Laura Hofner studied medicine at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) and started her residency at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in 2024. For her MD thesis, she investigated the management of depressive disorders in primary care at the Department of General Practice in Würzburg. During her studies she was funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Max Weber Program. As a clinician scientist in Prof Heesen’s research team, she transfers the group’s expertise in evidence-based medicine, patient information and shared decision-making to stroke patients.
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