Wolfram Windisch

• Mechanical ventilation
• Respiratory physiology
• COPD
• Several original contributions and review articles published in peer-reviewed journals

Prof. Dr Christian Karagiannidis

Prof Dr Kurt Rasche

SHORT CV AND POSITIONS

1990 - 1996
Medical School, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Germany

1996
Thesis: "Quality of life in home ventilation" - University of Göttingen, Germany, Professor CP Criée

1997 - 2003
Internship, residency, and fellowship at the Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Professor Müller-Quernheim.

1998
Medical licence (full licence to practice medicine) August 1st, 1998, Hannover

2003
Professional training - Specialisation: Internal Medicine

2004 - 03/2011
Consultant Internship at the Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Freiburg, Professor Müller-Quernheim

2005
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification (Habilitation): Title: "Diagnostic and treatment of chronic ventilatory insufficiency - University Hospital Freiburg, Germany, Professor Müller-Quernheim

2007
Professional training - Specialisation: Pneumology
Professional training - Intensive Care Medicine

2011
Professional training - Specialisation: Allergology

Since 2008
Assistant Professor

since04/2011
Head of Department Pneumology, Clinic of Cologne, University of Witten/Herdecke

SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIPS, CLINICAL EMPHASES AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Memberships

• German Interdisciplinary Society of Home Mechanical Ventilation
• European Respiratory Society
• German Society of Pneumology and Ventilation
• German Airway League

Leading positions

• Chair of the German Interdisciplinary Society of Home Mechanical Ventilation
• Chair of the group noninvasive ventilatory support of the European Respiratory Society
• Chair of the section Intensive Care Medicine of the German Society of Pneumology and Ventilation
• Board member of the German Airway League

Guidelines

• Principle author: Guidelines for Non-Invasive and Invasive Mechanical Ventilation for Treatment of Chronic Respiratory Failure. Published by the German Society for Pneumology and Ventilation(DGP)
• Contributing author: Guidelines for Non-invasive mechanical ventilation as treatment of acute respiratory failure. Published by the German Society for Pneumology and Ventilation

Clinical emphases

• Intensive Care Medicine and mechanical Ventilation
• Bronchoscopy
• Respiratory Failure
• COPD and interstitial lung diseases
• Lung Transplantation