Portrait Dominik Straumann

Dominik Straumann
Prof. Dr. med. Senior Physician, Department of Neurology

Specialties

  • Dizziness and balance disorders

Contact

Tel. +41 44 255 55 50
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Other competencies

  • Gait disturbances
  • Eye movement disorders

Career

Since 2020 Full Professor ad personam for Neurology, University of Zurich
Since 2015 Head of the Center for Dizziness & Neurological Visual Disorders USZ
Since 2015 Vice Director, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. M. Weller)
Since 2008 Head of the Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. M. Weller)
2013 – 2019 Associate Professor ad personam for Neurology, University of Zurich
2005 – 2008 Senior Attending Physician a.i., Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess; since 2008: Prof. M. Weller)
2004 – 2015 Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Dizziness & Balance Disorders USZ (together with S. Hegemann, ORL, and M. Rufer, Psychiatry)
2003 – 2013 Adjunct Professor of Neurology, University of Zurich
1998 – 2005 Attending Physician, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess)
1998 – 2003 Visiting Scientist, Ocular Motor-Vestibular Testing and Research Laboratory (Prof. D.S. Zee), Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA (1998, 1999, 2001 & 2003 2-3 months each)
1998 – 2003 SCORE-A fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation
Since 1998 Head of the Clinical Vestibulo-Oculomotor Laboratory, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess)
1997 – 2003 Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Zurich
1997 – 1998 Senior Assistant, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess)
1996 – 1997 Resident, Electroneuromyography, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess)
1996 Resident, Department of Neurosurgery USZ (Prof. Y. Yonekawa)
1995 Resident, Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. K. Hess)
1994 – 1995 Research Fellow, Ocular Motor-Vestibular Testing and Research Laboratory (Prof. D.S. Zee), Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, USA
1992 – 1994 Resident (including 1 year of electroencephalography & epileptology, Prof. H.G. Wieser), Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. V. Henn)
1991 – 1992 Resident, Internal Medicine (Dr. Ch. Hess), District Hospital Affoltern am Albis
1989 – 1991 Postdoctoral Fellow, Vestibulo-Oculomotor Laboratory (Prof. V. Henn), Department of Neurology USZ (Prof. G. Baumgartner)

Most important memberships

  • Society for Neuroscience
  • Swiss Society for Neuroscience
  • Swiss Neurological Society
  • European Academy of Neurology
  • International Bárány Society
  • Swiss Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Zurich Neurology Society
  • Neuroscience Center Zurich
  • American Neurological Association (by invitation)
  • Center of Clinical Research, University of Zurich
  • Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich
  • Neuro-Otology Society of Australia (honorary member since 2014)
  • Cenacolo Italiano di Audiovestibologia (honorary member since 2019)

Research focus

  • Pathophysiology of balance control
  • Pathophysiology of eye movements
  • Psychophysics of the perception of movement and gravity

Vested interests

Since Assignment Client City
16.01.2023 neurologische Konsilien Praxis Dr. med. Fides Küng Zürich
02.02.2020 Stiftungsratsmitglied Schweizerische Hirnliga Bern
15.06.2015 Stiftungsratspräsident Theodor & Ida Herzog-Egli Stiftung Zollikon
01.10.2012 Stiftungsratspräsident Baasch-Medicus Stiftung Zürich