Course Director

Clemens AIGNER
Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery
MedUni Vienna / University Hospital Vienna

Alberto BENAZZO
Department of Thoracic Surgery
MedUni Vienna/University Hospital Vienna

Stefan SCHWARZ
Department of Thoracic Surgery
MedUni Vienna/University Hospital Vienna

Thomas SCHWEIGER
Department of Thoracic Surgery
MedUni Vienna/University Hospital Vienna

Alexis SLAMA
Department of Thoracic Surgery
MedUni Vienna/University Hospital Vienna

Paulo CARDOSO
Faculty of Medicine
University of Sao Paulo
Brazil

Laurens CEULEMANS
UZ Leuven
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplantation
Belgium

Maja ERCEGOVAC
Faculty of Medicine
University of Belgrad
Serbia

Pisana FERRARI
Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension (AfPH)
Italy

Julien FESSLER
New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
NY, US

Andreas GÜNTHER
Universitätsklinikum Gießen
Germany

Felix HERTH
Thoraxklinik Heidelberg
Germany

Shaf KESHAVJEE
Toronto General Hospital
Canada

Robert MONTGOMERY
NYU Langone Transplant Institute
NY, US

Didier SCHNEITER
Universitäts Spital Zürich
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Switzerland

Mark J SCHULTZ
University of Amsterdam
Laboratory of Intensive Care Medicine
Netherlands

Claus Franz VOGELMEIER
The University Hospital of Giessen and Marburg
Clinic for Pulmonology
Germany

Doris-Maria DENK-LINNERT
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Head Division of Phoniatrics and Speech Language Therapy

Peter FAYBIK
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine
and Pain Medicine
Division of General Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Christian GERGES
Department of Medicine II
Division of Cardiology

Daniela GOMPELMANN
Department of Medicine II
Division of Pulmonology

Caroline HUTTER

Marco IDZKO
Department of Medicine II
Head Division of Pulmonology

Peter JAKSCH
Department of Thoracic Surgery

Ursula JANTSCH-WATZINGER
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine
and Pain Medicine
Division of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia
and Intensive Care Medicine

Walter KLEPETKO
Professor Emeritus

György LANG
Department of Thoracic Surgery

Irene LANG
Department of Medicine II
Division of Cardiology

Bernhard MOSER
Department of Thoracic Surgery

Edith NACHBAUR
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Division of Pulmonology, Allergology and Endocrinology

Helmut PROSCH
Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy
Division of General and Paediatric Radiology

Stefan SCHALLER
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine
and Pain Medicine
Head Division of General Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine

Gerald SCHLAGER
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Division of Neonatology, Intensive Care Medicine and Neuropediatrics

Thomas STAUDINGER
Department of Medicine I
Head of intensive care unit 13i2

Zsolt SZEPFALUSI
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Division of Pulmonology, Allergology and Endocrinology

Shahrokh TAGHAVI
Department of Thoracic Surgery

Edda TSCHERNKO
Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine
and Pain Medicine
Head Division of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia
and Intensive Care Medicine

Alena ADARBEHOVA
Alliance for Pulmonary Hypertension (AfPH) Austria