Kurt Rasche

• Chronic lung diseases
• Pneumological intensive care medicine
• Pneumological oncology
• Respiratory medicine and weaning
• Sleep medicine

• LOA Eldar Ahmetovic
• LOA Ahmad Nazzal
• OA Maen Alzqoul
• OA Dr Josef Yayan

Specialist in internal medicine, pnuemology, intensive care medicine, allergology, sleep medicine

Medical training

1984
Full licence to practice medicine

1978 - 1984
Medical studies (WWU Münster)

1978
Higher education entrance qualification (Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium Bünde)

Appointment

2018-today
FG Head of Pneumology/Thoracic Surgery HELIOS

2018
Head of the DKG-certified lung cancer centre

2012 - 2018
Deputy Medical Director, HELIOS Medical Centre Wuppertal

2011 - 2017
Deputy Chairman of the Clinic Ethics Committee, HUKW Wuppertal

2010 - today
Director/Chief Physician of the Clinic for Pneumology, Allergology, Sleep and Respiratory Medicine, Bergisches Lungenzentrum, HELIOS Medical Centre Wuppertal

2001 - 2009
Chief Physician of the Centre for Internal Medicine - Focus on Pneumology, St. Antonius Clinics, Wuppertal

1997 - 2001
Ltd. senior physician at the Department of Pneumology, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, BG-Universitätskl.Bergmannsheil, RUB

1992 - 1997
Senior Physician, Bergmannsheil Bochum, RUB

1986 - 1992
Assistant doctor and academic staff at Bergmannshei Bochum RUB

1984 - 1986
Staff physician in the German Armed Forces

Specialist qualifications/appointments

2006
Additional training in sleep medicine

2004
Recognised as an infectiologist (DGI)

1997
Certificate of qualification in somnology (DGSM)

1996
Additional qualification in specialised intern. Intensive Care Medicine

1993
Additional specialisation in allergology

1993
Specialist qualification in pneumology

1991
Specialist in internal medicine

1988
Recognised as a paramedic

Scientific career

2014
Appointment as Professor of Pneumology at the UWH

2004
Appointment as associate professor of internal medicine at HUU Düsseldorf

2002
Appointment as Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at RUB

1996
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification in Internal Medicine (RUB Bochum)

1985
Doctoral studies (WWU Münster)

• Block internships in internal medicine
• PJ training in internal medicine

• COPD
• Sleep medicine

Current authorisation for further training (North Rhine Medical Association)

• Further training in internal medicine and pneumology (48+24 months)
• Additional training in intensive care medicine (18 months)
• Additional training in sleep medicine (18 months)
• Work for patient organisations/magazines
• Self-help group Lungenemphysem-COPD Germany (member of the scientific advisory board)
• Journal COPD & Asthma (member of the scientific advisory board)
• Sarcoidosis Network Germany (founding initiator of the Wuppertal chapter)

Memberships (current or former) in medical commissions

• Examination board of the ÄK NO (internal medicine, pneumology, sleep medicine)
• List of reviewers for occupational diseases (Rhineland-Westphalia State Association of Occupational Accident Insurers)
• Chairman of the quality commission "Diagnostics and therapy of sleep apnoea" (North Rhine Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians)
• Member of the AG Pneumonia of the QS-NRW

Memberships and functions in scientific associations/journals

• Professional Association of German Internists
• Professional association of pneumologists
  • Board member NRW
• German Society for Internal Medicine
  Former scientific secretary of the journal "Medizinische Klinik"
• German Society for Pneumology
• German Society for Lung and Respiratory Research
  1. Chairman 2007
• Member of the editorial board of the journal
  "Atemwegs- und Lungenkrankheiten"
• West German Society for Pneumology
  • Treasurer until 2018, Deputy Chairman 2019-2021
  • Conference President 2019
• German Interdisciplinary Society for Out-of-Hospital Ventilation (DIGAB)
  (formerly: Home and Long-Term Ventilation Working Group)
  • Founding member
  • Conference President 2004
• German Society for Sleep Research/Sleep Medicine
  • Regional head and reviewer for the North Rhine region for the sleep laboratory accreditation procedure
  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Somnologie"
  • Conference President 2007
• North Rhine-Westphalian Society for Sleep Medicine
  • Member of the board
• German Cancer Society
• German Society for Dental Sleep Medicine
• German-Turkish Medical Society
• European Respiratory Society
• European Sleep Research Society
• American Thoracic Society

Certifications

Sleep Laboratory

German Society for Sleep Research and Sleep Medicine (DGSM)

Lung cancer centre

German Cancer Society (DKG)

WeanNet: Weaning Centre

German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP)

German Interdisciplinary Society for Out-of-Hospital Respiratory Medicine (DIGAB)

Special public awards

• Focus doctors list "Germany's top doctors" for COPD/pulmonary emphysema, sleep medicine, lung cancer