(Vienna, 28 March 2023) The new University Advisory Board of MedUni Vienna elected Peter Husslein as its fifth member during the constituent meeting on 27 March 2023. Eva Dichand, who already held this office in the previous term, was unanimously elected Chairperson of the central governing body for the 2023-2028 term. Thomas Zeltner is again the vice-chair.
Media Manager Eva Dichand is a graduated economist and manages the daily newspaper "Heute". Peter Husslein is a Professor for Gynaecology and was Chief of the University Clinic for Gynaecology of MedUni Vienna at the University Hospital Vienna for many years. Thomas Zeltner is the President of the WHO foundation (Geneva) and was the Head of the Swiss Federal Office for Health from 1991-2009. The other members of the University Council are the former Vienna Patent Solicitor Sigrid Pilz and Christoph Huber, former Director of the III. Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, co-founder of BioNTech and Honorary Member of the Austria Academy of Sciences.
The newly constituted University Council emphasises the outstanding significance of science and research for all of society: "All attempts of the renunciation of sciences or the denigration of researchers must be opposed. Politicians in particular are called upon to refrain from granting space or even support the spread of fake news or the devaluation of scientific findings."
Together with the Rectorate and the Senate, the University Council forms the governing body of the University. The term of office of the University Council is five years.
Members:
Dr. Eva Dichand
Media Manager
Nominated by the Senate of the MedUni Vienna.
Em. o. Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Christoph Huber
Haematologist, Immunologist, Oncologist, former Director of the III Medical Clinic and Polyclinic of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Nominated by the Senate of the MedUni Vienna
Em o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Univ. Peter Husslein
Former Head of the University Clinic for Gynaecology of the MedUni Vienna / University Hospital Vienna
Elected by the members of the University Council
Dr. Sigrid Pilz
Educationalist and psychologist, former patient advocate of the Federal Province of Vienna
Nominated by the Federal Government
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Zeltner
President of the WHO Foundation (Geneva) and former Head of the Federal Office for Health in Switzerland
Nominated by the Federal Government