Dr Winfried Neuhuber

Winfried Neuhuber is a native Austrian anatomist and general practitioner. He obtained his Dr. med. univ. degree (equivalent to MD) from Vienna University in 1975 and habilitation in anatomy (roughly equivalent to PhD) from Zurich University in 1989. Since 1992 he was full professor of anatomy and chairman at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg where he is Professor emeritus since April 2017.
Besides teaching anatomy for medical and dentistry students and giving anatomy courses for advanced students of osteopathy, his research topics are the autonomic nervous system, in particular the innervation of the gastrointestinal tract, and the innervation of the cranio-cervical area

Professional career

1975 – 1978 Lecturer, Anatomy Institute, Univ. of Vienna (head: Prof. W. Zenker)
1978 – 1979 Lecturer, Anatomy Institute, Univ. of Zürich (head: Prof. W. Zenker)
1979 – 1983 Training for general practitioner in Hamburg and Bad Ischl (Austria)
1983 – 1992 Senior lecturer, Anatomy Institute, Univ. of Zürich (head: Prof. W. Zenker)
1992 – 2017 Chairman of Anatomy, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU);
Prof. emeritus since April 2017

Memberships

1986 Anatomische Gesellschaft
1992 Society for Neuroscience
1993 AAAS
1997 International Society for Autonomic Neuroscience (ISAN)
1997 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurogastroenterologie und Motilität
2001 AG Autonomes Nervensystem in der DGN
2003 European Society of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
2012 Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (corresponding member)

Editorial Board memberships

Histochemistry and Cell Biology
The Anatomical Record
Cells, Tissues, Organs (Associate Editor)