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Peter P. Pramstaller

Peter P. Pramstaller

Head of Institute
Institute for Biomedicine

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Peter P. Pramstaller is a clinical neurologist, biomedical researcher, and academic leader with more than two decades of international experience in neurology, neurogenetics, and precision health research. His career reflects a distinctive combination of clinical expertise, scientific leadership, and a commitment to innovation, balancing global excellence with local relevance.

As Founding Director of the Institute for Biomedicine (IfB) at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen, he continues to shape an internationally recognized institute for translational biomedical research with a strong focus on advancing precision health.

After completing his medical degree at the University of Innsbruck, Dr. Pramstaller trained in clinical neurology at the Universities of Verona and Heidelberg and specialized in movement disorders at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London. He obtained his habilitation in Neurology at the University of Lübeck, Germany.

Upon returning to South Tyrol, he founded and directed for more than a decade one of Italy’s largest outpatient clinics for Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, and initiated several large-scale studies that have shaped the region’s biomedical research landscape. These include the Neuroepidemiology Project South Tyrol (NEPT-Study), the GenNova Health Care Program (MICROS-Study), and the Cooperative Health Research in South Tyrol (CHRIS-Study), one of Europe’s most advanced precision health population cohorts.

Beyond his clinical and scientific work, Dr. Pramstaller is an advocate for reimagining medicine and healthcare. He emphasizes the importance of leadership shaped from within the medical profession, by physicians who unite scientific insight, patient care, and responsibility for the future of medicine. He has authored two books on medical leadership (Rescue the Doctor and Rettet die Medizin) and cocreated the cross-media project Reimagine Medicine with the German Neurological Society and Beetz Brothers Film Production.


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Metrics (Google Scholar, Jan 2026): Citations 149415, h-index 118


Publications in Leadership in Medicine and Helathcare

Rettet die Medizin: Wie Ärzte das Ruder wieder selbst in die Hand nehmen können. Mit einem Geleitwort von Fredmund Malik

Rescue the Doctor: What Doctors Urgently Need to Know About the New World of Health Care

Doctors need lessons in management

What if I could become the doctor I always wanted to be?

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