Introduction

Derk W. Krieger is Professor of Neurology at the Neuroscience Center at Mediclinic Dubai Campus. He has received his basic neurology training in Heidelberg, Germany and subsequently worked as a consultant at the Texas Medical Center in Houston (1996-1998), Texas, Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1998-2008), Ohio, United States and Chairman of Cerebrovascular Diseases at University of Copenhagen (2008-2015), Denmark. His main research involved acute stroke care and neurocritical care. After his arrival in Dubai in 2015 neuroimmunology, memory dysfunction and headache, anxiety and depressive disorders. have become major interests in his practice. He has been in leadership positions in the field of neurosciences since 2008. He remains active in research and teaching with more than 250 peer reviewed publications.