CLAUS KRENN

Claus-Georg KRENN was born in Vienna, Austria in 1963, graduated in medicine in 1988 and specialized in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at the Medical University of Vienna.

He obtained his PhD title in 2001 for research in the field of “Dynamic liver function testing and intensive care measures after live transplantation” and is currently Professor of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine and head of one of the ICUs at the General Hospital Vienna / Austria – Medical University Vienna /Austria.

In 2008 he obtained a MBA degree at the Viennese University of Economics Research and teaching activities focus on sepsis, hemodynamic monitoring, liver dysfunction and failure, including transplantation and organ support, and respiratory failure (University of Uppsala/ Prof. G. Hedenstierna).

He is Board Member for Intensive Care of the Austrian Society of Anaesthesiology, Reanimation and Intensive Care Medicine (ÖGARI) and President of the Austrian Federation of Intensive Care Societies (FASIM).

He has published about 95 original articles and book chapters.