Head of the Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language
Hospital St. John of God
Austria
Johannes Fellinger, MD PD (consultant for Neurology/Neuropediatrics and Psychiatry) is head of the Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language (Hospital of St. John of God Linz/Austria) and of the Research Institute for Developmental Medicine (Johannes Kepler University Linz/Austria). He set up, e.g. health centres for deaf people and therapeutic communities for deaf people with multiple disabilities, health services for children and adults with developmental disorders (especially autism).
Johannes Fellinger is lecturer at the Medical University Vienna and at the medical faculty of the Johannes Kepler University Linz.
2009-2011 he assisted the World Federation of the Deaf as Expert on Mental Health and 2013-2017 as co-ordinator for health issues. He is also executive member of the European Society for Mental Health and Deafness and of the European Association for Mental Health and Intellectual Disability.
His scientific interests are mental health and health care of people with developmental and sensory disorders.
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Head of the Institute for Neurology of Senses and Language at Hospital St. John of God
Austria