Biography
Current Position
Medical Director, Department of Neurology and Neurological post acute care, Tirol-Kliniken GmbH, LKH Hochzirl-Natters, Zirl, Austria
Working Experience
- 2012-2019 - Head of ward Senior Physician; Dept. Neurology and Neurological post acute care at LKH Hochzirl-Natters, Standort Hochzirl (Tirol-Kliniken GmbH), 6170 Zirl, Austria
- 2007-2012 - Senior physician; Dept. Neurology and Neurological post acute care at LKH Hochzirl-Natters, Standort Hochzirl (Tirol-Kliniken GmbH), 6170 Zirl, Austria
- 2005-2007 - Assistant Physician in Neurology and Psychiatry at LKI Innsbruck (Tirol-Kliniken GmbH), Anichstr. 36, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- 2004-2004 - Ward Physician at Sanatorium Kreuzschwestern / Hochrum, Austria
- 2000-2003 - Ward physician at LKH Hochzirl-Natters, Standort Hochzirl, 6170 Zirl, Austria
- 1995-1999 - Internship General Practitioner at District Hospital, Freistadt Austria and University Hospital Innsbruck, Austria
Medical/Scientific Collaborations
- Since 2014
- Participation in organisation and implementation of the multicentre PHADER-study (A prospective, single-arm, observational clinical follow-up study on the application of pharyngeal electrical stimulation for treatment of neurogenic Dysphagia: a European Registry), a state Hospital, Hochzirl, dept. for neurology, Austria
- Formation, installation and management of on outpatient – until for multiple sclerosis patients in neurorehabilitation
- Since 2011
- Sonographic controlled and navigated injections with Botulinumtoxin for the treatment of severe spasticity
- Since 2008
- Participation in the special field “therapy with intrathecal Baclofen (ITB)”, focus on “autonomic dysfunction”, at State Hospital, dept. for neurology, Hochzirl, Austria
- Endoscopic swallowing examination and swallowing diagnostic in regular business, tracheal cannula management; elective and bronchoscopic extraction in emergency cases
- Since 2007
- Participation (talk, patient demonstration) in the workshop “European Continuing Medical Training – Intrathecal Baclofen (ECMT-ITB)”, twice a year, at State Hospital, dept. for neurology, Hochzirl, Austria
- Since 2006
- Management of patients with implanted medication pumps and intrathecal catheters for the application of intrathecally administered drugs against spasticity an pain
- Introduction and application of the method of evaluation of the efficacy of the treatment with intrathecal Baclofen (ITB) with a temporary external catheter and external pump
Lectures
Lecturer of the Institute for Sport Science, University for Medicine, Innsbruck (AUSTRIA), since 2014
Area of Interest
- Intrathecal Baclofen
- Treatment of Spasticity
- Evaluation/treatment of swallowing disturbances
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Motor control
- Neurorehabilitation
- Robotic Treatment
- Neurophysiology
- Neuropharmacology
Additional Qualifications
- Management seminar “employee coaching for executives” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany
- Management seminar “leadership and self-image” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany
- Management seminar “conflict clarification” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany
- Management seminar “speaking together, the high art of conversation Techniques” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany
- Management seminar “basics of communication psychology for executives” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany
- Education medicine didactics “didactic methods”
- Education medicine didactics “pedagogical approaches”
- Education medicine didactics “auditing”
- Education medicine didactics “ethics competence”
- Education medicine didactics “patient based teaching and learning”
- Education medicine didactics “start in apprenticeship”
- Education medicine didactics “gender medicine”
- Education medicine didactics “presentation rhetoric”
- Certificate “MyGait expert” (Ottobock comp.), electrostimulation of the lower extremities
- Management seminar “communication and leading” Schulz von Thun, Hamburg, Germany Education medicine didactics “rhetoric presentation”
- Certificate EPLS provider, ERC (effective until 06/2016)
- EEG-certificate
- EMG-certificate
- Workshop “regional anestehsia in theory and practice” and “interventional pain therapy”
Scientific Publications
- 03/2019
Intrathecal baclofen device meeting a ventriculoperetoneal shunt and vice versa: approach to management. (in preparation)
Pucks-Faes E, MD; Halbmayer LM, Hitzenberger G, Matzak H, Saltuari L.
Submittend in “Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair (NNR)” - 02/2019
Intrathecal Baclofen in hereditary spastic paraparesis
Pucks-Faes E, Hitzenberger G, Matzak H, Mayr A, Fava E, Genelin E, Saltuari L.
In press “Frontiers in Neurology” - 10/2018
Intrathecal Baclofen Trial Before Device Implantation: 12-Year Experience with Continuous Administration
Elke Pucks-Faes, MD,a,* Heinrich Matzak, MD,a,* Gabriel Hitzenberger, MD,a
Eleonora Genelin, MD,a Lucas-Michael Halbmayer, MD,a Elena Fava, MD,b
Josef Fritz, PhD,b Leopold Saltuari, MD, MSca,c
October 2018 Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.09.124 - 11/2018
Intrathecal baclofen in paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity: Impact on oral treatment
Pucks-Faes E, Hitzenberger G, Matzak H, Verrienti G, Schauer R, Saltuari L.
Brain Behav. 2018 Nov; 8(11):e01124. doi: 10.1002/brb3.1124. Epub 2018 Sep 28.PMID:30264872 - 03/2018
Eleven years' experience with Intrathecal Baclofen - Complications, risk factors
Pucks-Faes E, Hitzenberger G, Matzak H, Fava E, Verrienti G, Laimer I, Fritz J, Saltuari L. Brain Behav. 2018 Mar 30; 8(5):e00965. doi: 10.1002/brb3.965. eCollection 2018 May. PMID: 29761017