Visiting and Honorary Professorships

Department for Biomedical Research

Univ.-Prof. Dott. Ing Emanuele Gatti

Emanuelle Gatti has been involved in the restructuring of the Professional MBA Biotech, Pharma and MedTech Management over the past years and is a lecturer there himself. Furthermore, Gatti supports the cooperation between the University for Continuing Education Krems and the University of Modena in research and teaching.

Department for Health Sciences, Medicine and Research

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Catharina Chiari, MSc

Prof. Chiari is a senior physician at the University Clinic for Orthopaedics Vienna (MedUni) and Deputy Head of the Clinical Department for Orthopaedics at the University Clinic for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery. Prof. Chiari has been associated with the University of Continuing Education Krems for a long time. As module leader, she is responsible for the organisation and programming of the module ‘Limb Corrections, Paediatric Orthopaedics and Traumatology’ in the Advanced Orthopaedics and Traumatology (MSc) and lectures in this module, as well as in various other modules at the Centre for Health Sciences and Medicine.

PD Dr. Jochen Paul

Jochen Paul is a specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery. He is a senior physician at the Rennbahnklinik in CH-Muttenz. Paul was a member of the EBM Commission of the DGOU (German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery) from 2012 - 2020 and is a member of numerous specialist societies. Jochen Paul has established a foreign module of the ULG ‘Sports Medicine, MSc’ in Basel, which includes medical aspects and technical features of special sports - football (including sports organisation, rules, sports facility construction, etc.) as well as aspects of special groups of people (senior citizens, disabled people).

Prim. Assoc.-Prof. PD Dr. Karin Pieber

As of 1 January 2020, Prim. Pieber was appointed Head of the Clinical Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at St. Pölten University Hospital. She completed her doctorate at the Medical University of Vienna. Prim. Pieber is a member of the board of the Society for Orthopaedic-Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS). Pieber will use her expertise to strengthen teaching and research at the Department of Health Sciences, Medicine and Research. She is appointed as a reviewer in selected journals and has been organising part of the Sports Medicine Basic Course (OTP) of the Lower Austrian Medical Association since 2021.

Univ.- Prof. Dr. Heinz Redl

From 1998 to 2019, Heinz Redl was the former director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology (LBI Trauma) and is now a Senior postdoctoral fellow there. Redl is a long-time collaborator in various research projects in both the Department for Health Sciences, Medicine and Research and the Department for Biomedical Research. In addition, Redl supports teaching and contributes his expertise to the Advanced Orthopedics and Traumatology master's program and as a lecturer in the Regenerative Medicine PhD program.

Dr. Gabriele Schlimper

Gabriele Schlimper is a long-standing lecturer for the university course Management of Social Institutions - Focus on Children's and Youth Institutions. As Managing Director of the "Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband Berlin" (Parity Welfare Association Berlin), she is significantly involved in furthering the cooperation as well as the joint development and offering of university courses.

Prof. Dr. Romain Seil

Romain Seil has been working as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg since 2004. His clinical focus is on orthopaedic sports medicine and knee endoprosthetics. Prof. Seil is still responsible for the conception of the foreign block of the ULG ‘Sports Medicine, MSc’ in Luxembourg as module leader, his networking through numerous activities in important national and international societies as well as the International Olympic Committee are an advantage for the university courses of the Centre for Health Sciences and Medicine.

Assoz.-Prof. PD Dr. Annelie-Martina Weinberg, MBA, MSc

Annelie-Martina Weinberg studied human medicine in Cologne and specialized in surgery and trauma surgery. This was followed by her habilitation in Hanover in 1993. Since 2010, she has been an Associate Professor at the Medical University of Graz and is a specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery.

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wirnsberger

Gerhard Wirnsberger completed his medical studies at the Medical Faculty of the Karl-Franzens University in Graz and completed his residency in pathology, internal medicine, nephrology and geriatrics. From 2013 to 2022 he was head of the nephrogeriatric outpatient clinic at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine in Graz and is a reviewer for various journals.

Prim. Univ.-Doz. Dr. Florian Gottsauner-Wolf

Florian Gottsauner-Wolf has been awarded an honorary professorship by the University for Continuing Education Krems for the years 2020 - 2024. The physician works at the University Hospitals Krems as well as St. Pölten, whose clinical departments for orthopedics he heads. Since 2008, Gottsauner-Wolf has been associated with the University for Continuing Education Krems. He played a key role in supporting the Center for Regenerative Medicine in establishing the Cartilage Competence Center and contributed to the design of course curricula in the field of traumatology and orthopedics. Furthermore, Gottsauner-Wolf is engaged in research and teaching at the Department for Health Sciences, Medicine and Research.