Jean-Marc Burgunder

Jean-Marc Burgunder

Bern, Switzerland

Field of expertise:

Neurogenetics, Movement disorders, Palliative care

Main clinical topics:

Jean-Marc Burgunder has graduated in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in Bern, Switzerland, and trained in internal medicine, neurology and neuroscience in Switzerland and at the Institutes of Mental Health in Bethesda, USA. He is an emeritd Professor of Experimental Neurology at the faculty of medicine of the University in Bern. He has spent some years as a Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He is a visiting Professor of Neurogenetics at the Central South University in Changsha and at the Sichuan University in Chengdu (China). He also holds a position as an adjunct professor at the Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou in China. He is Senior consultant at the Siloah Neurocenter, including the Swiss HD Center at Siloah in Gümligen (Bern), devoted to the care of patients with rare neurological disorders, along with the provision of general neurology services for the area. Founding Steering committee member of the Chinese Huntington’s Disease Network, Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology.

Department of Neurology, University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland