Scientific Advisory Board

Giovanni Addolorato

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Italy

François Alesch
Medizinische Universität Wien
Ärztezentrum MedVienna

Austria

Main areas of research:
Stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, invasive pain therapy

Jeffrey Braithwaite
Macquarie University
Australian Institute of Health Innovation
Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science

Australia

Main areas of research:
Patient safety, quality of care, health systems, clinical governance, health management, health research, health policy, population health

Reinhard Busse

Technische Universität Berlin
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
Berlin School of Public Health

Germany

Main areas of research:
Health system research, health services research, health economics, health technology assessment

Richard Crevenna

Universitätsklinik für Physikalische Medizin
Rehabilitation und Arbeitsmedizin der MedUni Wien/AKH Wien

Austria

Main areas of research:
Oncology (interdisciplinary treatment of functional disorders or symptoms, rehabilitation)

Luca Crivelli

University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Università della Svizzera italiana
Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+)

Switzerland

Main areas of research:
Health policy, health insurance, social policy

Maria-Luisa Figueira

Universidade de Lisboa
Hospital de Santa Maria in Lissabon

Portugal

Main areas of research:
Clinical and experimental psychopathology and psychopharmacology

Heinz Gisslinger

Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin I, Medizinische Universität Wien
Privatklinik Josefstadt „Confraternität“, Wien

Austria

Main areas of research:
Chronic and acute myeloid leukemia, thrombophilia, multiple myeloma, polycythemia, osteomyelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, clinical significance of the CD95- and trail-mediated apoptosis signal transduction pathway

Unto Häkkinen

Research Professor (Health Economics)
Centre for Health and Social Economics (CHESS)
National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Finland

Research focus:
Health Economics

Christian Helmenstein

Industriellenvereinigung
Cognion Forschungsverbund (Economica, Resarch Studios Austria, RiskRe, SpEA SportsEconAustria, TwinEconomics u.a.)
Businesseurope Regional Policy Working Group

Austria, Germany, Slovakia

Research focus:
Economic policy

Markus Hengstschläger

Medizinische Universität Wien
Institut für Kinderwunsch, Wien
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Österreichischer Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung
Bioethikkommission

Austria

Main areas of research:
Basic research and routine diagnostics in medical genetics

Wilfried Ilias

Ordination Prim. Univ.Prof. Dr. Wilfried Ilias
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Neuraltherapie
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Suchtmedizin
ehem. Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Brüder Wien

Austria

Main areas of research:
Pain diagnostics and pain therapy, neural therapy, anesthesia, intensive care

Andreas Klein

Universität Wien
Ethik Consulting Klein GmbH

Austria

Research focus:
Ethics (in the fields of healthcare, medicine, new technologies and their ethical challenges in society and healthcare, digitalization, brain and behavioral research with ethical implications, freedom of will)

Ludwig Kramer

Ordination Gesund in Schönbrunn
Krankenhaus Hietzing

Austria

Focus of work:
Gastroenterology, Hepatology

Reinhard Krepler

Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz
ehem. AKH Wien

Austria

Focus of work:
Pathology, cytodiagnostics, human genetics

Rudolf Likar

Klinikum Klagenfurt

Austria

Main areas of work and research:
Anesthesia, intensive care, emergency medicine, pain therapy

Zeynep Or

Irdes – Institut de recherche et documentation en économie de la santé

France

Main areas of research:
Health care systems (performance, international comparison), financing of health care facilities, nursing

Katharina T. Paul

Universität Wien

Austria

Main areas of research:
Health Policy, Interpretative Policy Research, Regulation, Medicine and Biopolitics, Science and Technology Research

Werner E. Platz

Facharzt für Neurologie und Psychiatrie ITAA (RM)
Gesundheits- und Sozialzentrum Moabit, Berlin
Ärztekammer Berlin

Germany

Focus of work:
Neurology, Psychiatry, Forensic Psychiatry

Andrea Podczeck-Schweighofer

Sozialmedizinisches Zentrum Süd –
Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital mit Gottfried von Preyer’schem Kinderspital
Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien
Österreichische Kardiologische Gesellschaft

Austria

Focus of work:
Internal medicine, cardiology, gender cardiology, intensive care

Kurt Redlich

Ordination Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kurt Redlich
Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhügel

Austria

Focus of work:
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger

WIFO – Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung

Austria

Main areas of research:
Budget and tax policy, fiscal federalism

Peter C. Smith

University of York
em. Prof, Imperial College Business School

United Kingdom

Main areas of research:
Financing, efficiency and performance of health systems and public services

Hermann Toplak

Medizinische Universität Graz
EASO Collaborating Center for Obesity Management (EASO-COM)

Austria

Focus of work:
Internal medicine (endocrinology, metabolic diseases, diabetology)
Main areas of research: Obesity, nutrition, lipid metabolism

Siegfried Walch

MCI Management Center Innsbruck
Life Science Cluster Tyrol
Strategic Community Austria

Austria

Main areas of work:
Social and health management

Henriette Walter

Wahlärztin Univ.Prof. Dr. Henriette Walter (Psychiatrie und Psychotherapeutische Medizin, Psychotherapeutin (Hypnotherapie))
Medizinische Universität Wien (Leiterin Universitätslehrgang Medizinische Hypnose)

Austria

Focus of work:
Treatment of different forms of depression and anxiety disorders, treatment concepts, weaning and therapy of alcoholism, nicotine disease, hypnotherapy and communication, counseling for mobbing (in Ärztekammer Wien)

David N. Weisstub

International Academy of Law and Mental Health
International Academy of Medical Ethics and Public Health
Prof. Université de Montréal (retired)
ehem. Philippe Pinel Chair in Legal Psychiatry and Biomedical Ethics

Canada

Main areas of research:
Law and psychiatry, medical ethics

Rolf Ziesche

Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin II der MedUni Wien/AKH Wien

Austria

Focus of work:
Internal medicine (lung diseases)

Tomáš Zima

Karls-Universität – Medizinische Fakultät

Czech Republic

Main areas of research:
Oxidative stress, AGEs, experimental nephrology, organ damage by alcohol, metabolism, tumor markers, prenatal screening, laboratory management, accreditation