Alexander M. HIRSCHL
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Medical University Vienna
General Hospital, Währinger Gürtel 18-20/5 P
A-1090 Vienna/Austria
phone ++43-1-40400-5154
fax ++43-1-40400-5228
E-mail: alexander.hirschl@meduniwien.ac.at
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born 12 06 1952 Vienna, Austria
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wife (Michaela), two sons Lukas (born 1991) and Jakob (born 1993)
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1970 - 1977 studies of medicine, School of Medicine, University Vienna
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graduation in medicine 1977, University Vienna
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graduation in hygiene and microbiology 1987, University Vienna
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Universitätsdozent (senior lecturer) since 1987
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Tit. ao. Universitätsprofessor (associate prof.) since 1994
Current position:
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deputy director of the Department of Clinical Microbiology, General Hospital Vienna
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member of several domestic and international societies and working parties (microbiology and gastroenterology)
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founding member of the European Helicobacter pylori Study Group in 1987; general secretary and main organizer of the XIth International Workshop of Gastroduodenal Pathology and Helicobacter pylori, Budapest 1998; treasurer of the EHSG since 2001; president of the EHSG 2003/2004 and organizer of the XVII International Workshop of the EHSG, Vienna 2004
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fields of research: Helicobacter pylori (diagnosis, pathogenesis, epidemiology), Chlamydia pneumoniae (diagnosis, pathogenesis), bacterial resistance and molecular diagnostic methods
Publications:
approx. 250 (articles, reviews, book chapters and abstracts)
Present address:
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Medical University Vienna
General Hospital, Währinger Gürtel 18-20/5 P
A-1090 Vienna/Austria
