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Primarily based at the Medical University in Innsbruck, I was trained in family medicine, clinical pharmacology, internal medicine and rheumatology. For rheumatology, which is my current main focus, I was also trained in a rehabilitation hospital in Badgastein specialised for rheumatology (as a resident with Prim. Tidl), in immunology at the rheumatology devision of MAYO clinic, Rochester, MN/US (as a research fellow with Prof. Weyand and Goronzy), at a vasculitis center in Bad Bramstedt, Germany (as visiting professor with Prof. Gross). Finally I organised the rheumatology section at the Elisabethen Hospital in Klagenfurt, Austria (as head of the department for internal medicine and geriatrics).
As clinician licensed in family medicine, internal medicine and rheumatology, my clinical research included case reports and clinical studies, especially in the fields of experimental haematology and rheumatology (including a pilot phase I/II trial on the safety of the purin synthesis inhibitor 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis - now licensed for hairy cell leukaemia and multiple sclerosis). Most recently, I investigated new imaging modalities (sonography and 18F-FDG-PET) and participated in the development of new international diagnostic criteria (for Polymyalgia rheumatica and Behcet's disease) and management recommendations in rheumatology (including polymyalgia rheumatica and cooperation with nurses in clinical rheumatology). At present, the project SolutionX adds the basis for clinical epidemiological studies on quality care and health management aspects of routine clinical work in an outpatient-setting for rheumatology.
In the laboratory, my research activities included projects in pharmacology (on aspects of the calcium channel in the group of Prof. Glossmann), experimental haematology (resulting in a patent on a new immunosuppressive drug effects by Prof. Konwalinka), and rheumatology (as a Schrödinger research fellow at the division of rheumatology at MAYO Clinic Rochester, MN/USA with Prof. Weyand and Prof. Goronzy, primarily on apoptotic features of pro-inflammatory T-cells). Back in Innsbruck I worked on prevalences and new characteristics of these T-cells in rheumatic diseases (alternative co-stimulatory pathways for T-helper cells lacking the CD28 surface molecule). The Austrian research fund FWF then sponsored a focus on osteo-immunological studies in mouse models on spondyloarthritis (data so far unpublished).
Teaching efforts include lectures and hands-on courses. A growing group of interested medical diploma students supports the clinical evaluation of the SolutionX dataset (with close to 1000 patients included between 9/2017 and 5/2019).
For postdoctoral education, I have organised the first hands-on courses on sonography for rheumatology in Austria since 2008. Ealier, I founded the Tyrolean rheumatology "Stammtisch" and the Rheumatology section of the Tirolern Medical Association. I also organised interdisciplinary congresses on general medical topics and workshops in rheumatology and informatics, the annual congresses of the Austrian Society of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation 2007-2010 as well as the biannual 13th International Congress on Behcet's Disease.
As a new position, since 2012 I am treasurer of the International Society of Behcet's Disease, and starting with the first conference after COVID-19 restrictions, I am elected as the president of the Society .
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCESno. 1 (2024): 541
Schmerz Nachrichtenpp.1-4, (2024)
DIAGNOSTICSno. 4 (2024): 446
HELIYONno. 4 (2024): e25844-e25844
JOURNAL FUR MINERALSTOFFWECHSEL & MUSKULOSKELETTALE ERKRANKUNGENno. 1 (2023): 17-23
Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)no. 9 (2023): 1018-1018
Zeitschrift für Rheumatologieno. 6 (2023): 532-534
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