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.

Management

• 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 Managing Director
• Prof. Dr. Anja Ehrhardt, Head of the Department of Human Medicine
• 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. Svenja Hartwig, Representative for Equality and Diversity of the UW/H
• Maximilian Späth, student representative for human medicine
• N. N., student representative for nursing science
• Luna Ehrenschneider, student representative for Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Anton Heinen, 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 assistant
• Prof. Dr. Claudia Hagedorn, Professor (non-clinical), Department of Human Medicine, Senate representative (professors)
• Annika Haupt, research assistant, Department of Human Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Markus Heiss, Professor (clinical), Department of Human Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppel, Professor (non-clinical), Department of Human Medicine and Vice Dean for Research
• Prof. Dr. Juraj Kukolja, Professor (clinical), Department of Human Medicine
• Manuela Malek, M. Sc., Research Assistant, Department of Nursing Science
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Metzing, Professor, Department of Nursing Science
• Prof. Dr. Johannes Michalak, Professor, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Prof. Dr. Andree Piwowarczyk, Professor, Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Jan Postberg, Professor (non-clinical), Department of Human Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Röer, Professor, Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Dr. Peter Schmidt, Research Associate, Department of Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Melchior Seyfarth, Professor (clinical), Department of Human Medicine
• Dr. Frank Tolsdorf, non-scientific assistant
• Prof. Dr. Klaus Weckbecker, Professor (non-clinical), Department of Human Medicine
• Robin Hegmann, Student Representative Human Medicine
• N. N., student representative in Nursing Science
• Lisa Settele, Student Representative Psychology and Psychotherapy
• William Dinges, student representative dentistry, oral and maxillofacial medicine

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

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. Insa Feinkohl, Chair of Methods and Applications of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology
• Prof. Dr. Patrick Haage, holder of the Chair of Clinical Radiology
• Prof. Dr. Margareta Halek, Dean of the Faculty of Health
• 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, Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic, Dortmund
• Prof. Dr. Anne Milek, Chair of Health Psychology
• Prof. Dr. Michael Paulussen, holder of the Chair of Pediatrics
• Prof. Dr. Marc D. Piroth, Chairman, Chair of Radiotherapy 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
Tel.: +49 2302 926-127
E-Mail: Heike.Korn@spam protectuni-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. Hagen Tronnier

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

Prof. Dr. Florian Kreppel

Members of the Research Commission

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Broska, holder of the Chair of Health Services Research
• Prof. Dr. Arndt Büssing, Chair of Medical Theory, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine
• Prof. Dr. Anja Ehrhardt, Chair of Virology and Microbiology
• Prof. Dr. Anton Friedmann, holder of the Chair of Periodontology
• Dr. Rene Geißen, Director of the Centre for Clinical Studies at Witten/Herdecke University

Since 2018, the Faculty of Health has had a network of academic staff (WiMi network), which pursues two goals: Firstly, the informal offer is intended to provide academic staff, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at the Faculty of Health with a platform to network with each other on research-relevant topics. On the other hand, the aim is to make it easier for new academic staff, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers to arrive and find their way around Witten/Herdecke University and the Faculty of Health.

Networking and interdisciplinary exchange are particularly important due to the wide variety of different research topics in the fields of nursing science, psychology/psychotherapy, human medicine and dentistry. We offer events to facilitate exchange between research assistants, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. Students who are interested in research-related topics are also cordially invited to attend.

Participate

The organizers of the WiMi network are always looking for more colleagues who are interested in helping to organize these events. If you are interested, please contact wimi-netzwerk@spam protectuni-wh.de.

Organizers of the WiMi network

M.Sc. Manuela Malek, Research assistant, Chair of Nursing Science
Tel.: +49 2302 926-3769
E-Mail: Manuela.Malek@spam protectuni-wh.de

Priv.-Doz. Dr. Peter Schmidt, Senior physician, Chair of Disability-Oriented Dentistry
Tel.: +49 2302 926-686
E-Mail: Peter.Schmidt@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.