Gregor Brössner

Gregor Brössner serves as Deputy Director of the University Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, holding the rank of Associate Professor of Neurology. A specialist in neurology, intensive care neurology, and pain medicine, he has led the outpatient clinic for head and facial pain since 2007 and the stroke unit since 2019. His clinical expertise encompasses facial pain, headache, migraine, stroke, and comprehensive pain management.

He completed his medical education at the Medical University of Innsbruck.

Brössner's research pioneers innovative migraine prevention therapies and normobaric hypoxia as a human migraine model. His leadership drives international multicenter studies translating laboratory findings into clinical applications for headache disorders and facial pain. This work bridges neurology, pain medicine, and stroke care with emphasis on therapeutic development.

His publications appear in high-impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Neurology, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, Critical Care Medicine, and Stroke and Cephalalgia.

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He directs two critical clinical units: the head and facial pain outpatient clinic and the stroke unit, where his teams conduct international research while delivering specialized patient care in headache neurology and acute stroke management.