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MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD

Prof. Dr. Rolf Rossaint

BORN: 26.06.1958, MARRIED

Vita

SCHOOL EDUCATION AND STUDIES

1968 – 1977 / St. Bernhard High School, Graduation: BACCALAUREATE

1977 – 1983 / STUDY of human medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

1983 / APPROBATION as a physician, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

1983 / DISSERTATION, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Subject: The influence of dehydrobenzperidol on the efferent cardiac sympathetic nervous system in comparison with the effects of hypoxia and blood volume changes in awake and anesthetized dogs

1993 / HABILITATION, Faculty of Medicine, FU Berlin Subject: Effects of mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure on sodium-water balance

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1983 – 1988 / SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYEE (Resident) at the Center for Anesthesiology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany

1987 / SPECIALIZED in anesthesiology

1988 – 1997 / SCIENTIFIC EMPLOYEE (Senior Physician) at the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine at the Rudolf Virchow University Hospital of the FU Berlin

1997 / Appointment as UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR and simultaneous assumption of the Chair of Anesthesiology, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University

1998 – 2000 / DEAN OF STUDIES

1999 – 2000 / MEDICAL DIRECTOR

2001 – 2002 / DEAN OF STUDIES from Feb. 2001 – Feb. 2002

2002 – 2014 / PRORECTOR of the RWTH Aachen University

2015 – 2020 / SPEAKER of the profile area Medical Science & Technology of the RWTH

2010 until today / MEMBER of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences

2012 – 2020 / REVIEW BOARD MEMBER DFG

2007 – 2018 / COUNTRY CHAIRMAN North Rhine of the DGAI

2018 and 2021 / VICE-PRESIDENT of the DGAI

2019 and 2020 / PRESIDENT of the DGAI