MICHAEL JOANNIDIS, MD
Associate Professor in Medicine
Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Medical University InnsbruckUniversitätsklinik für Innere Medizin
Anichstrasse, Innsbruck AUSTRIA

Education:
1979-1986 Medical school: Leopold-Franzens Universität, Innsbruck, Austria

Postdoc positions:
1986 -1989 Research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Physiology,
University of Innsbruck

Medical occupation:
1989 - 1995 Residency for Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Innsbruck, Dept. Medicine
1995 - 2003 Attending physician at the medical intensive care unit and emergency room of the University Hospital of Innsbruck, Dept. Medicine.
1998 Associate Professor in Medicine
2003 - current Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit, Medical University Innsbruck

Fellowships:
1992 -1994 Renal fellowship at the Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, USA (Erwin-Schrödinger project # J0674-MED)

Specialization:
1997 Nephrology
2000 Intensive Care Medicine
2003 Cardiology

Executive memberships:
1995- current Austrian Society of Nephrology (Board member)
2001- current Secretary of the Austrian Society of General Intensive Care Medicine
2002- current Deputy of the section Metabolism, Endocrinology, Nutrition and Nephrology of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

Research:
Pathophysiology of Acute Renal Failure
Extracorporeal purification techniques
Treatment of Acute respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Sepsis