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Hans Otto Lüders (Born 18 October 1940 in Santiago, Chile) is an American (USA).Neurologist/Epileptologist with a Chilean and German background currently working as a Professor at University Hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He has made "significant contributions to Clinical Neurology and particularly to Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology", such as the "use of chronically implanted, large plates of subdural electrodes in the presurgical evaluation" of epilepsy patients, "mapping studies with subdural electrodes [that] led to the discovery of a number of cortical eloquent areas that had not been described before" and "developed a new classification of epileptic seizures".

Hans Otto Lüders
Born	18 October 1940 Santiago, Chile
Nationality	Chilean, German, American (USA)
Occupation	Physician
Title	M.D., Ph.D.
Spouse	Ingrid Lüders Kirchgaessner
Children	3 children
Parent(s)	Jürgen and Lily Lüders
Relatives	Brothers: Rolf and Carl Lüders

Education

From 1959 to 1965 Hans O. Lüders received a Bachelor's degree in Biology and his license in Medicine at the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. From 1967 to 1971 he received his Doctor of Medicine Science (Neurology) at the Neurological Institute in Kyushu University in Japan. From 1971 to 1975 he received his Ph.D. in Neurophysiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (University of Minnesota) in Rochester, Minnesota.

Professional experience

At the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, NY, USA, Hans O. Lüders was an Assistant Professor in Clinical Neurology in the Department of Neurology from 1975 to 1976. Also at Columbia University, he became an Associate Professor of Neurology from 1976 to 1978. Hans then moved to Cleveland, Ohio and became the Head of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1978 to 1990. In 1990 he became the Chairman and Professor of the Department of Neurology at the Cleveland Clinic. From 2007 to 2011 Hans Lüders worked as the Director of the Epilepsy Center at University Hospitals in Cleveland. He is currently working as a Professor of Neurology at University Hospitals.

Hans Otto Lüders has been a Clinical Professor and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology and Medicine at a variety of Universities including Pontificia Catolica Chile, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine in Ohio and the College of Medicine in Pennsylvania and has written over 300 papers, mainly about epilepsy and neurophysiology.

Specialty boards

-American Board of Qualifications in Electroencephalography (December 1973)

-American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (June 1985)

Honors and awards

In 2001 Prof. Lüders was chosen by the Joint Executive Committee of the IBE/ILAE for the Ambassador for Epilepsy Award. He also received the Hans Berger Award in 2010, the Willian G. Lenox Award in 2014 and the Herbert H. Jaspar Award in 2017.

Professional societies

Hans O. Lüders is in several different professional societies including the American Academy of Neurology (Fellow), the American EEG Society (Active Member; Secretary, 1987–1988), the American Epilepsy Society (Active Member), the American Medical Association (Active Member), the American Neurological Association (Active Member), the Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN) (Member 1990–2006), the German EEG Society (Corresponding Member), the German Epilepsy Society (Corresponding Member), the Mayo Medical Alumni Association, the National Association of Epilepsy Centers (Member at Large), the Swiss Epilepsy Society (Corresponding Member) and the Swiss League Against Epilepsy (Member)

Publications

1. Lüders H. Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery.Informa Healthcare, 2008, ISBN 978-1841845760

2. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Atlas und Klassifikation der Electroenzephalographie [Atlas and Classification of Electroencephalography]. First Japanese Language Edition ed. Tokyo: Igaku-Shoin, Ltd., 2005, ISBN 978-3929126075

3. Lüders H. Deep Brain Stimulation and Epilepsy London, England: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004,ISBN 978-1841842592

4. Lüders H, Comair Y. Epilepsy Surgery, 2 ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2001, ISBN 978-0781714426

5. Lüders H. Epilepsy: Comprehensive Review and Case Discussions, London: Blackwell Science Inc, 2001, ISBN 978-0781714426

6. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Atlas and Classification of Electroencephalography, English Translation. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 2000, ISBN 978-0721665542

7. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Atlas of Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes – English translation from German. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 2001

8. Dinner D, Lüders H. Epilepsy and Sleep: Physiological and Clinical Relationships, ISBN 978-0122167706

9. Rosenow F, Lüders H. Presurgical Assessment of the Epilepsies with Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004, ISBN 978-0444510464

10. Hirsch E, Andermann F, Chauvel P, Engel J, Jr. Lopes da Silva F, Luders H. Generalized Seizures: From Clinical Phenomenology to underlying systems and networks, Surrey, United Kindom: John Libbey Eurotext, 2006, ISBN 978-2742006212

11. Levin K, Lüders H. Comprehensive Clinical Neurophysiology, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 2000, ISBN 978-0721676562

12. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Epileptic Seizures - Pathophysiology and Clinical Semiology, New York: Churchill Livingstone, 2000, ISBN 978-0443089596

13. Kotagal P, Lüders H. The Epilepsies - Etiologies and Prevention, Academic Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0124221505

14. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Atlas und Video epileptischer Anfalle und Syndrome,[Atlas and Video of Epileptic Seizures and Syndromes]. First Japanese Language edition ed. Tokyo: Igaku-Shoin Ltd., 1997, ISBN 978-3933185273

15. Fahn S, Hallett M, Lüders H, Marsden C. Advances in Neurology: Negative Motor Phenomena, Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1995, ISBN 978-0781702645

16. Lüders H, Noachtar S. Atlas und Klassifikation der Elektroenzephalographie, Ciba Geigy Verlag Wehr, 1994, ISBN 9783929126075

17. Lüders H. Epilepsy Surgery, Raven Press, 1992, ISBN 9780881678215

18. Lüders H. Advanced Evoked Potentials, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989, ISBN 978-1468490091