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Dr. med. Silke Biethahn

Neurology FMH

Dr Med Silke Biethahn Neurologie Fmh

Dr. med. Silke Biethahn is an FMH-qualified neurologist and recognized specialist in epilepsy and cephalalgia.

Dr. med. Silke Biethahn studied medicine in Göttingen, Copenhagen and London. She completed her neurologist training at Schildautal-Kliniken Seesen (Germany), at Kantonsspital Aarau and at University Hospital Zurich. She then completed her specialist training in epileptology at University Medical Center Freiburg in Breisgau. From 2009 to 2017, she was senior physician at Kantonsspital Aarau. Most recently, she received the additional distinction of mbF (“with special function”) in that role. She was Director of the center for special epilepsy diagnostics in collaboration with the Department of Neurology at University Hospital Basel and was in charge of intraoperative neuromonitoring and cephalalgia consultations.

Dr. Biethahn is a lecturer for the Swiss Society for Clinical Neurophysiology (SGKN) and Swiss Association for the Study of Pain (SGSS). She is President of the Neurology, Neurosurgery and Neuroradiology chapter of the Aargau Medical Association and member of the European Academy of Neurology’s (EAN) expert panel on epilepsy and a board member of the Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Ärzten für Menschen mit geistiger und mehrfacher Behinderung (SAGB).

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2017 – present
Director NeuroCentre Aarau, consulting physician at Hirslanden Klinik Aarau
2015 – 2017
Senior physician with special function (mbF), Neurology Clinic, Kantonsspital Aarau
2009 – 2015
Senior physician, Department of Neurology, Kantonspital Aarau
2007 – 2009
Specialist, Department of Epileptology, University Hospital Freiburg i.B., Germany
2006 – 2007
Assistant physician, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich
2005 – 2006
Assistant physician, Department of Neurology, Kantonspital Aarau
2000 – 2005
Assistant Physician, Department of Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Asklepios Kliniken Schildautal, Seesen, Germany

2007
Specialist in neurology, Berlin Chamber of Physicians
2006
SGKN certificate of competence in electroencephalography (EEG)
2001
Dissertation: “Der JAK/STAT-Signalweg in der AML: Proteinexpression im Vergleich zur normalen Granulopoese und Auswirkungen des JAK-Inhibitors AG490 auf das Proliferationsverhalten von AML-Zellinien.” University of Göttingen
2000
Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London
1999
Department of Hematology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
1994 – 1997
Department of Neurology, University of Natal, South Africa
1993 – 2000
Human Medicine, University of Göttingen, Germany

  • European Academy of Neurology, Epilepsy Subspeciality Scientific Panel
  • Therapy committee of Swiss Headache Society
  • Board member of the Schweizerische Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Ärzten für Menschen mit geistiger und mehrfacher Behinderung (SAGB)
  • Swiss Society for Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Swiss League Against Epilepsy

  • German
  • English
  • French
  • Danish

Dr. med. Silke Biethahn regularly gives lectures on of the subjects of epilepsy and cephalalgia and is the author of many scientific publications.