degrees

master degree ('Diplom') in medical informatics from the Universities of Heidelberg and Applied Sciences Heilbronn, Germany, in 1978

Ph.D. degree (Dr.rer.biol.hum.) from the Faculty for Theoretical Medicine, University of Ulm, Germany, in 1983

postdoctoral lecture qualification ('Habilitation') for medical informatics and statistics from the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, 1987

 

positions

1978 - 1984	research assistant, Institute for Medical Documentation, Statistics and Data Processing, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1984 - 1987	research assistant, Institute for Medical Statistics and Documentation, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
1987 - 1989	associate professor of medical informatics, Medical Faculty, University of Tuebingen, Germany
1989 - 2001	full professor of medical informatics, Medical Faculty, and director of the Department of Medical Informatics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
2001 - 2004	full professor of medical informatics at the University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT) at Innsbruck, later Hall, Austria, president of UMIT and director of the Institute of Health Information Systems
since 2004	full professor of medical informatics, Department of Computer Science, and director of the Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology (TU Braunschweig), Germany
since 2007	director of the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School
since 2008	adjunct faculty for medical informatics at Hannover Medical School

research fields

• health enabling technologies
  • development and investigation of methods for pervasive computing and the use of ubiquitously available information for prevention and early detection of diseases as well as the support for self-sufficient lifestyles for patients with diseases
  • development and investigation of active environments, sensor technology and mobile tools, as well as their adequate embedding in health information systems
  • sensor-enhanced health information systems for new ways of living and new ways of health care
• health information systems and management
  • transinstitutional (inter-organizational) information system architectures for co-operative, patient-centered, and shared care (‘eHealth’)
  • sustainable health information system architectures and information management principles in order to contribute to quality and efficiency of care and to the establishment of new health care services
  • strategic information management, IT-strategies for hospitals and for health care regions
• medical data management
  • electronic patient records for co-operative (e.g. regional) health care and for clinical and epidemiological research

Author and editor of more than 300 publications. Supervisor of more than 40 doctoral theses. Extensive number of third party funded projects.

educational fields

• information management, health information systems
• medical documentation
• curricula in medical Informatics / health informatics

Author of various text books. Lectures currently given at given at the University of Braunschweig and at the University of Amsterdam, formerly also (among others) at the Universities of Athens, Heidelberg, Heilbronn, and Prague

 

editorships (excerpt)

• Methods of Information in Medicine (editor, since 2001)
• IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (editor, 2001-2007)
• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (editorial board, since 1994)
• International Journal of Medical Informatics (editorial board, 1993-2003, 2008-2011)
  
  

scientific associations (excerpt)

• International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA): President (2007-2010); Vice-President
• (1999-2006); chairperson of Working Group Health and Medical Informatics Education (1995-2000)
• German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (gmds): member of the Board (1990-1995)
• German Association for Computer Science (GI): chairperson of the Medical Informatics Special Interest Group (1992-1995)

other activities (excerpt)

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Association): elected reviewer for medical informatics and biometry (1992-2000) and member of the Committee for Computing (1995-2001)
• chairperson or member of IT strategy boards of various hospitals, among others of the Heidelberg (1989-2001) and Erlangen University Medical Centers (1999-2001), of TILAK (2002-2004), of Braunschweig Medical Center (since 2005), and of Hannover Medical School (since 2007), as well as of the eHealth Board of the Lower Saxony Ministry for Economics, Labour and Transport (since 2009)
• advisory functions in science and economy, among others member of the Scientific Board of OFFIS – Institute for Information Technology, Oldenburg, Germany (1998-2006), chairperson of the Founding Council of UMIT (2000-2002), chairperson of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Braunschweig Informatics and Technology Center (since 2010), member of the International Advisory Board of the King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (since 2008), chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Establishment of the Department of Health Technology of Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus (since 2009)

honours (excerpt)

• Medal, Faculty for Mathematics and Physics, Charles University of Prague, Czech Republic (1995, 1999)
• International Associate, American College of Medical Informatics (1999)
• Honorary Professor, Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2002)
• Full Member, Class Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Braunschweig Scientific Society (2009)