Uwe Janssens

Uwe Janssens (* 1960 in Düsseldorf ) is a German doctor, specialist in internal medicine and, since January 2019, president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine eV (DIVI). Since January 2005 he has been chief physician at the Clinic for Internal Medicine and Cardiology at St. Antonius Hospital in Eschweiler .

Janssens studied human medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 1979 to 1986 and then worked as an assistant doctor in the medical clinic of the Bethesda Hospital in Mönchengladbach . As part of his continuing education, he moved to the University Clinic in Aachen in 1992, where he worked as a senior physician from 1995 and from 2001 as senior physician in the internal-cardiological intensive care unit. He was recognized as a specialist in internal medicine in 1994, the sub-field cardiology in 1997. His habilitation took place in 2000. From 2003 to 2004 Janssens was chief physician at the department for cardiology, pulmonology and internal intensive care medicine at the Caritas hospital in Bad Mergentheim .

From 2006 to 2008 Janssens was President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN). He has been Secretary General of the company since 2014.

Janssens is married and has two sons.

Publications

Gastric tonometry: studies on in vitro and in vivo validation in intensive care patients with cardiovascular disease, 2002
Chapter on heparin-induced thrombocytopenia in the 2006 Intensive Care Yearbook

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personal data
SURNAME	Janssens, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German medic
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf