PD Dr. med. Martin Hümmert

Personal profile

 

Qualifications

  • Specialist in neurology
  • Investigator for clinical studies
  • Decentralized data protection contact person for the Clinical Department

 

Clinical focus

  • Diagnosis and treatment of AQP4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum diseases (AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of antibody-negative neuromyelitis optica spectrum diseases (Ak- NMOSD)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of MOG-IgG antibody-associated diseases (MOGAD)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of all other neuroimmunological diseases
  • Cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics

 

Main areas of research

Management of numerous national and international multicenter studies:

  • Optimization of long-term and relapse therapy for demyelinating CNS diseases
  • Investigation of cognition in NMOSD and MOGAD (CogniNMO study, CogniMOG study)
  • Effects of late onset of neuroimmunological diseases
  • Investigation of the costs of illness and quality of life including the overall social perspective of rare diseases using the example of NMOSD and MOGAD (CHANCE-NMO study)
  • Investigation of pandemic effects on rare diseases using the example of NMOSD and MOGAD (COPANMO(G) study)
  • Biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy decisions in neuroimmunological diseases
  • Caregiver burden in NMOSD and MOGAD

Establishment and expansion of registry database for NMOSD and MOGAD

Many years of study experience (Phase II-IV and IITs) in neurological diseases

Link to the research page

 

Research funding

  • NEMOS e. V. project funding (NegMO study)

 

Publications:

 

Memberships

  • German Society for Neurology (DGN)
  • Neuromyelitis optica study group (NEMOS) e. V. (founding member, board member and secretary)
  • Medical and scientific advisory board of the national self-help group Myelitis e. V.
  • Medical Professional Network of the international self-help group Siegel Rare Neuroimmune Association (SRNA)
  • German Society for CSF Diagnostics and Clinical Neurochemistry (DGLN)
  • Young Liquorology of the DGLN
  • Centre for Rare Diseases (ZSE) of the MHH
  • MOGAD Eugène Devic European Network (MEDEN)