The University Hospital
Prof. Dr. med. Katharina Feil
Senior Physician, Deputy Medical Director of the Central Emergency Department and Neurological Intensive Care Medicine
MD, MHBA
Specialist in neurology
Additional qualification in intensive care medicine
Additional qualification in clinical acute and emergency medicine
Additional qualification in emergency medicine
Additional qualification in palliative medicine
ABS expert
Transplantation officer, hygiene officer, transfusion officer, ABS officer
Contact
Phone number: 07071 29-61753
Fax number: 07071/29-25377
E-mail address: katharina.feil@uni-tuebingen.de
Clinic / Institute / Center
Clinical focus
- Neurological acute and intensive care medicine
- Stroke treatment
- Additional qualification in intensive care medicine
- Emergency medicine/ emergency room
- Additional qualification in clinical acute and emergency medicine
- Additional title emergency medicine
- Additional qualification in palliative medicine
- MHBA
- Megacode Trainer (ACLS)
- Certificate in Medical Didactics of the Bavarian Universities: Advanced level
- Specialist genetic counseling
- Dizziness and balance disorders
- Neurosonography: Degum Certificate Level I
- ABS expert
Scientific activity
- Neurological intensive care medicine: big data, AI in neurological intensive care medicine, acute treatment of stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage, neuroenhancement in disorders of consciousness, brain network disorders, drug trials (amantadine, zolpidem, TMS)
- Habilitation on "Improving the diagnosis of vertigo syndromes and therapy of cerebellar vertigo disorders" (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Director: Prof. Dr. med. Marianne Dieterich, FANA, FEAN)
- Cerebellar oculomotor disorders, treatment options for cerebellar diseases, "cerebellar vertigo", treatment of downbeat nystagmus (chlorzoxazone, 4-aminopyridine), cerebellar ataxia (acetyl-DL-leucine)
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Stroke treatment (focus on lysis and thrombectomy)
Imaging selection for lysis therapy - Diagnostics and therapy for patients with strokes of undetermined cause: Catch-up-ESUS: register study on the treatment of patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source, focus on atrial fibrillation detection and implantable heart monitors (so-called event recorders), patients with persistent foramen ovale (PFO)
- Aphasia Study: Follow-Up in Aphasia Caused by Acute Stroke in a Prospective, Randomized, Clinical, and Experimental Controlled Noninvasive Study With an iPad-Based App (Neolexon®): Study Protocol of the Lexi Study
- Network medicine, stroke networks, treatment of acute stroke patients as part of the Neurovascular Network Southwest Bavaria (NEVAS)
- National and international collaborations (German Stroke Registry/ GSR, SITS, TRISP)
Current research projects / third-party funding
- AmaNtadine for NeuroenhancEment in acute patients Study - A prospective pilot proof of concept phas IIb study in Intensive and intermediate care uni patients (ANNES) (AKT 496-0-0)
Education & professional career
- seit 04/2025Adjunct professorship
- seit 2024ABS representative
- seit 2024Transplant representative
- seit 2023Deputy Head of Neurological Intensive Care Medicine
- seit 2022Deputy Head of ZNA
- seit 2021Hygiene officer
- seit 2021Transfusion officer
- 2019-2021Studied MHBA (Master of Health Business Administration), FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, topic of Master's thesis: Importance of telemedicine in emergency medicine (grade 1.3)
- seit 2020Senior physician, neurology with a focus on neurovascular diseases, UKT
- 2019Habilitation on "Improving the diagnosis of vertigo syndromes and therapy of cerebellar vertigo disorders" (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Director: Prof. Dr. med. Marianne Dieterich, FANA, FEAN)
- 2019Specialist in neurology, Bavarian Medical Association
- 09/2011-10/2020Research associate and assistant physician at the Neurological Clinic and Polyclinic and at the German Center for Dizziness and Balance Disorders-DSGZ, University Hospital of Munich
- 2012Doctorate on the topic: Lung transplants considering different preservation solutions, influence of lung preservation on the results (Cardiac Surgery Clinic and Polyclinic, LMU Munich)
- 02/2011-08/2011Assistant doctor/ Clinic Itzehoe, Clinic for Neurology (Academic Teaching Hospital UKE Hamburg)
- 2010License to practice medicine
- 2009Neurology Tertial / Practical Year: McMaster University Hamilton/ Canada (clinic for neurometabolic and neuromuscular disease)
- 2004-2010Study of human medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich
Prizes & Awards
- Participant in the Mentoring and Training (MuT) program
- Candidate for funding from the Runnebaum Foundation
- Funding obtained for the Lexi study
- ANIM Poster Prize 2017
- Congress scholarship EAN 2016
- Congress Scholarship EAN 2015
- BMBF funding Acetyl-DL-Leucine in Cerebellar Ataxia/ ALCAT study (funding code 01KG1422, together with Prof. Michael Strupp)
- Winner of the Dossenberger Medal 2004
- AKF funding (funding code AKF 496-0-0)
Publications
Events / Lectures
- Elective subject Neurological Intensive Care Medicine
- Neurology seminar (https://www2.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/lehre/simed/xlogin.asp)
- Stroke Nurse Course Tübingen