Rektorin Andrea Kurz - Foto: Helmut Lunghammer

Biography

Andrea Kurz

Internationally renowned scientist Andrea Kurz graduated with a medical degree from the Medical University of Vienna, where she also completed her residency in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine and finished her habilitation. Over the course of her professional career, she has held numerous management positions in universities and hospitals, for example Director of the Division of Clinical Research at Washington University and Chair of Anesthesiology at Bern University Hospital. Kurz was Chair of the Department of General Anesthesiology at the renowned Cleveland Clinic (USA), where she was also Vice-chair of Outcomes Research at its Anesthesiology Institute. For nearly 25 years, she has conducted high-level clinical research and published more than 250 scientific articles in renowned journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

In portrait (only in German)

Andrea Kurz in an ORF Portrait (only in German)

Contact

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