Activities during the last year

1. Evaluation of political proposals for hospital reform, both within the BDH and within the DGNR presidium; preparation of several BDH statements on various issues (specialist hospitals, basic flat-rate payments, definition of service groups)

2. Concept development and programme planning for the BDH symposium "Continuum of care" in conjunction with the BDH parliamentary evening in April 2024 in Berlin

3. Information about and managing submissions for the BDH 2024 Otto Löwenstein Research Prize

4. Project "E-BRAiN: Evidence-based robotic assistance in neurorehabilitation" (www.ebrain-science.de); start of the project 01.07.2019, funded duration until 31.12.2022. In 2023 coordination of the final report for the overall project as joint project coordinator, continuation of the clinically oriented project work (clinical trial) in Greifswald UMG & BDH clinic, financed by funds from the faculty (UMG). 

5. Innovation Fund of the GBA - "Optimisation of post-hospital intensive care for neurological patients (OptiNIV)", start of the project 01.08.2021, duration until 31.07.2025
The project aims to improve the long-term treatment outcome of neurological patients in outpatient intensive care (AIP) by successfully weaning them off mechanical ventilation and/or tracheal cannula (TC). To this end, diagnostic and treatment pathways are to be developed, implemented and evaluated at the interface between inpatient neurorehabilitative and outpatient intensive care. The project is being carried out by neurological early rehabilitation facilities in Bavaria under the direction of Professor Dr Bender (LMU and Burgau Therapy Centre) in cooperation with the AOK Bavaria. The evaluation of the treatment and its results (clinical and health economic) is carried out under my leadership as the Neurorehabilitation Working Group of the University Medicine Greifswald (Head of the Working Group: Platz) together with Prof Dr Kohlmann, Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald and Prof Dr Fleßa, Chair of General Business Administration and Health Management, University of Greifswald. 

6. Guideline project SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 and (early) rehabilitation - DGNR S2k (interdisciplinary), version 4 (3rd update) (lead; draft text and interdisciplinary coordination process completed again in 2023, guideline published in January 2024).

7. Guideline project Neurological manifestations in COVID-19 - DGN S2k (co-author; text revision for the rehabilitative area and interdisciplinary coordination process completed again (update) in 2023, guideline published).

8. Guideline project Rehabilitation of sensorimotor disorders - DGN/DGNR S2k (coordination Nelles [DGN]/Platz [DGNR]; the guidelines were redrafted; texts and interdisciplinary coordination process implemented in 2022, the work was completed and the guideline published in 2023.

9. Guideline project Therapy of spastic syndrome - DGN/DGNR S2k (coordination Nelles [DGN]/Platz [DGNR]; the guidelines will be redrafted; contact with the organisations to be involved in 12.2023; start of the literature search and evaluation for the update, the focus of the project work and the publication of the guideline should take place in 2024.

10. Supervision of the certification of centres for weaning in neurological and neurosurgical early rehabilitation as a member of the DGNR Certification Committee; including preparation of a publication on the results of certification in the first year in 2023 (specialist journal Nervenarzt).

11. Review of systematic reviews "Therapy with a humanoid robot" (project with a Master student; start in 2023, completion of the Master thesis in 2024).

12. WFNR: Organisation of the certificate course on "Evidence-based Practice Recommendations for Stroke Rehabilitation" as a weekly online course 09-12 2023 (participants from 37 countries).

13. Participation in international expert groups on stroke (Lancet Neurology Commission on Stroke, in collaboration with the World Stroke Organisation and the WHO); in this context, among other things, conducting an international survey (WFNR members and former course participants) on the feasibility of multiprofessional rehabilitation after stroke in various regions of the world in 2022; publication in 2023.