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

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