Professor Matthias Schneider
Business
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Germany
Biography
Professor Schneider is Head of the Rheumatology Clinic, The Hiller Research Unit at Heinrich-Heine-University in Duesseldorf and Rhein-Ruhr, The Cooperation Multipurpose Arthritis Center. He is qualified within internal medicine, rheumatology, physical therapy and endocrinology and has been working in this field now for more than 30 years. In 1988, he was awarded the Venia Legendi for Internal Medicine. His major research interests include systemic connective tissue diseases, patient-reported outcomes and risk stratification of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. From 2013-2014, he was President of the German Society of Rheumatology, and is still leading the development of guidelines for rheumatic diseases. He represented German rheumatology research in the EULAR recommendations for various topics in SLE. For more than 20 years he supported the German SLE patient group as a board member and has been a medical advisor of Lupus Europe since 2004.
Research Interest
Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Bipolar disorder, Immunology
