Marek Sykora, MD, PhD, Prof.

Clinical focus

Neurologist and neurointensivist with a focus on stroke, neurocritical care, neurological emergencies and all other neurological disorders.

About me

I am a board-certified neurologist, neurointensivist and full professor of neurology with more than 20 years of clinical and academic experience. My current position is Director of Comprehensive Stroke Center at the Department of Neurology at St. John’s Hospital in Vienna, where I specialise in acute stroke care, neurocritical care but also in general neurology.

My training and academic background span several European institutions, including Comenius University Bratislava, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, University of Heidelberg and the Cambridge University. I also hold board certification in intensive care in neurology from Germany and a European Master in Stroke Medicine from University Krems, Austria.

Throughout my career I have focused on improving outcomes in patients with all types of acute brain injury, stroke, neurological emergencies and all other neurological disorders. I am an active member of national and international stroke and neurological societies and a Fellow of the European Stroke Organisation.

Accepted medical data

MRI, CT, blood test results, biopsy results

Experience and training

Experience

January 2013 – Today

Neurologist, Stroke Center, Department of Neurology, Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder, Vienna, Austria

January 2006 – December 2013

Neurologist, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

January 2003 – December 2006

Neurologist, I. Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

Education and training

August 2023

Professor (full), Neurology, Comenius University Bratislava

July 2021

Health Care Management Diploma, University Krems, Austria

August 2016

Professor (full), Neurocritical Care, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, Austria

March 2013

Habilitation, Privatdozent, University Hedidelberg, Germany

November 2013

MSc, European Master of Stroke Medicine, University Krems, Austria

April 2012

Board Certification, Intensive Care (Neurology), Germany

September 2008

PhD Program, Comenius Unversity Bratislava, Slovakia

February 2008

Board Certification, Neruology, Slovakia

Licensures and Memberships

Memberships

• European Stroke Organisation, Fellow status
• American Heart Association
• American Stroke Association
• Austrian Society for Stroke Research
• Austrian Society for Neurology
• Slovak Medical Society

Publications

• ResearchGate
• PubMed