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WFN CANDIDATES
As announced in the August 2005 issue, the International Newsletter will publish additional interviews with World Federation of Neurology (WFN) presidential candidates. Since the last publication, another candidate has been accepted by the WFN Nominating Committee. Professor Wolf-Dieter Heiss of Cologne, Germany, and current president of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, has submitted his bid for this important post and has agreed to answer the same questionnaire that was sent to other candidates. His answers are as follows:
Figure. Wolf-Dieter Heiss, MD
The main mission of the World Federation of Neurology must be to propagate state-of-the-art principles of management and treatment of the most important neurologic diseases and to spread guidelines of evidence-based neurologic care to all countries and regions.
Neurologic diseases are among the leading causes of death and this burden varies among different regions in the world. The differences in incidence and mortality are in part due to the progress made in understanding the pathophysiology and management of neurologic disorders during the last decades, from which mainly industrialized countries have benefited. Neurology in these countries has developed in two directions and has successfully incorporated two dimensions of modern medicine: basic research and neuroimaging.
Basic research has widened our understanding of the etiology and pathophysiology of brain diseases, and this improved insight into development of brain disorders has had a considerable impact on therapeutic strategies and management of acute disease neuroimaging and other investigative procedures—most of them requiring expensive equipment and specially trained personnel—have revolutionized the diagnosis of neurologic disorders, often in an early stage when treatment can be effective to prevent considerable irreversible damage.
These two fundamental steps forward have …
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