The Faculty Assembly is made up of all members and affiliates of the Faculty. It serves to provide information and form opinions on important matters and is convened and chaired by the Dean at least once a year. All members and affiliates of the faculty are invited by e-mail.

The Faculty Council is the highest decision-making body of the Faculty. It is elected by the faculty members and chaired by the Dean.

Head

    Prof. Dr. Margareta Halek, Dean
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Zimmer, Dean

Members without voting rights

    Prof. Dr. Margareta Halek, Dean and Head of the Department of Nursing Science
    Prof. Dr. Stefan Zimmer, Dean and Head of the Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
    Prof. Dr. Marzellus Hofmann, Vice Dean for Teaching
    Dr. Heike Schütter, Commercial Director
    Prof. Dr. Thomas Ostermann, Head of the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy
    Prof. Dr. Hagen Bachmann, Senate Representative (Professors)
    Katja Frost, Senate representative (WMA)
    Maximilian Bockemühl, student senate representative
    Dr. Lewis Johnston, Deputy Representative for Equality and Diversity at UW/H
    Junior Bogba, student representative for human medicine
    N. N., student representative for nursing science
    Kiara Höpner, student representative for Psychology and Psychotherapy
    Lisa Aminy, student representative for Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine

Members with voting rights

    Theresa Apel, M. Sc., Research Assistant, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy
    Prof. Dr. Bertil Bouillon, Professor (clinical), Department of Human Medicine
    Prof. Dr. Anton Friedmann, Professor, Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
    Celina Galuschka, non-scientific

The Senate is the highest academic decision-making body at Witten/Herdecke University. It is significantly involved in the strategic direction of the university in teaching, studies and research.

The Faculty of Health is represented in the Senate by

• Prof. Dr. Margareta Halek (by virtue of her office)
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Zimmer (by virtue of his office)
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Hagedorn (by election of the faculty)
• Prof. Dr. Hagen Bachmann (by election of the faculty)
• Katja Frost (by election of the faculty)
• Maximilian Bockemühl (by election of the faculty)

Contact in matters of Senate representation
Anke Lips, Dean's Office, Secretariat
Tel.: +49 2302 926-793
E-Mail: Anke.Lips@spam protectuni-wh.de

At the conference, the department chairs meet regularly with the dean and other representatives of important faculty institutions.

Speaker and representation

• Prof. Dr. Andree Piwowarczyk - Spokesperson
• Prof. Dr. Anton Friedmann - representative of the spokesperson
• Prof. Dr. Hans Jürgen Heppner - representative of the spokesperson

Contact to the Chairholders' Conference
Angela Hölscher, Secretariat
Tel.: + 49 2302 926-655
E-Mail: Angela.Hoelscher@spam protectuni-wh.de

The APL Commission is a committee of the Faculty Council. Its task is to implement the appointment regulations for the award of the title “Associate Professor” and the implementation regulations.

Members of the APL Commission

•     Prof. Dr. Markus Fleisch, holder of the Chair of Gynaecological Oncology
•     Prof. Dr. Patrick Haage, holder of the Chair of Clinical Radiology
•     Prof. Dr. Anke Haberkamp, Chair of Experimental Pathopsychology
•     Prof. Dr. Margareta Halek, Dean of the Faculty of Health
•     Prof. Dr. Silke Hofmann, holder of the Chair of Dermatology
•     Prof. Dr. Juraj Kukolja, holder of the Chair of Neurology
•     Prof. Dr. Hans Michael Kvasnicka, holder of the Chair of Pathology
•     Prof. Dr. Christian Lüring, Chairman, holder of the Chair of Orthopaedics
•     Prof. Dr. Michael Paulussen, holder of the Chair of Pediatrics
•     Prof. Dr. Marc D. Piroth, Chief Physician at the Clinic for Radiation Therapy and Radio-Oncology
•     Prof. Dr. Andreas Schulte, former holder of the Chair of Disability-Oriented Dentistry
•     Prof. Dr. Arasch Wafaisade, Chair of Sports Traumatology
•     Prof. Dr. Stefan Zimmer, Dean of the Faculty of Health
•     N. N., student representative
•     N. N., student representative

Contact the APL Commission
Heike Korn, Secretariat
Phone: +49 2302 926-127
E-Mail: Heike.Korn@uni-wh.de

The UW/H Ethics Committee is an independent association. Like all ethics committees, it is based on the revised Declaration of Helsinki of the World Medical Association of 1975. Its task is to assess research projects involving living beings from an ethical, legal and social perspective.

Board of the Ethics Committee

• Prof. Dr. Petra Thürmann
• Prof. Dr. Peter Gaidzik
• Prof. Dr. Ulrike Heinrich

Contact the Ethics Committee
Andrea Pleger
Tel.: +49 2302 926-740
E-Mail: Andrea.Pleger@spam protectuni-wh.de

The Vice Dean for Research, together with the departmental representatives, promotes and coordinates the activities of the chairs and other research institutions. He is supported in this by an interdepartmental research committee and the Research Funding Department, which carries out research controlling and provides administrative support for the faculty's internal funding programs.

Vice Dean for Research and Chairman

Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppel

Members of the Research Commission

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Brzoska
• Prof. Dr. Arndt Büssing
• Prof. Dr. Anja Ehrhardt
• Prof. Dr. Anton Friedmann
• Dr. René Geißen
• Prof. Claudia Hagedorn
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Stefan Haßfeld,
• PD Dr. Jerome Defosse
• Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppel (Vorsitz)
• Prof. Dr. Hans Kvasnicka,
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Metzing
• Prof. Dr. Anna Milek
• Prof. Jonas Park
• Jun.-Prof. PD Dr. Thomas Pfeiffer
• Prof. Sven Schmiedl
• Dr. Boris Schmitz
• Prof. Dr. Dominik Schneider
• Prof. Dr. Serge Thal
• PD Dr. Julia Wager
• Prof. Dr. Stefan Westermann
• Prof. Wolfram Windisch

The Faculty of Health established its network of research assistants (WiMi network) in 2018. The aim of the network is to provide research assistants, doctoral candidates, and postdoctoral researchers at the Faculty of Health with a platform for networking on research-related topics. 

Networking and interdisciplinary exchange are particularly important due to the wide variety of research topics in the fields of nursing science, psychology/psychotherapy, human medicine, and dentistry. Students who are interested in research-related topics are also welcome to join.

Contact

Dr. med. Dr. rer. medic. M.Sc.-Psych. Katharina Fetz, Project Manager, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM) 
Email: Katharina.Fetz@spam protectuni-wh.de

The student representatives of the departments of the Faculty of Health are represented in the student council. Here you will find information on the structure, organization, goals and tasks of student participation.

The Open Science Initiative of the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy aims to make a positive contribution to reproducibility and transparency in psychological research at the UW/H and beyond.

Further information and the members of the initiative can be found on the UW/H website.