Prof. Dr. med. Christian Günther Bien

Curriculum vitae

Prof. Dr. Christian G. Bien
Dept. of Epileptology (Krankenhaus Mara)
Bielefeld University, Campus Bielefeld Bethel
Maraweg 21
33617 Bielefeld
Germany
E-mail: christian.bien@mara.de

Private address:
Kreuzbreede 7
33649 Bielefeld
Germany
PERSONAL DATA
Born: April 11, 1967
Place of birth: Witten/Ruhr, Germany
Citizenship German
Marital Status Married, one daughter

SCHOOL EDUCATION
1973-1977 Primary school: Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Witten-Herbede
1977-1986 High School: Georgii-Gymnasium Esslingen/N.

CIVILIAN SERVICE
1987-1989 Paul-Lechler-Hospital Tübingen (nursing sector)

UNIVERSITY TRAINING
1989-1991 Medical studies at University of Tübingen
1991-1996 Medical studies at Free University Berlin
1989-1996 Full scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (this is the premier federal merit-based fellowship program in Germany)

GRADUATION
1996 State examination in medicine, Free University Berlin (MD)
1997 Doctorate, awarded "summa cum laude," University of Tübingen
2006 Habilitation (equivalent to PhD degree), University of Bonn

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE
1996 Medical license, Germany
2005 Board certification in Neurology
2005 Board certification for Electroneurography/Electromyography
2006 Board certification for Evoked Potentials
2010 Board certification for EEG

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
1997 – 2005 Residencies at the Departments of Epileptology (Head: Prof. Dr. C.E. Elger), Neuropathology (Prof. Dr. O.W. Wiestler), Neurology (Prof. Dr. T. Klockgether), Psychiatry (Prof. Dr. W. Maier), Neurosurgery (Prof. Dr. J. Schramm), University of Bonn

POSITIONS
2005-2006 Senior Neurologist at the Dept. of Epileptology of University of Bonn
2006-2010 Senior Neurologist and Leading Assistant Medical Director, Dept. of Epileptology, University of Bonn, especially responsible for the presurgical assessment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy patients
April 2010 Offer of a Professorship for Epileptology at the Dept. of Neurology of University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Offer rejected by CGB
Since 2011 Clinical Director Krankenhaus Mara, Epilepsy Centre Bielefeld-Bethel
Since 2016 Consultant to the Laboratory Krone, Bad Salzuflen, for neural antibodies and therapeutic drug monitoring of antiepileptic drugs
Since 2020 Full Professor of Epileptology, Bielefeld University, Medical School

MAIN SCIENTIFIC and CLINICAL INTERESTS
o Immune-mediated brain disorders, mainly antibody-associated encephalitides and Rasmussen encephalitis
o Determination of neural antibodies
o Presurgical epilepsy diagnostics and surgical treatment of epilepsy
o Cognitive neuroscience in the context of epileptology

MEMBERSHIP and FUNCTIONS
o Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epileptologie (German Society for Epileptology)
o Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie (German Society for Neurology)
o Deutsche Gesellschaft für klinische Neurophysiologie und funktionelle Bildgebung (German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging)
o American Epilepsy Society
o Deutsche Gesellschaft für Liquordiagnostik und Klinische Neurochemie e.V. (German Society for CSF diagnostics and Clinical Neurochemistry)

AD HOC REVIEWER FOR
o Annals of Neurology
o Brain
o Epilepsia
o Lancet Neurology
o and several others

AWARDS
o Sobek-Nachwuchspreis (Neuroimmunology/Multiple sclerosis Junior award) 2001
o Alfred-Hauptmann-Preis (Epileptology award) 2001