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Horst OLSCHEWSKI, MD, PhD

Characterization of the vascular phenotype in COPD: Are there gender differences?

Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonology, Medical University of Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 15, A-8036 Graz;
phone: +43-316-385 80631, fax: +43-316-385 13578,  e-mail
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ORCID-ID: 0000-0002-2834-7466
Research areas:
  Pulmonary hypertension, COPD, lung cancer, imaging, pulmonary artery, vasodilators, reverse remodelling
2002–2004 Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Justus Liebig University Gieß
Career history:
2005–present Full Professor and Director of the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz
2002, 2008 Board certifications in Intensive Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases
2000 Habilitation in Pulmonology
1994, 1999 Board certifications in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology
1988–1997 Resident and Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Pulmonology, Justus Liebig University Hospital Gieß
1986 PhD thesis in Physiology, Justus Liebig University Gieß.
1985–1988 Research Fellow, Physiological Institute of the Medical Faculty, Justus Liebig University Gieß
1978–1984 Study of Human Medicine, MD, Justus Liebig University Gieß, Germany
Career-related activities (5 most important):
2010 Co-founder of the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz
2001–2007 Member of the Scientific Leadership Counsel of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, USA
1998–2010 International Steering Committee member of the AIR, TRIUMPH and ARIES studies
1998–2018 Delegate of the 2nd WHO Conference on Primary Pulmonary Hypertension in Evian, France 1998, and further of the respective conferences in Venice, 2003, Dana Point, 2008, Nice, 2013 and Nice, 2018
1996 Design and performance of a German multicenter study with inhaled iloprost for the treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension (investigator IND)
Major honours and awards (3 most important):
2016 Honorary Membership of the Hungarian Respiratory Society
2000 PHeV grant as Visiting Clinician at US Centers Of Excellence for pulmonary hypertension
1987 Carl-Oelemann-Award for the best Doctoral Thesis, State of Hessen, Germany
Patents:
2017 Patent for non-invasive PH diagnostics by means of biomarkers
2016 Patent for non-invasive PH diagnostics by means of impedance cardiography
2015 Patent for non-invasive PH diagnostics by means of dynamic CT
2007 Patent for non-invasive measurement of pulmonary arterial pressure by means of MRI
2004 Patent for a novel therapy for pulmonary hypertension