✕ Luis Jorge Jacinto, MD PM&R senior consultant, working at Centro de Medicina de Reabilitação de Alcoitão -Portugal, since 1996.
Clinical lead of the Gait and Movement Laboratory as well as of the Botulinum Toxin Clinic since 2000.
Director of a 68 beds adult neuro-rehabilitation service, since 2009.
Involved in research, lecturing and peer training, nationally and internationally, in topics such as: stroke, TBI, neurorehabilitation, spasticity, botulinum toxin, movement and gait analysis, goal-oriented teamwork, patient-centered goals, outcomes in neurorehabilitation.
Collaborates in University-based under-graduate and post-graduate courses.
Investigator/co-investigator/expert scientific advisory experience in several international scientific/educational/peer-mentoring projects and scientific studies/clinical trials.
Author/Co-author of scientific papers and posters published in reference journals and reference worldwide congresses/scientific meetings (more than 200).
Author/co-author of book chapters on spasticity management, gait analysis in neurologic disorders and in lower limb amputees.
Associate editor/reviewer for the journals Frontiers in Neurology and Toxicon.
Member of the Board of directors of the INA – International Neurotoxins Association.
President of SIBRehab – Sociedad Iberica de Biomecánica en Rehabilitación.
Member the following Scientific Societies: Portuguese Society of PM&R, ESPRM, WFNR, EFNR, CANOSC and ISPRM (member of the Spasticity SIG).
Founder Member of the Steering Comittees of the following international educational programs: TOXNET, Ixcellence Network, MUSICA.

Since more than 20 years Professor Wissel has managed an out-patient facility which is taking care of more than 1000 patient-visits per year, mainly Botulinumtoxin treatment in neurorehabilitation and movement disorders, named Neurology and Psychosomatic at Wittenbergplatz in the center of Berlin, Germany.

He studied medicine and did his doctoral thesis at Free University in Berlin, his residency at Charité-University Medicine Berlin. As consultant he moved to Austria and was part of the neurological faculty of the University in Innsbruck and did a fellowship at Baylor College in Houston, Texas, specializing in neurorehabilitation, movement disorders, and botulinum neurotoxin therapy. He completed postdoctoral thesis (venia legendi) in neurology at Innsbruck University in 2000, on “The use of Botulinum Toxin in Movement Disorders” and became Professor of the Neurological Clinic of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Since 2002 Prof. Jörg Wissel was twice for more than 12 years director of departments of Neurorehabilitation in Germany: Neurorehabilitation and Physical Therapy at Vivantes Clinic Spandau in Berlin and the Rehabilitation Hospital, Beelitz Heilstätten, near Potsdam.

Professor Wissel has authored more than 150 original publications in peer-reviewed journals and received in 2024 the German Rehabilitation Award from the German Neurological and Neurorehabilitation Society. Prof. Wissel is president elect and member of the Board of Directors of the International Neurotoxin Association (INA) and was local host of Toxins2024 in Berlin and is chairman of the Spasticity Study Group of the Movement Disorder Society (MDS). He is honorary board member of the German Neurorehabilitation Society and Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Professor Wissel has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Physician (FRCP) since 2010.

Prof. Wissel is a co-founder and member of Child & Brain GmbH, a company that is engaged in education of multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams that use botulinum toxin therapy. He has also developed Muscle Ultrasound Course, an open-source app, which is used by more than five thousand botulinum toxin injectors worldwide to learn about ultrasound guidance in injecting deep-seated/overlapping muscles and he is also co-founder and medical director of AIHeal24 GmbH, a company that is engaged in AI and medicine, specialized in video-based movement feedback systems for re-education training in dystonic and spastic movement disorders.

Prof. Wissel is married, living in Potsdam, Germany and the father of two adult children.