| honorary positions |
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| 2009 - 2010 | President-elect German Neurological Society |
| 2009 | Honorary Doctor Sechenov Medical Academy Moskow |
| 2008 - | Liaison Professor of the German National Academic Foundation, Philipps-University Marburg |
| 2007 - 2009 | President of the German Parkinson Society |
| 2007 - 2009 | President of the European Section – International Movement Disorder Society |
| 2005 - 2006 | Vice-President of the European Section – International Movement Disorder Society |
| 2003 - 2006 | Vice-President of the German Parkinson Society |
| 2003 - 2008 | Chair: German Guideline Committee for diagnosis and therapy of Parkinson’s disease |
| 2001 - 2005 | Speaker EuroPa – European network for research, diagnosis and therapy of Parkinson’s disease |
| since 2003 | Speaker of the German Parkinson Study Group (GPS) – Network for clinical multicenter studies of Parkinson syndromes |
| since 2002 | Member of the Board: Telematik platform for medical research |
| since 1999 | Speaker of all competence networks for medicine in Germany |
| since 1999 | Speaker of the BMBF funded "Competence Network Parkinson" |
| since 1998 | Advisor: German Huntington Association |
| since 1991 | Advisor: German "Restless Legs Syndrome" Society Advisor: German Wilson Society |
| since 1987 | Advisor: German Parkinson Association e.V. (Patient organisation) |
| Memberships (selection) | |
| American Academy of Neurology | |
| Work group of neurological intensive medicine (ANIM) | |
| German society of clinical neurophysiology | |
| German society of neurogenetics | |
| German society of neurology (DGN) | |
| German society of sleep research | |
| German Parkinson society | |
| European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) | |
| European Neurological Society (ENS) | |
| European Sleep Research Society | |
| Brain liga for research, detection and treatment of mental disorders | |
| International Basal Ganglia Society | |
| New York Academy of Science (NYAS) | |
| International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) | |
| Society for Neuroscience Germany | |
| Society for Neuroscience (USA) | |
| The Movement Disorder Society | |
| World Association of Sleep Medicine (WASM) | |
| Awards | |
| 1971 - 1978 | scholarship holder of the "Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes" |
| 1986 | "Parkinson-Frosst-Preis" - awarded |
| 1987 - 1990 | Heisenberg-scholarship of the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft": Clinical and basic studies in basal ganglia diseases" |
| 2004 | Dingebauer-Price for Parkinson Research of the German Neurological Society – together with Prof. G. Deuschl, Kiel, Germany |
Prof. Dr. W. H. Oertel | honorary positions
