[BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture - April 30th, 2008 - Palliative Care and Neurology: Challenges and Possibilities

[Jennifer Chew, Ms.]

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 

SPECIAL LECTURE 

Palliative Care and Neurology: Challenges and Possibilities

Raymond Voltz, MD, PhD
Professor of Palliative Medicine
Director, Department of Palliative Medicine 
University of Cologne 

Vice President, German Society for Palliative Medicine 
12:00 pm 

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 
Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 
3801 University Street


(Beverages will be provided, please feel free to bring your lunch)

 

 

 

Dr. Raymond Voltz' clinical and research interests include T-cell immune
pathogenesis of neuro-immunological, antibodies in paraneoplastic
neurological syndromes, and palliative care in neurological disorders
and neuropsychiatric symptoms in palliative care. 

 

He received his medical degree in Munich, and trained at Queen Square,
London, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and Klinikum
Groshadern, Munich. He completed a PhD at Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute
for Medical Microbiology, Munich, and his post doctoral fellowship at
the Max-Planck-Institute at Martinsried.  Dr. Voltz is board certified
in palliative medicine and is a founding member of the German
Association of Palliative Medicine.