Three DZL Researchers in the New Board of the DGP

Three scientists from the German Center for Lung Research (DZL) are members of the new board of the German Respiratory Society (DGP).

Professor Dr. Martin Witzenrath has been elected Vice President of the DGP. He is the Director of the Department of Pneumology, Respiratory Medicine, and Intensive Care at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and a member of the Medical Research Board of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Witzenrath's research focuses on pulmonary infections, acute respiratory failure, and pulmonary hypertension. Within the DZL, he is also one of the three scientific coordinators for the disease area Pneumonia and Acute Lung Injury.

Professor Dr. Thomas Bahmer, a DZL researcher at the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (Campus Kiel) at the DZL site ARCN, has taken on the role of General Secretary of the DGP. He is a specialist in internal medicine and pneumology, has worked at several academic institutions, and led the population-based COVIDOM study on the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 as well as the ALLIANCE asthma cohort of the DZL. He is currently practicing as a pneumologist in Hamburg.

Professor Dr. Antje Prasse, Chief Physician of the Department of Pneumology at the University Hospital Basel and Professor of Pneumology at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel, remains a member of the DGP Board. She is also Deputy Chair of the DGP Program Commission, which advises the board on scientific and professional matters. Prasse is a DZL researcher at the Hannover Medical School (DZL site BREATH).

The DGP is the largest medical society for pneumology in Germany, with approximately 5,000 members. It is committed to advancing pneumological care, publishing guidelines and scientific recommendations, organizing the annual DGP congress, and offering a broad range of continuing education programs through the DGP Academy.

The DZL congratulates its researchers and all other elected members and wishes the new DGP board much success in the tasks ahead.

Source: DGP Press Release