Claudia Sommer, MD profile page

Claudia Sommer trained in medicine, where she obtained her doctoral degree. She is a board certified neurologist and psychiatrist and obtained additional training in neuropathology. Presently, she is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Würzburg, Germany, where she serves as a consultant in neurology, organizes outpatient clinics for patients with neuromuscular disorders, pain and headache, and leads the Peripheral Nerve Laboratory with a service for nerve-, muscle- and skin biopsies. Her research interests include the role of inflammation in neuropathy and pain and how autoantibodies are related to diseases. Prof. Sommer has written more than 350 original research papers and more than 100 reviews and book-chapters and edited several books. She has served as President of the German Pain Society in 2019 to 2020 and as President of the International Society for the Study of Pain (IASP) from 2020 to 2022). She is a Fellow of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and has been involved in their educational activities for many years. She is presently a Board member of the Peripheral Nerve Society (PNS) and has received the PNS 2023 Gebhart Prize for her work on inflammatory neuropathies. She is active in the German competence network for peripheral neuropathies (KKPNS), and is Deputy Editor of the European Journal of Neurology.