In addition to general neurology, his special interests are neurovascular disease, cognitive and movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, polyneuropathy, neuroimaging and all conditions at the interface of neurology, neurosurgery and neuroradiology.

Professor Helmuth Steinmetz has authored or edited 5 textbooks for medical students and neurologists, has published more than 300 scientific articles listed in PubMed, is Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (FEAN), was President of the German Stroke Society (DSG) and is the Speaker of the Guideline Commission of the German Neurological Society (DGN) since 2020.