Petra   Klinge    M.D., Ph.D. Phone: (401) 455-1749 Fax: (401) 455-1292 Office: 55 Claverick Street Suite 100 Providence,  RI   02903 Directions

About Petra   Klinge    M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Petra M. Klinge received her medical degree (MD) at the University in Kiel, Germany in 1993. After completing her neurosurgical residency at Hannover Medical School, Germany in 2002, Dr. Klinge held the position of Senior Physician and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, Germany, where she joined Madjid Samii, M.D., a world-renowned and internationally acknowledged neurosurgeon. At that time, Dr. Klinge was appointed a teaching professor and in 2008 was awarded the full academic rank of an Associate Professor at the Hannover Medical School. Dr. Klinge joined the Neurosurgery Foundation and The Alpert Medical School of Brown University as an attending neurosurgeon in May 2009. She will continue her research activities in collaboration with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at Brown University. Her clinical research will focus on the unifying concept of dementias, particularly Alzheimer-related pathology in hydrocephalus of aging patients. As a novel approach, she aims at establishing surgical therapies, e.g. stem-cell treatment, for treatment of stroke and other neurodegenerative diseases. Dr. Klinge is an internationally renowned clinician for the diagnosis and neurosurgical treatment of patients with hydrocephalus and Alzheimer’s disease. Pediatric hydrocephalus disorders also comprise another large part of her clinical practice. From her clinical work at the International Neuroscience Institute in Hannover, she has developed outstanding expertise in the diagnosis and management of the most difficult and rare diseases of the nervous system and the spine. Dr. Klinge was recently elected President of the International Society for Hydrocephalus and CSF Disorders. Her practice includes patients with diseases of the spine, as well as both benign and malignant tumors of the brain and spine.

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Professional Papers: Multiplicity of Cerebrospinal Fluid Functions: New Challenges in Health and Disease Conrad E. Johanson; John A. Duncan; Petra M. Klinge; Edward G. Stopa and Gerald PD. Silverberg. Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2008 Modified calcium accumulation after controlled cortical impact under cyclosporin A treatment: a (45)Ca autoradiographic study. Mirzayan MJ; Klinge PM; Ude S; Hotop A; Samii M; Brinker T; Korkmaz Z; Meyer GJ; Knapp WH; Samii A. Neurol Res. 2008 Correlates of local cerebral blood flow (CBF) in normal pressure hydrocephalus patients before and after shunting-A retrospective analysis of [(15)O]H(2)O PET-CBF studies in 65 patients. Klinge PM; Brooks DJ; Samii A; Weckesser E; van den Hoff J; Fricke H; Brinker T; Knapp WH; Berding G. Neurol Neurosurg 2008