Hermann Doose

Born 1927
Died

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German neuropaediatrician and epileptologist, born 1927, Lübeck.

Biography of Hermann Doose

Hermann Doose studied medicine at the universities of Kiel and Freiberg im Breisgau. He spent his internship in physiology and pathology, as well as a residency in paediatrics, at Kiel University.

From 1975 to 1992 he was Director of the Kiel University Department of Neuropaediatrics and Medical Director of the North German Epilepsy Centre in Raisdorf / Kiel. Since 1992 he has been Professor and Head of the Epilepsy Research Unit at the Epilepsy Centre, Raisdorf, Germany.

Doose's main field of research is in neuropaediatric subjects with special emphasis on paediatric epileptology.

This biographical information was found on his homepage, http://www.doose-epilepsy.de/

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