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Richard Crevenna re-elected President of the Austrian Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

MedUni Vienna oncology rehabilitation expert heads up specialist society
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(Vienna, 26 September 2024) Richard Crevenna, Head of MedUni Vienna's Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine, has been re-elected President of the Austrian Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (ÖGMPR). Crevenna previously headed the specialist society from 2016 to 2018.

The team from MedUni Vienna's Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine won various awards at the society's annual conference. Crevenna himself won the 1st poster prize, while his colleague Timothy Hasenöhrl won the 3rd poster prize.

About the person
Richard Crevenna is a specialist in physical medicine and general rehabilitation and Head of the Department of Physical Medicine, Rehabilitation and Occupational Medicine at MedUni Vienna. He is also an occupational and organizational physician, geriatrician and interdisciplinary pain physician. His clinical and scientific focus is on the interdisciplinary and multi-professional treatment of functional disorders in oncology patients and oncological prevention and rehabilitation. For several years, there has been a special outpatient clinic for oncological rehabilitation and a tumor board for oncological rehabilitation under the umbrella of the Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (CCC), as well as the CCC platform “CCC-SMSCR” (Side Effects Management, Supportive Care & Rehabilitation) and the platform for research into oncological rehabilitative principles, GEORG for short.

Crevenna is Head of the Competence Center for Occupational Safety and Health Maintenance (CCAG) at University Hospital Vienna and Deputy Head of the Comprehensive Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders (CCMSD) at MedUni Vienna and University Hospital Vienna. He is President-elect of the Austrian Pain Society and President of the cancer REHA platform “GEORG” and the Austrian Lymph League. He is also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the European Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine. He has been President of the “Living with Cancer” initiative since March 2024.

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