Thomas Platz was educated at the medical school in Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany, and in 1988 at the Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, received his Dr. med. degree in 1990. He started his residency in neurology in Berlin, Germany, in 1989. In 1995, he received the Feodor-Lynen Fellowship (AvH foundation) to stay at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK. In 1997, he received a Dipl. in epidem. and biostats from the McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, and became board certified Neurologist and Clinical Geriatrist in Berlin, Germany. In 2002, he received his habilitation degree (Dr. med. habil.) in neurorehabilitation at the Charite Berlin, Germany. In 2006, he became the Head of Department for neurohabilitation at the BDH Klinik Greifswald, Germany. Since 2009, he had been acting as a Medical Director of that hospital and as Head of the Department of both its Neurorehabilitation Centre and Spinal Cord Injury Unit, and received a personal professorshipfor neurorehabilitation at the University Greifswald. Since 10.2018 he acts as Medical Director Research and Head, Institute for neurorehabilitation and evidence basis, BDH Klinik Greifswald, An-Institute of the University Greifswald; in addition, he leads the neurorehabilitation research group at the University Medical Centre Greifswald. He is president of the German society for neurorehabilitation (DGNR). For the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR) he acts as head of the Education Committee and head of the Special Interest Group Clinical Pathways.

Neurobiology of stroke recovery.- Clinical pathways in stroke rehabilitation.- Goal setting with ICF* and multidisciplinary team approach in stroke rehabilitation.- Disorders of consciousness.- Airway and ventilation management.- Recovery of swallowing.- Arm rehabilitation.- Mobility after stroke - Re-learning to walk.- Post-stroke spasticity.- Rehabilitation of Communication Disorders.- Treating neurovisual deficits and spatial neglect.- Cognition, emotion and fatigue post stroke.- Driving after stroke.- Health care settings for rehabilitation after stroke