Specialities:
Senior Physician ar the Department of Internal Medicine and Pneumology, Head of the General Outpatient Clinic, Special Asthma Clinic, and the Pulmonary Function Lab
Klinik Floridsdorf, Vienna
Specialist in Respiratory Medicine
Specialist in Internal Medicine
Diploma in Sports Medicine
Diploma in Emergency Medicine
Languages: German (native), English (C1), Spanish (A2)
"Medicine is the art of teaching people how to live without a doctor." (Hippokrates, 4th century BC)
Previous Positions at the Hospital:
2017-2020 | Senior Physician at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine II, Clinical Department for Pneumology, AKH Vienna |
2013-2017 | Specialist at the 2nd Medical Department with Pneumology, Klinik Ottakring, Vienna |
2005-2017 | Training as a Specialist in Pulmonary Diseases (AKH Vienna, Klinik Ottakring): |
2003-2013 | Training as a Specialist in Internal Medicine (AKH Vienna, Klinik Ottakring): |
Resarch and Teaching:
2014-2015 | Research Fellow at the Asthma Institut des University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers, Pittsburgh, USA |
2009-2010 | Research Fellow at the Transplant Center des Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA |
Seit 2016 | Lecturer at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna |
Seit 2008 | Lecturer and thesis supervisor at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna |
2015-2017 | Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA |
2002 | Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland |
1997 | Tutor for Inorganic Chemistry at the Technical University (TU) Vienne, Vienna |
Publications | Over 40 original papers, reviews, and letters in peer-reviewed journals, Hirsch index 22 |
Grants and Scholarships | 2015: Breath Pennsylvania - Asthma and Autoimmune Disease |
Activities in Professional Societies:
European Respiratory Society (ERS) | Memaber since 2006 |
Austrian Sociery of Pneumology (ASP/ÖGP) | Member since 2006 |
Member of other Professional Societies | American Thoracic Society (ATS), Austrian Society of Internal and General Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (ÖGIAIN), Austrian Society of Internal Medicine (ÖGIM), European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI), Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI), Austrian Society for Alpine and High Altitude Medicine (ÖGAHM) |
Studies and Furhter Trainings:
2015-2017 | International Masters for Health Leadership (EQUIS and AACSB accredited) at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Master thesis: "Cost Analysis of Community-Acquired Pneumonia from the Hospital Perspective in Vienna, Austria” |
2004 | Training as an Emergency Medical Technician, Johanniter Unfallhilfe Vienna |
1996-2002 | Human Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna |
1992-1998 | echnical Chemistry (Organic Chemistry and Technology) at the Technical University of Vienna. |
1999 | Certified Hydrotherapist and Massage Therapist, Kuranstalt Theresienbad, Vienna |