Prof. Thomas Meyer is a neurologist and is the Director of the ALS Outpatient Department of Charité & Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He has been working with ALS patients since 1991. Research visits have taken him to the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, to Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and to the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. He completed his neurological training at the Charité and at the University of Ulm. His doctoral and postdoctoral degrees were concerned with molecular-genetic issues in ALS. In 2002, he founded the ALS Outpatient Department at the Charité, which has developed into a specialized care and study center. He is co-founder of the care and research platform ?Ambulanzpartner= and author of numerous scientific publications on ALS.