(Vienna, Budapest, 22 November 2023) Oliver Kimberger, specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine at MedUni Vienna's Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine and Professor of Perioperative Information Management at MedUni Vienna, has taken up a visiting professorship at Semmelweis University in Budapest.
The visiting professorship is part of the cooperation between the anesthesiology and intensive care departments of the two universities in the area of teaching and simulation. In particular, there are ongoing research collaborations in the field of anesthesiology and intensive care data science and decision support algorithm development.
About the person
Oliver Kimberger holds a doctorate in anesthesiology, has been Professor of Perioperative Information Management since 2021 and is currently Deputy Head of MedUni Vienna's Department of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Medicine. Kimberger is interim Head of the Division of General Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, where he heads the Data Science Group, which is based at the Department and at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital Health and Patient Safety.
He completed a postgraduate course in statistics and biometrics at the University of Heidelberg (MSc) and an MBA in Health Care Management at MedUni Vienna. A study visit took him to the University Hospital Inselspital Bern (Switzerland) for two years.
Kimberger is a member of the Austrian Society for Anesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Care Medicine and the European Society of Anaesthesiology. His research focuses on topics such as microcirculation & fluid management; patient temperature management, big data, artificial intelligence, and the digital transformation of medicine.